Number of passengers served by Eugen Doga Chisinau International Airport increases by 45 per cent in last September

The Eugen Doga Chisinau International Airport continued its upward trend in air traffic in last September. Thus, the number of boarded and deboarded passengers reached about 446,000, marking a 45.5% increase compared to the same period of the last year.

The largest increases in passenger numbers were recorded on such destinations as Istanbul, Bucharest, Antalya, Barcelona, Heraklion, Larnaca, Paris, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tel Aviv, Vienna, Milan, Warsaw, Brussels, Bologna, Berlin.

At the same time over 54,000 passengers were carried on new destinations in  September 2025, or 8.36 per cent of the total. Most of them traveled to Dortmund, Alicante, Nuremberg, Brussels, Katowice.

Overall, last month saw 4,694 aircraft landings and take-offs and over 253 tons of cargo transported.

"September 2025 confirms the constantly positive evolution of air traffic and the growing interest of passengers in flights to and from Chișinău. The destination network continues to diversify, strengthening the airport's role as a dynamic regional hub," highlighted the airport’s administration.

The Eugen Doga Chisinau International Airport returned to state management in the spring of 2023. The authorities previously announced the modernization of airport infrastructure and the attraction of investments, in order to enhance the capacity and service quality, in a state-managed, transparent, and publicly oriented regime.

Presently, the Chisinau Airport ranks among the top-performing airports in Europe, in the category of 1-10 million passengers per year. The growth is supported by the expansion of the route network and the number of airlines, which increased from 20 in 2022 to 33 in 2024.