Passenger traffic at the Odessa international airport increased by 18.4% to 921,500 in the first 10 months of 2013, compared with the corresponding period of last year, the press service of the airport has announced.

The number of international passengers increased by 22% to 760,000 and the number of domestic passengers increased by 3.3% to 161,000 compared with last year.

The Odessa airport served 88,300 passengers in October, which is 16.5% more than it served in the same period last year.

Out of the 12,445 flights (+2.5%) performed from January to October, 9,426 were on foreign routes, and 3,019 flights were within Ukraine.