July 13, 2020 – The Split Airport and Ferry Port recorded around 45,000 passengers last weekend, which is this year’s record for weekend tourist traffic.
“Saturday and Sunday until midnight at Split Airport, we will have 125 landings and as many takeoffs of commercial and private aircraft, which will carry about 15,000 passengers on arrival and departure, which in the circumstances of the coronavirus epidemic is the biggest traffic during one weekend this year,” said Mate Melvan, Head of the Reception and Dispatch Service at Split Airport, on Sunday for Slobodna Dalmacija.
That’s about 25 percent of the turnover achieved compared to the second weekend in July last year, but given the epidemiological circumstances, that’s a positive trend, he estimated. Recall, in the first six months of this year, Split Airport generated only 10 percent of traffic compared to last year’s first half of the year, he added.
“In July this year, 30 airlines flying on 45 international routes have been hired at Split Airport so far,” Melvan said.
He expects that the number of airlines and the number of passengers at Split Airport will increase by the end of July.
“We believe that by the end of July about 150,000 passengers will be passing through our Airport, which is about one-fifth of last year’s total traffic in July, but given the circumstances, we are satisfied with this kind of traffic. In fact, we can say that we have a ‘new normal season’ in epidemiological circumstances,” Melvan pointed out.
He reminded us that at Split Airport, it is obligatory to wear protective masks, as well as to practice social distance and use hand sanitizer. He points out that guests who come to Split Airport are disciplined and adhere to these epidemiological measures.
The head of Jadrolinija in Split, Jelena Ivulic, said that about 30,000 passengers and 7,000 vehicles would run through Split’s Ferry Port last weekend, which is about 40 percent of the traffic compared to last year’s second weekend in July, but a record in this year’s weekend traffic.
“Guests from Slovenia and Germany have the most traffic through Split’s Ferry Port this weekend, and most travel to the island of Brac, so on Saturday we had to introduce two extraordinary ferry lines to Supetar on Brac,” Ivulic said on Sunday.
She also assessed that, given the epidemiological circumstances, the traffic in Split’s Ferry Port is satisfactory.
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