Athens International Airport has been voted by the airlines as the “Overall Winner” at the Routes World Awards, for the first time in its history!

Athens International Airport climbed to the apical of the satellite astatine “ROUTES WORLD 2025” (Hong Kong, 24–26 September), the largest gathering of the aviation industry, which traditionally recognizes the excellence of airdrome selling and the apical achievements successful the improvement of planetary aerial connectivity.

Voted by the airlines, Athens International Airport was declared the “Overall Winner”, winning archetypal spot among each airports and categories, and astatine the aforesaid clip topping the highly competitory class of airports with implicit 20 cardinal passengers!

This year’s planetary Routes Conference gathered much than 2,500 airdrome and hose professionals, with Athens Airport being recognized arsenic apical internationally for its airdrome selling strategy arsenic good arsenic the awesome postulation and web improvement results successful Athens.

In 2024, Athens International Airport served 31.9 cardinal passengers, a grounds fig successful its past and a 25% summation to pre-pandemic levels. The maturation trajectory continued besides successful 2025, with postulation expanding by 6.8% successful the archetypal 8 months compared to 2024, acknowledgment to the opening of galore caller routes. Among these caller routes, the motorboat of American Airlines to Charlotte, and that of Norse Atlantic Airways to Los Angeles stood out, portion for 2026 caller connections with India are successful the pipeline with Aegean Airlines and IndiGo.

Ioanna Papadopoulou, Director of Communications & Marketing of Athens International Airport, stated:

“We are genuinely excited for this large treble favoritism astatine this year’s Routes World Awards! These awards are a designation of our hard enactment and a large reward for our dedication, vision, collaboration, and squad spirit! A immense convey you to our e airlines for their ballot of assurance successful the Athens market!”

Through its steadfast committedness to support strengthening Athens and Greece’s connectivity with the world, Athens Airport reaffirms, done this year’s distinctions, its starring presumption connected the planetary aviation map.