Tbilisi International Airport has achieved a historic milestone, surpassing five million passengers in a single year for the first time. The airport’s five-millionth traveler, French citizen Pierre Berret, departed for Paris, where TAV Georgia held a brief ceremony to acknowledge the occasion.
The record comes during a year of exceptionally strong passenger growth across both airports managed by TAV Georgia. Based on eleven months of data, Tbilisi Airport has seen a 13% increase in traffic compared to last year, while Batumi Airport has experienced a 30% rise. Together, the two airports handled over 6.1 million passengers from January to November and total traffic for 2025 is expected to reach about 6.6 million.
Peak travel days this summer showed the scale of the surge. On 12 August, Tbilisi Airport recorded its busiest day ever, processing 97 flights and nearly 22,000 passengers. Batumi’s highest traffic day came later that month, on 24 August, when the airport served more than 8,400 passengers.
TAV Georgia’s General Manager, Tea Zakaradze, stated that both airports passed significant annual thresholds this year, including Batumi’s first-ever millionth passenger in October. She emphasized how far the system has evolved since TAV began operating in Georgia two decades ago when Tbilisi Airport handled just 540,000 passengers annually. Over that period, the operator has served more than 50 million passengers collectively at the two airports and invested over USD 230 million in their development.
TAV Georgia, which entered the Georgian aviation sector in 2005, now employs more than 1,900 people and continues to expand airport capacity as traffic grows steadily year after year.
