The Boryspil international airport handled 520,000 passengers in January, which is 4% more than the number of passengers it handled in the first month of 2015, the press service of the company announced in a statement.

The number of transit passengers handled by the airport increased 2.4-fold from 53,000 in January 2015 to 127,000 in January this year.

As reported, the number of passengers handled by the Boryspil airport increased by 5.6% to 7.277 million in 2015, compared with the previous year. The airport accounted for 68% of the total number of passengers handled in the country.