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Both the average daily number of passengers, 10,000 people, as well as the largest number of passengers serviced in a day, 13,000 people, reached a record high. Compared to June 2017, the number of passengers grew by 15 percent. As the summer months are traditionally the high season for travelling, a continued increase in the volume of traffic can be expected in July and august, Tallinn Airport said.

Commercial director at the Tallinn Airport Eero Pargmae said that the addition of each new air carrier is of significant importance for Tallinn. In June, the Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air as a newcomer started flying from Tallinn Airport to Kiev three times a week. In the second half of the year, Wizz Air will also start flying to Luton Airport in London and the air carrier has expressed hope that it will open some other new routes in 2019.

"Negotiations with Wizz Air lasted over five years. This is once again a good example of how much daunting work must be done in Estonia for getting new flight connections and maintaining the existing ones as well," Pargmae said.

Compared to last year, air carriers added the most flight frequencies to the Helsinki route, also to Copenhagen, Warsaw and Kiev, while a third daily flight to Moscow was also added. The number of passengers rose remarkably also on the St. Petersburg route, with Nordica adding flight frequencies to the route. Nordica reopened the seasonal route to Rijeka and new summer routes to Ohrid and Constanta. The Spanish low-cost airline Vueling also restarted seasonal flights to Barcelona.

Regular flights were made to 41 destinations in June, with an average of 150 takeoffs and landings taking place every day.

The number of charter passengers rose 10 percent on year to June, according to the season, the most popular holiday packages were to the coast of Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria. A new charter destination added to the list was the resort town Tivat in Montenegro.