It is estimated that Tocumen Airport will transport 17 million passengers

after he Tocumen International Airportwill close 2022 with passenger traffic representing 6% of what they had in 2019, there is optimism that this year the numbers of last year before the pandemic can be exceeded, reported its manager, Raffoul Arab.

Only in passenger entry, in 2019, Tocumen was mobilized 2 million 856 thousand 923 peoplebetween visitors and residents.

They entered until November 2022 1 million 629 thousand 194 passengers according to data from the airport.

“That leads us to be optimistic that we can finish in 2023 before 2019, roughly 17 million passengers“, estimated the Arab, counting departing passengers and transfer passengers.

Adding all these statistics, as of November 2022, the movement of passengers at Tocumen Airport amounted to 11 million 533 thousand 736 people.

To reach the goal, the Arab recognized it they will have to manage their finances wiselydue to the consequences of the pandemic.

“The pandemic has left us with deep scars in the administrative part, so we must act prudently so solvency continues to recover,” the manager said.

He added that it was Terminal 2 of the airport functions optimally, with three airlinesto which others will be added over the months.

In the month of January, 161 thousand 940 passengers entered Panamawhich is more than in the same month last year, when there were 115,738.

Most came from the North American side United States with 36,651while it was from Central America Costa Rica, with 4,132from South America, Colombia, with 20,635 and the Antilles, Cuba, with 3,069.

The European country with the most visitors who entered the country via the airport was Spain with 6,094while Asia was India, with 1,198.

With less movement South Africa was the country that contributed the most visitors in January, with 220, while Oceania was Australia, with 450.