In the first two months of the year passenger numbers reached 1.385 million, while a year ago, in the same period, the number was around 1.2 million, the operator said. 

Cargo handled at the airport reached 7,246 tons in February, up by 4.7% as compared to the same month a year earlier.

Passenger numbers of the airport have lately been on the rise. The number of passengers passing through the airport reached an annual record of 10.3 million in 2015.