Aegean carried a total of 4.4 million passengers in Q2 2024, recording an 8% increase in passenger traffic and reaching 7.3 million passengers in the first half of the year, a 9% increase compared to the previous year. In Q2 alone, Aegean offered 5.4 million seats, 9% more than in 2023, while for the full year it will offer more than 19.8 million seats, about 6% more than last year.

Specifically, Aegean says the balanced growth in passenger traffic recorded on both its domestic and international network is fuelled by increased traffic at the Athens hub, which has now established itself as a pole of attraction for international arrivals from distant markets outside the EU, but also by the increased interconnectivity with the other corresponding European long-haul hubs (London, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Dubai) that feed and distribute through AEGEAN's domestic network passenger traffic to the larger or smaller island destinations of Greece.

More specifically, the growth of passenger traffic on the international network to and from the Athens hub recorded an increase of 13%, confirming the company's choice to invest further by increasing frequencies to and from the major European hubs, as well as the markets of Germany, England, Cyprus, Turkey, and the Gulf and Baltic countries. There was a corresponding increase in passenger traffic to and from Thessaloniki (+12% in Q2), which has already handled more than 500,000 international passengers in the first 6 months of the year, gradually consolidating its position as a destination with year-round activity. 

In particular, 1 additional daily flight has been added from/to London (from 3 to 4 daily flights), Istanbul (up to 4 daily flights), Paris, Rome, Frankfurt (from/to Athens and Thessaloniki), and Larnaca, where the airline's new, upgraded lounge has just opened in the past few days. At the same time, the daily flight to Dubai and increased frequencies to Saudi Arabia were attempted. Also, additional weekly flights were added to Munich, Berlin, Vienna, and Madrid, while in June, new direct international routes were added from the Athens base to Vilnius, Palermo, and Sarajevo, while the new direct routes Thessaloniki-Naxos and Heraklion-Kalamata were launched in the domestic network.