List of the busiest airports in the Balkans
List of airports by number of passengers
The following list is for all of the countries to occupy Balkan territory with the exception of and, the information contained is for all airports on those territories.Rank | Country | Airport | City | Passengers 2014 | Passengers 2015 | Passengers 2016 | Passengers 2017 | Passengers 2018 | Passengers 2019 | Change 2018-2019 |
1 | GRE | Athens International Airport | Athens | 15,196,369 | 18,087,377 | 20,016,998 | 21,737,787 | 24,135,736 | 25,574,030 | 6.0% |
2 | GRE | Heraklion International Airport | Heraklion | 6,024,958 | 6,057,355 | 6,742,746 | 7,336,783 | 8,098,465 | 7,933,558 | 2.0% |
3 | BUL | Sofia International Airport | Sofia | 3,815,158 | 4,088,943 | 4,979,760 | 6,490,096 | 6,962,040 | 7,107,096 | 2.1% |
4 | GRE | Thessaloniki International Airport | Thessaloniki | 4,950,726 | 5,341,293 | 5,735,581 | 6,247,514 | 6,689,193 | 6,897,057 | 3.1% |
5 | SRB | Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport | Belgrade | 4,638,577 | 4,776,110 | 4,924,992 | 5,343,420 | 5,641,105 | 6,159,000 | 9.2% |
6 | GRE | Rhodes International Airport | Rhodes | 4,552,056 | 4,579,023 | 4,942,386 | 5,301,517 | 5,567,748 | 5.542.567 | 0.5% |
7 | CRO | Zagreb International Airport | Zagreb | 2,430,971 | 2,587,798 | 2,776,087 | 3,092,047 | 3,336,310 | 3,435,531 | 2.9% |
8 | ALB | Tirana International Airport Nënë Tereza | Tirana | 1,810,305 | 1,997,044 | 2,195,100 | 2,630,338 | 2,947,172 | 3,338,147 | 13.0% |
9 | CRO | Split Airport | Split | 1,752,657 | 1,955,400 | 2,289,987 | 2,818,176 | 3,124,067 | 3,301,930 | 5.7% |
10 | GRE | Corfu International Airport | Corfu | 2,383,353 | 2,437,890 | 2,788,923 | 2,918,434 | 3,364,115 | 3,275,897 | 2.6% |
11 | GRE | Chania International Airport | Chania | 2,447,566 | 2,702,283 | 2,953,278 | 3,042,903 | 3,008,687 | 2,983,542 | 0.8% |
12 | CRO | Dubrovnik Airport | Dubrovnik | 1,584,471 | 1,693,934 | 1,993,243 | 2,323,065 | 2,539,412 | 2,896,227 | 14.1% |
13 | BUL | Burgas International Airport | Burgas | 2,522,319 | 2,360,320 | 2,878,883 | 2,982,339 | 3,277,229 | 2,885,776 | 12.0% |
14 | GRE | Kos International Airport | Kos | 2,214,464 | 2,143,860 | 1,901,495 | 2,320,590 | 2,666,307 | 2,676,644 | 0.4% |
15 | KOS | Pristina Airport | Pristina | 1,404,775 | 1,549,198 | 1,744,202 | 1,885,136 | 2,165,749 | 2,373,698 | 9.6% |
16 | MKD | Skopje International Airport | Skopje | 1,208,359 | 1,452,465 | 1,649,374 | 1,868,272 | 2,158,258 | 2,358,548 | 9.3% |
17 | GRE | Santorini National Airport | Santorini | 1,179,808 | 1,495,890 | 1,685,695 | 1,928,295 | 2,254,926 | 2,300,408 | 2.0% |
18 | BUL | Varna International Airport | Varna | 1,387,494 | 1,398,694 | 1,689,595 | 1,970,700 | 2,281,134 | 2,084,319 | 8.7% |
19 | GRE | Zakynthos International Airport | Zakynthos | 1,182,295 | 1,268,497 | 1,423,044 | 1,659,646 | 1,800,457 | 1,810,427 | 0.5% |
20 | SLO | Ljubljana Joze Pucnik Airport | Ljubljana | 1,338,619 | 1,438,304 | 1,404,831 | 1,683,045 | 1,812,411 | 1,721,355 | 5.0% |
21 | GRE | Mykonos International Airport | Mykonos | 778,729 | 876,057 | 999,026 | 1,207,061 | 1,395,787 | 1,520,145 | 8.9% |
