Spain: Aena airports close August with a recovery of 92.6%.

Dergam Mousa

3 years ago

Aena network airports closed August 2022 with 27,301,674 passengers. This figure is within 7.4 percentage points of pre-pandemic levels, so 92.6% of the traffic recorded in August 2019 has already been recovered.

In addition, 223,260 aircraft were operated, representing a 95.1% recovery over 2019; and 78,468 tons of cargo were moved, representing a 6.3% decrease over the same month in 2019.

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Of the total number of passengers registered in August, 27,236,102 corresponded to commercial passengers, of which 18,429,626 traveled on international flights, 12.7% less than in August 2019; and 8,806,476 traveled on domestic flights, 6.3% more than before the pandemic.

Cumulatively through the eighth month of 2022, a recovery of 85.3% in passenger traffic is achieved compared to the same period in 2019.

From January to August 2022, 159,308,824 passengers have passed through the airports of the Aena network, 1,477,464 aircraft movements were recorded (7.7% less than in 2019) and 651,950 tons of cargo were transported, which is 3% less than in the same period of 2019.

Passengers

Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport recorded the highest number of passengers in the eighth month of the year with 4,985,968, representing a decrease of 13.9% over August 2019.

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They are followed by Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat airport, with 4,464,875 (-17.5% compared to 2019); Palma de Mallorca, with 4,161,847 (-2.8%); Málaga-Costa del Sol, with 2,053. 341 (-6.9%); Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández, with 1,512,008 passengers (-10.6%); Ibiza, 1,361,379 (-1.1%); and Gran Canaria, with 1,090,494 passengers, an increase of 0.8% over the same month of 2019.

Operations

In terms of the number of operations, the airport that reached the highest number of movements in August was Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas, with a total of 31,575 (-15% over 2019), followed by Palma de Mallorca, with 28,838 (+0.2%); Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat, with 27. 779 flights (-15%); Málaga-Costa del Sol, with 15,159 (-3.1%); Ibiza, with 12,827 (+4.6%); Gran Canaria, with 9,910 (-6.6%); and Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández, with 9,795 movements, representing a decrease of 8.9% over the same month of 2019.

Cargo

Regarding cargo traffic, the airport that recorded the highest cargo volume during August was Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas, with 43,511 tons, down 1.9% compared to the same month in 2019. It was followed by Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport, which recorded 13,324 tons (+1% compared to 2019); Zaragoza, with 10,058 tons (-35.6%), and Vitoria, with 5,423 tons, which translates into 31.9% more than in the same month of 2019.