Over 4.1 million passengers were served at the Chisinau International Airport last year. The Airport’s administration said that this is an increase of 46% or over 1.3 million passengers compared to 2023, IPN reports.
In addition to the results obtained in 2024, the flight network was expanded and supplemented with new destinations that connect Chisinau with hubs in Europe and beyond.
Also last year, seven new airlines started to operate flights at the Chisinau International Airport, namely Georgian Wings, Lufthansa, Skyvision Airlines, Air Anka, Eurowings, Air Baltic, and Mavi Gök Airlines, thus strengthening regional and international connectivity. The flight schedule was complemented with 14 new destinations, specifically Budapest, Cologne, Riga, Istanbul Sabiha, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Enfidha, Manchester, Prague, Abu Dhabi, Brussels Charleroi, Dortmund, Memmingen, and Nuremberg.
Ongoing maintenance works were carried out on Main Runway 08/26, including 16 kilometers of expansion and diamond cutting joints on 23,000 square meters, ensuring the durability and optimal operability of the infrastructure. The works aimed at maintaining the safety and operability standards, thus contributing to the development, in optimal conditions, of takeoffs and landings. Complex repair and modernization works were performed on the embarkation/disembarkation platform and taxiways in four stages. The works included removing the damaged asphalt layer and placing a new layer of bituminous asphalt. Repairs were carried out on a total area of 44,316 square meters of the aircraft service platform, taxiways and part of the taxiway lane.
The Chisinau International Airport has announced that two new airlines will come in 2025. These are SkyUp Airlines, which will open its operational base in April 2025, and Transavia, a renowned French low-cost airline, which will add important connections with Europe.
In July 2025, Wizz Air will place the second aircraft on the RMO, which means more destinations and frequencies for passengers.
Also, the flight network in 2025 will be expanded with 10 new destinations: Bremen, Alicante, Thessaloniki, Palma de Mallorca, Katowice, Copenhagen, Lyon, Paris Orly, Turin, Wroclaw.
