Geneva Airport records further passenger growth in 2023
Published: Tuesday, Jan 16th 2024, 10:30
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More people traveled through Geneva Airport again in 2023. The airport has thus continued to recover from the slump suffered during the coronavirus pandemic. The high passenger figures from before the crisis should be reached by 2025.
Last year, Geneva Airport welcomed 16.48 million passengers, as the airport operator announced on Tuesday. This was 17 percent more than in 2022, but the number of passengers was still 8.1 percent lower than in 2019, when Genève Aéroport handled almost 18 million passengers.
The picture is similar for flight movements: At 172,841, the total number of landings and take-offs last year was 5.9% higher than in 2022, but fell short of the number of movements in 2019 by 7.1%.
The airport recorded a decline in freight business, with air and road freight handled falling by 5.8% to 66,358 tons. The reasons for this were slower global economic growth and the reorientation of international trade flows and the associated shift of certain shipments to sea routes.
Corona crisis overcome
However, the developments in passenger numbers and flight movements show that the airport has "completely overcome" the coronavirus crisis, the operator says confidently. According to its own forecasts, a return to the high level of 2019 should then be achieved in 2025.
In 2023, 148 destinations were served from Geneva after 146 flights in 2022. Last year, the entire long-haul offer from the pre-corona period was resumed and frequencies were increased for some destinations, it said.
Among the airlines, Easyjet remains the undisputed leader in Geneva with a market share of 46.4%. Swiss (12.2%) is in second place, followed by British Airways (4.9%), Air France (3.8%), Iberia (2.9%), KLM (2.2%), TAP (2.1%), Emirates (2.0%), Turkish Airlines (1.9%) and Lufthansa (1.6%).
Geneva Airport will publish the detailed report on the 2023 financial year on March 19.
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