Cargo also soared during the period January – June, with an 8.7 percent surge in freight traffic, while aircraft movements jumped 3.7 percent.

Cyprus achieved double digit growth in passenger traffic, with Larnaka International Airport achieving a 22.7 percent jump in this measure compared to H1 2016.

Olivier Jankovec, director general, ACI Europe, enthused, “For Europe’s airports, this is by far the best first half-year traffic performance in more than 10 years.”