Tbilisi Airport passenger traffic recovers by 92% on pre-pandemic figure
Tbilisi International Airport served 363,830 passengers in August, while Batumi Airport -103,625 passengers. Photo:TAV Georgia
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Passenger flow at Tbilisi International Airport recovered by 92 percent compared to the pre-pandemic 2019 figure in August, TAV Georgia, the company operating two major airports in the country, said on Monday.
In further details, TAV Georgia said the airport had served 363,830 passengers in August, a 48 percent increase compared to 2021 data.
Figures for Batumi International Airport in the country’s western Adjara region - also operated by TAV Georgia - showed the airport had served 103,625 passengers last month, marking a two percent increase compared to 2021 and a seven percent increase compared to 2019.
Georgia’s revenues from tourism reached $476 million in July, a 20 percent increase from the same month of the pre-pandemic 2019 and a roughly 130 percent increase from July 2021, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said last month, with the latest figures of the August to be released in the coming days.
Two hundred travel bloggers and influencers from the United Arab Emirates, followed and read by around 30 million subscribers, have boarded a flight to an undisclosed destination in the western Georgia’s Imereti region to spend the weekend before sharing their impressions on social media, as part of a campaign my Hungarian budget airline Wizz Air.
Leonídio Paulo Ferreira, one of the editors of the popular Portuguese magazine Diario de Noticias, is visiting Georgia as part of a press tour organised by the Georgian National Tourism Administration, the state body announced on Wednesday.
Tbilisi International Airport in the Georgian capital served 1,515,988 passengers in the first seven months of 2022, while the number stood at 313,036 for Batumi International Airport in the country's Black Sea city, TAV Georgia, the operator of the two facilities, announced on Wednesday.
Georgia’s revenues from tourism reached $476 million in July, a 20 percent increase from the same month of the pre-pandemic 2019 and a roughly 130 percent increase from July 2021, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said at today's Government meeting.
Georgia’s revenues from tourism reached $522,945,221 in August, a 26.7 percent increase from the same month of the pre-pandemic 2019 and a 163.1 percent increase over August 2021, the country’s tourism administration said on Friday.
Air Moldova airline is set to launch direct flights between Tbilisi and Chișinău next month, TAV Georgia, the company operating Tbilisi and Batumi airports in the country, said on Tuesday.
Cooperation prospects and the growing dynamics of tourism recovery in Georgia were discussed on Monday in a meeting between Georgian prime minister Irakli Garibashvili and Serkan Kaptan, the president of TAV Airports, the company managing two of the largest airports in the country.
Levan Davitashvili, the Georgian minister for economy, on Monday said the government was expecting about three billion dollars in income from the domestic tourism sector this year, which would mark a number close to the pre-pandemic figure of $3.2 billion.
Air Moldova has made its inaugural flight to Georgia, carrying 140 passengers from Chișinău to Tbilisi, TAV Georgia, the operator of Tbilisi and Batumi international airports, said on Monday.
Georgian deputy economy minister Mariam Kvrivishvili on Monday said increasing the number of direct flights to European Union member states was among the priorities of the country’s government, in comments on the recent launch of Air Moldova regular flights between Tbilisi and Chișinău.
Georgian aviation has been recovering “intensively” and will be “fully restored” in 2023, the Georgian economy minister Levan Davitashvili said on Saturday after his meeting with Eamonn Brennan, the director general of Eurocontrol.
Passenger flow at Tbilisi International Airport recovered by 108 percent in November 2022 compared to pre-pandemic 2019 figures, TAV Georgia, the company operating two major airports in the country, said on Monday.
Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Garibashvili and Serkan Kaptan, President of TAV Airports, the company managing two of the largest airports in the country, on Wednesday discussed ongoing cooperation and prospects for stimulating new airlines and routes on the domestic airline market.