March 13 (SeeNews) - Germany's Fraport Group, the operator of Bulgaria's coastal airports of Varna and Burgas, said on Wednesday that traffic numbers for both facilities together dropped by 17.8% year-on-year to 71,287 passengers in February.
The passenger volume at Burgas Airport surged by an annual 58.4% to 9,703 last month, whereas passengers at Varna Airport sank by 23.6% to 61,584, Fraport Group, majority owner of the airports operator Fraport Twin Star Airport Management, said in a monthly traffic report.
The total passenger numbers at both airports amounted to 115.8% of the traffic recorded in the same month of pre-pandemic 2019.
In the first two months of 2024, combined traffic at the two coastal airports totalled 156,518 passengers, down 14.7% on the year, with Varna Airport contributing 134,909 passengers, data showed.
Cargo handled at the Varna and Burgas airports soared by an annual 1,260% to 136 tonnes in the review month. For January-February, cargo was 141.8% more than a year earlier, at 162 tonnes.
Aircraft take-offs and landings at both airports declined by 14.3% year-on-year to 692 in February and by 6.9% to 1,515 in the two months overall.