Traveling restrictions and global borders closure due to worldwide pandemic spread affected Georgian aviation passenger traffic significantly. All regular passenger flights to and from Georgian airports where cancelled starting mid-March 2020. Summer touristic season passed completely without international visitors.
Slight gradual recovery of flights began in autumn, but the second wave of disease disrupted plans to open Georgian ski resorts for the winter season. All of this resulted in more than 6 times decrease of aviation passengers visiting Georgia in 2020 compared to record previous year.
According to the Georgian Civil Aviation Agency, in 2020 the country’s airports served only 834 thousand passengers, which is 84% less compared to 2019. The most significant drop was recorded at Tbilisi (-84%) and Batumi (-92%) airports.
Georgian airports international passenger traffic stats, 2013 – 2020
million passengers
Airports servicing domestic flights Mestia, Ambrolauri and Natakhtari served only 5,834 passengers during 2020 (-62%).