Number of passengers at Bratislava airport up

THE NUMBER of passengers using M. R. Štefánik Airport in Bratislava rose by 18 percent year-on-year in April.

Milan Rastislav Štefánik Airport in BratislavaMilan Rastislav Štefánik Airport in Bratislava (Source: SITA)

The number has been rising when compared to the same periods of the previous year since the beginning of 2015. In January, the figure went up by 26 percent y-o-y, in February and March even more, by 36 percent. In the first quarter of 2015 the airport saw 215,419 passengers, the TASR newswire wrote.

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The Bratislava airport reported at the end of 2014 that a significant increase in passenger numbers was expected in 2015 because of new planned connections. The airport plans to reach two million passengers per year over the next two years.

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Passenger numbers at the Bratislava airport have not always risen. In 2013, the airport saw a total of 1.37 million passengers, which was a drop of 3 percent when compared to 2012, TASR wrote.

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