22 | MNE | Tivat Airport | Tivat | 910,264 | 895,050 | 979,432 | 1,129,720 | 1,245,999 | 1,367,282 | 9.7% |
23 | MNE | Podgorica Airport | Podgorica | 699,141 | 748,899 | 873,278 | 1,055,142 | 1,208,525 | 1,297,365 | 7.4% |
24 | BIH | Sarajevo Airport | Sarajevo | 709,901 | 772,904 | 838,968 | 957,971 | 1,046,635 | 1,143,680 | 9.3% |
25 | CRO | Zadar Airport | Zadar | 496,697 | 487,652 | 520,924 | 589,841 | 603,819 | 801,347 | 32.7% |
26 | CRO | Pula Airport | Pula | 382,992 | 359,426 | 436,121 | 595,812 | 717,187 | 777,568 | 8.4% |
27 | GRE | Kephalonia International Airport | Kephalonia | 479,195 | 492,502 | 542,359 | 629,671 | 761,647 | 774,170 | 1.6% |
28 | GRE | Preveza-Aktion Airport | Preveza | 358,245 | 388,295 | 472,870 | 569,249 | 583,666 | 625,790 | 7.2% |
29 | BIH | Tuzla Airport | Tuzla | 151,353 | 259,074 | 311,398 | 535,834 | 584,589 | 593.083 | 1.4% |
30 | GRE | Mytilene International Airport | Mytilene | 459,295 | 481,422 | 408,572 | 436,105 | 477,056 | 496,577 | 4.1% |
31 | GRE | Samos International Airport | Samos | 396,308 | 403,150 | 346,780 | 410,331 | 462,749 | 467,395 | 3.9% |
32 | GRE | Skiathos International Airport | Skiathos | 311,075 | 353,083 | 397,646 | 425,287 | 437,916 | 446,219 | 1.9% |
33 | SRB | Niš Constantine the Great Airport | Nis | 1,335 | 36,258 | 124,917 | 331,582 | 351,477 | 422,255 | 20.0% |
34 | GRE | Kavala International Airport | Kavala | 221,087 | 243,745 | 260,740 | 337,963 | 406,949 | 323,310 | 20.6% |
35 | MKD | Ohrid St. Paul the Apostle Airport | Ohrid | 69,984 | 107,916 | 145,002 | 159,072 | 184,283 | 317,397 | 72.2% |
36 | GRE | Kalamata International Airport | Kalamata | 226,602 | 188,209 | 230,100 | 278,063 | 278,961 | - | - |
37 | GRE | Chios Island National Airport | Chios | 185,082 | 195,183 | 193,427 | 216,903 | 229,749 | - | - |
38 | GRE | Alexandroupolis International Airport | Alexandroupolis | 158,737 | 168,631 | 161,636 | 169,806 | 211,954 | - | - |
39 | GRE | Karpathos Island National Airport | Karpathos | 204,621 | 222,805 | 220,930 | 223,847 | 206,758 | - | - |
40 | GRE | New Paros Airport | Paros | 40,171 | 43,182 | 74,344 | 163,368 | 204,924 | - | - |
41 | CRO | Rijeka Airport | Rijeka | 106,235 | 139,718 | 145,297 | 142,111 | 183,606 | 200,841 | 9.4% |
42 | GRE | Araxos Airport | Araxos | 146,403 | 147,560 | 129,738 | 153,496 | 182,129 | - | - |
43 | BIH | Banja Luka Airport | Banja Luka | 27,636 | 22,800 | 21,694 | 20,867 | 36,180 | 149,693 | 313.7% |
44 | BUL | Plovdiv International Airport | Plovdiv | 103,535 | 103,300 | 77,649 | 91,600 | 133,397 | - | - |
45 | GRE | Ioannina National Airport | Ioannina | 79,395 | 86,523 | 97,745 | 96,350 | 109,830 | 134,011 | 22.01% |
46 | GRE | Lemnos International Airport | Lemnos | 92,964 | 99,491 | 88,416 | 86,153 | 94,227 | - | - |
47 | GRE | Naxos Island National Airport | Naxos | 31,685 | 43,951 | 35,300 | 56,430 | 86,210 | - | - |
48 | GRE | Milos Island National Airport | Milos | 39,239 | 50,589 | 45,268 | 45,209 | 75,556 | - | - |
49 | CRO | Osijek Airport | Osijek | 26,768 | 28,651 | 30,605 | 43,373 | 67,235 | 46,361 | 31.0% |
50 | GRE | Sitia Public Airport | Sitia | 34,870 | 27,015 | 20,904 | 31,856 | 61,877 | 16,425 | 73.5% |
