How Tirana overtook Belgrade to become the largest airport in the region - Business Info

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How Tirana overtook Belgrade to become the largest airport in the region - Business Info

Before Covid-19, Tirana was a miniature airport. In 2005, Tirana had only 785,000 passengers, in 2010 it had 1.5 million, in 2015 not even two million. In 2019, Tirana was still behind Zagreb. That year, Zagreb had 3,435,531 passengers, and Tirana had 3,338,147 passengers, almost 100,000 fewer. And then Covid-19 came and Tirana took off. During the pandemic, Tirana was the number 1 airport in Europe in terms of traffic recovery from 2019. In 202…