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LARGEST UKRAINIAN AIRPORT BORYSPIL RAISES PASSENGER TRAFFIC BY 60%

9 August , 2021  

Boryspil International Airport (Kyiv) in January-July 2021 served 4.565 million passengers, which is 60% more compared to the same period in 2020 (2.848 million).
At the same time, according to the airport’s data provided to the Interfax-Ukraine agency, in July it served 1.168 million passengers, which is 3.5 times more than in July 2020, of which 735,640 people were on regular flights, 432,354 people – on non-scheduled flights.
In July, the airport accepted and dispatched 8,635 flights, which is 2.5 times more than in July 2020.
In addition, over the seven months of 2021, Boryspil airport served 2.512 million passengers on regular flights (an increase of 22%) and 2.053 million on non-scheduled flights (an increase of 2.6 times).
In total, for this period of 2021, the airport accepted and sent 37,899 flights, which is 49.4% more than in the same period in 2020.
At the same time, the number of transfer passengers for the seven months of this year decreased by 60%, to 156,812 people (for the same period last year, this figure was 392,346 people).
The share of transfers in the total passenger traffic in January-July 2021 decreased from 13.8% to 3.4%.

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