Tocumen International passes pre-pandemic passenger levels
The second quarter of 2023 has been good for passenger air transport in the world, which has fully recovered in almost all regions, indicates the International Air Transport Association in its economic report.
IATA places Panama among the countries that have managed to fully recover their air connectivity, reaching between 90% and 105% that it had in 2019, that is, it not only recovered all of its number of routes and frequencies with different cities, which it recorded quarterly before the pandemic but increased connectivity and passenger movement by up to 5% in a few months.
The general manager of Tocumen, Raffoul Arab, said that the goal for this year is to reach 17.2 million passengers transported, which will mean an increase of 4.2% compared to the 16.5 million passengers that traveled during 2019 and an increase of 9.5 % with respect to the 15.7 million passengers that mobilized in 2022.
Between April and June Tocumen mobilized 4.30 million passengers on different routes, 11.68% more than in the second quarter of 2019 when the passenger flow averaged 3.85 million in those three months.
