Filenews 17 May 2022
A total of 223 flights are operated per week from Paphos International Airport to 55 destinations in May, according to information from Hermes Airports.
According to the airlines' schedule, in May, 223 flights per week to 55 destinations are operated from Paphos International Airport. More specifically, current month from Paphos Airport there are flights to the airports of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Jordan, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, The Netherlands, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, United Kingdom. Flights are increasing in the summer months, reaching 253 flights a week to 59 destinations in August.
In relation to the new routes that will be announced and with which flights, Hermes Airports notes that the summer flight schedule of Paphos Airport offers a wide range of options and destinations. Among other things, it includes flights to six Italian destinations - including the new Route of Pisa, operated by Ryanair, but also to two destinations in France.
At the same time, Jet2 added two flights a week from Bristol, and reintroduced the Belfast route after two years. TUI has also reintroduced the route from Norwich, while Ryanair starts flights from Newcastle to Paphos with two flights a week.
Hermes Airports says it is a fact that people's desire to return to travel is evident. The data before us reinforces our optimism that this year will be even better, says Hermes.
Indicatively, he notes that in the first four months of this year, more than 600,000 passengers travelled to and from Paphos Airport, while the passenger traffic of April exceeded 290,000 passengers (arriving and departing), numbers that show a very large increase compared to the corresponding months of last year, where until that period there was uncertainty due to the pandemic and traffic at Paphos Airport was very much Reduced.
The destinations from which the largest number of passengers came at Paphos Airport in April of this year are the United Kingdom, Greece, Israel, Poland, Italy and Germany.
Hermes Airports estimates that Pafos has regained the momentum it had before the pandemic, and, unless unexpected, this course will continue with an even bigger rise during the summer months.
Based on Hermes airports estimates, passenger traffic to and from Paphos Airport this year will be around 95% of the traffic recorded at Paphos Airport in 2019.