51 | GRE | Ikaria Island National Airport | Ikaria | 39,679 | 42,892 | 41,238 | 41,553 | 44,303 | - | - |
52 | GRE | Nea Anchialos National Airport | Nea Anchialos | 65,485 | 24,697 | 22,145 | 30,565 | 41,357 | - | - |
53 | GRE | Kithira Island National Airport | Kithira | 38,856 | 37,870 | 31,880 | 31,905 | 37,031 | - | - |
54 | BIH | Mostar Airport | Mostar | 67,980 | 75,024 | 53,618 | 43,118 | 28,463 | 32.866 | 15.4% |
55 | SLO | Portorož Airport | Portorož | NA | 22,975 | 23,783 | 25,450 | 24,840 | 28,881 | 16.3% |
56 | CRO | Brač Airport | Brač | 9,616 | 8,809 | 12,354 | 21,596 | 30,170 | 25,342 | 16.0% |
57 | GRE | Leros Municipal Airport | Leros | 29,221 | 28,516 | 25,551 | 27,583 | 24,033 | - | - |
58 | GRE | Skyros Island National Airport | Skyros | 12,831 | 21,593 | 29,397 | 17,092 | 18,103 | - | - |
59 | GRE | Syros Island National Airport | Syros | 15,399 | 14,684 | 17,878 | 21,252 | 18,047 | - | - |
60 | GRE | Astypalaia Island National Airport | Astypalaia | 13,772 | 13,787 | 12,020 | 12,252 | 14,029 | - | - |
61 | GRE | Kalymnos Island National Airport | Kalymnos | 24,511 | 23,164 | 18,621 | 11,989 | 10,234 | 10,976 | 2.9% |
62 | CRO | Lošinj Airport | Mali Lošinj | NA | 12,287 | 6,402 | 6,042 | 6,939 | 6,495 | 6.4% |
63 | GRE | Kastellorizo Airport | Kastellorizo | 8,196 | 8,019 | 6,958 | 5,494 | 5,434 | - | - |
64 | GRE | Kozani National Airport | Kozani | 2,707 | 3,242 | 4,287 | 3,815 | 4,345 | - | - |
65 | GRE | Kastoria National Airport | Kastoria | 4,098 | 4,605 | 6,317 | 5,091 | 4,301 | - | - |
66 | GRE | Kasos Island Public Airport | Kasos | 3,478 | 4,456 | 3,888 | 3,066 | 2,840 | - | - |
67 | SLO | Maribor Airport | Maribor | 17,568 | 24,886 | 8,890 | 6,000 | 2,435 | - | - |
68 | BUL | Gorna Oryahovitsa Airport | Gorna Oryahovitsa/Veliko Tarnovo | 286 | 495 | 235 | 361 | 388 | - | - |
69 | SRB | Kraljevo-Morava Airport | Kraljevo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ~600 | - |
Sometimes the European part of is considered part of the Balkan Peninsula. The Istanbul Atatürk Airport is located there. It had 67,981,446 passengers in 2018, placing it on the top spot in the list. The Romanian airports that are considered to be on the Balkan Peninsula are Mihail Kogălniceanu International Airport in Constanța and Tulcea Airport in Tulcea. They have respectively 129,235 and 158 passenger traffic.
List of countries by number of air passengers
Rank | Country | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | Change 2018-2019 |
1 | GRE | 48,851,903 | 53,568,111 | 58,533,896 | 63,728,596 | % | |
2 | BUL | 7,951,752 | 9,626,749 | 11,535,096 | 12,654,188 | % | |
3 | CRO | 7,273,675 | 8,211,237 | 9,632,063 | 10,638,745 | 11,491,689 | 8.0% |
4 | SRB | 4,812,368 | 5,049,909 | 5,675,002 | 5,992,582 | 6,581,855 | 9.9% |
5 | ALB | 1,997,044 | 2,200,449 | 2,630,338 | 2,947,172 | 3,338,147 | 13.0% |
6 | MKD | 1,560,381 | 1,794,376 | 2,027,344 | 2,342,541 | 2,677,618 | 14.3% |
7 | MNE | 1,643,949 | 1,852,710 | 2,184,862 | 2,454,524 | 2,664,647 | 8.6% |
8 | KOS | 1,549,198 | 1,744,202 | 1,885,136 | 2,165,749 | 2,373,698 | 9.6% |
9 | BIH | 1,129,802 | 1,225,678 | 1,557,790 | 1,695,867 | 1,919,342 | 13.2% |
10 | SLO | 1,486,165 | 1,437,504 | 1,714,495 | 1,839,686 | % |