Greece comes sixth among 43 countries for the highest growth in air passenger numbers in 2014 according to the latest airport report of anna.aero’s, Airline Network News and Analysis. The report analyzed data from 350 airports in over 43 European countries, with Greece showing a 16.9 percent increase in passenger numbers, from 38.5 million to 45 million in 2014, compared with the same airports’ traffic in 2013. Notably, the Kalamata Airport showed an impressive 73.3 percent rise followed by Mykonos Airport with 33.0 percent.
Turkey features among the top nine countries with passenger growth of over 10 percent. It presented an 11.1 percent increase, from 149.4 million passengers to 166 million. Individual airports in Poland, Slovakia and Moldova are also among the top 10 fastest growing and UK, Germany and Spain have as well handled more passengers through their airports in 2014.