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The contribution of the Athens Worldwide Airport (AIA) to the Greek financial system quantities to three.3 billion euros, in keeping with analysis performed by the Basis for Financial and Industrial Analysis (IOBE) to evaluate the financial and social affect of Athens Airport, which was offered at a particular occasion held on Wednesday for the thirty fifth annual ACI Europe convention, which is going down in Athens this week.
As acknowledged by AIA CEO Yiannis Paraschis, the airport’s restoration has had a big affect on the nation’s financial system regardless of the challenges it has confronted sometimes.
“The examine was based mostly on the outcomes of 2023, with a ten% enhance in passenger site visitors in comparison with 2019 and an extra 13.5% enhance in 2024 in comparison with 2023, so the optimistic impacts are even increased,” the CEO of Athens Worldwide Airport commented.
The upward development has been persevering with, since, in keeping with estimates, passenger site visitors within the first half of 2025 will likely be +8% above the corresponding interval in 2024.
“Now, we’re getting into a section the place we could have additional optimistic and multiplying results on the Greek financial system because of the new funding program of €1.3 billion, creating the infrastructure to welcome over 40 million guests per yr,” he added.
