Croatian airports bounce back last year
16.02.2023
Last year, a total of 9.78 million passengers boarded and disembarked planes at Croatian airports, which is an increase of 108.2 percent compared to the year 2021.
As usual, Zagreb airport had the highest passenger traffic last year, slightly more than 3.1 million, which is an increase of 123.4 percent compared to 2021.
In terms of the number of passengers, it is followed by Split Airport, which last year saw almost 2.9 million passengers pass through, which is an increase of 85.1 percent compared to the previous year, while Dubrovnik Airport, with 2.1 million passengers, achieved an increase of 133 percent.
More than a million passengers, or almost 1.1 million of them, passed through the Zadar airport last year, which is an annual increase of 116.4 percent.
Pula airport ranked fifth in the number of passengers last year with slightly more than 383 thousand passengers and an increase of 46.6 percent compared to 2021, while Rijeka airport recorded the highest percentage increase with slightly more than 160 thousand passengers, for 206 percent.
In terms of the number of passengers, December of last year came close to the traffic of December 2019, given that there were 0.8 percent fewer passengers last year than in the last month of the pre-pandemic 2019.
In December, Zagreb Airport achieved the highest passenger traffic - 246 thousand passengers or 37.6 percent more compared to December 2021, followed by Split airport with 36 thousand passengers, which is an increase of 52.8 percent compared to December 2021.
Dubrovnik airport with 19 thousand passengers, or an increase of 61 percent compared to December the year before, was in third position.
And in December the most significant international passenger traffic was with airports from Germany, 68 thousand passengers, followed by the United Kingdom with 22,000 passengers, or 98.7 percent more compared to the same period last year, and then the Netherlands with around 19,000 passengers.
