Greek regional airports offer improved services

Services at 14 regional Greek airports have markedly improved since German transport company Fraport took over their operations on April 12, 2017. There's more space, including for commercial concessions, more check-in points and more gates.

The overall boom in tourism has something to do with, but it's a fact that those airports saw record traffic of 29.877 million passengers in 2018, up 8.9 percent on 2017 (27.433 million). Of course one can say that the improvement in services had a role in attracting tour operators and airlines.
The number of domestic passengers passing through those airports increased a modest 1.2 percent to 6.962 million, but international traffic rose 11.5 percent to 20.55 million. The greatest increases were observed on Santorini (16.8 percent) and Mykonos (15.6 percent). The rise is expected to continue this year, although at a slower pace.

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