{"id":120662,"date":"2022-01-11T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?p=120662"},"modified":"2022-01-11T23:02:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T23:02:19","slug":"aena-airports-close-2021-43-6-recovery-of-2019-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/2022\/01\/aena-airports-close-2021-43-6-recovery-of-2019-traffic.html","title":{"rendered":"Aena network airports close 2021 with a 43.6% recovery of 2019 traffic."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The airports of the<strong> Aena<\/strong> network closed 2021 with 119,959,671 passengers, which is 56.4% less than the passenger traffic of the same period of 2019, that is, a 43.6% recovery of pre-pandemic traffic. With respect to 2020, a year already affected by the COVID-19 crisis, 2021 closes with an increase in passenger traffic of 57.7%. Throughout the year, the number of aircraft movements was 1,518,713, 35.7% less than 2019; and 998,471 tons of goods were transported, 6.6% less than in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>\u2192 <a href=\"https:\/en\/2022\/01\/aifa-will-operate-only-6-commercial-flights-opening-day.html\">Mexico: AIFA will operate only 6 commercial flights its opening day in March.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the total number of passengers recorded in 2021, 119,396,351 were commercial passengers, of which 52,043,865 traveled on domestic flights, down 39.2% compared to 2019, and 67,352,486 traveled on international routes, down 64.3%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Traffic by airports<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adolfo Su\u00e1rez Madrid-Barajas Airport recorded the highest number of passengers in the network in 2021 with 24,135,220, representing a decrease of 60.9% compared to 2019 and an increase of 41% compared to 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was followed by Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport, with 18,874,896 and a decrease of 64.2% in 2019 and an increase of 48.2% in 2020); Palma de Mallorca, with 14,496,857 (-51.2% in 2019 and 137.3 in 2020); Malaga-Costa del Sol, with 8,874. 765 (-55.3% and 72%), Gran Canaria, with 6,900,493 (-48% and 34.4%); Alicante-Elche, with 5,841,181 (-61.2% and 56.2%); Ibiza, with 4,851,819 (-40.5% and 129.9%)\u00b8Tenerife Sur, with 4,605,827 (-58.8% and 35.8%) and Valencia, with 4,077,836 (-52.2% and 63.9% respectively).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>\u2192 <a href=\"https:\/en\/2022\/01\/tocumen-airport-top-10-worlds-main-airports-hubs.html\">Tocumen, only Latin American airport in the TOP 10 of world\u2019s main airports hubs.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of number of operations, the airport that recorded the highest number of movements in 2021 was Adolfo Su\u00e1rez Madrid-Barajas, with a total of 217,537 (-49%); followed by Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat, with 163. 679 (-52.5%); Palma de Mallorca, with 141,189 (-35%); M\u00e1laga-Costa del Sol, with 92,227 (-36.4%), Gran Canaria, with 83,981 (-33.6%); Ibiza, with 61,612 (-18.3%); Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de la Laguna, with 54,580 (-27.6%) and Alicante-Elche, with 51,505 (-49.2%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, the airports that had mainly non-commercial activity and accounted for the highest number of movements in 2021 were Madrid-Cuatro Vientos, with 60,759 operations (17%); Sabadell, with 51,665 (2%); and Jerez, with 41,260 (-24.3%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of freight, 998,471 tons of cargo were transported in 2021 throughout the Aena network, -6.6% less than in 2019, due to the fact that a very significant part of the usual cargo has been moved in commercial passenger aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The four airports that recorded the highest cargo traffic last year were Adolfo Su\u00e1rez Madrid-Barajas, with a total of 523,396 tons (-6.5%); Zaragoza, 194,352 tons (6.4%); Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat, with 136107 (-23%), and Vitoria, with 72,522 tons 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