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Passenger traffic at 24 Greek airports rose 6.1% in January-September 2024 compared with the same period last year, the Civil Aviation Authority (CΑA) said in a report on Friday.

Passenger traffic totaled 9,984,655 in January-September, from 9,413,077 in January-September last year.

Significant delays in arrivals and departures were caused by a sudden slowdown called by air traffic controllers at Athens airport on Friday.

Controllers reduced the speed at which they handled aircraft movements in response to the Civil Aviation Authority's (CAA) alleged intention to increase their working week to 40 hours.

Flight disruptions have affected Athens International Airport after air traffic controllers initiated a go-slow action following disagreements between their union and Greece's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Thursday evening. This action has also impacted several regional airports across the country.

Passenger traffic at the 24 airports managed by Greece's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) increased 5.4% according to provisional figures for January-August 2024 released on Monday.

Passenger traffic at the 24 airports managed by the Civil Aviation Authority rose 5.4%, according to provisional statistics for the eight months January-August 2024.

Greek airports are showing impressive performance, with passenger traffic for the first seven months of 2024 signaling a record-breaking year.

On Saturday, August 10, 2024, Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Air Traffic Control handled 4,944 flights at the Athens F.I.R. (arrivals, departures and aircraft transits/overflights), an all-time record.

Traffic through the Athens Flight Information Region (FIR) set a daily record on August 10, with 4,944 flights handled by the FIR's air traffic controllers.

Of those, slightly over 1,600 were overflights and the rest, about 3,300, were departures and arrivals at Greek airports.

The 22 regional airports not yet privatized, and controlled by the Civil Aviation Authority, are in urgent need of repairs and expansion in order to accommodate increased demand: In the first half of 2024, traffic rose 6.34% to 4,032,909 passengers, testing the limits of the airports' capabilities.

A double-digit increase was recorded in passenger traffic at all the country's airports in the year's first four months, on an annual comparison basis.