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Airport Malaga - Costa del Sol recorded 3,72 million passengers

Airports recorded nearly 54 million passengers in the first quarter of the year
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Aena network airports ended the first quarter of the year with 53,645,869 passengers, 41.6% more than the same period last year and 1.6% more than the first three months of 2019.

Between January and March, 491,344 aircraft movements were recorded (0.1% more than in 2019) and 251,593 tonnes of freight were transported, 0.5% more than in the same period of 2019.

In the month of March 2023, they reached 20,093,589 passengers, surpassing by 0.6% the data for the same month of 2019, the year prior to the pandemic. This also represents an increase of 28.9% compared to March 2022.

Last month, 180,627 aircraft flights were handled, beating figures from 2019 by 1.9% and figures from 2022 by 18.2%; and 96,566 tonnes of freight were moved, 2.2% more than in the same month of 2019 and 4.6% more than in March 2022.

Of the total number of passengers registered in March, 20,000,442 were commercial passengers. A total of 12,855,880 of these commercial passengers travelled on international flights, 1.6% less than in March 2019 and 30.6% more than in 2022, while 7,144,562 travelled on domestic flights, 4.4% more than prior to the pandemic and 25.8% more than last year.

Passengers

Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport recorded the highest number of passengers in the third month of the year with 4,821,856, down by 1.7% compared to March 2019, as well as an increase of 35.5% compared to March last year.

It is followed by Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat, with 3,762,656 (-5.2% compared to 2019 and +39.3% compared to 2022); Málaga - Costa del Sol, with 1,475,066 (+9% and +25.1%); Palma de Mallorca, with 1,344,375 (+3.3% and +22.4%); Gran Canaria, with 1,290,562 (-1% and +22.1%); Tenerife Sur, with 1,158,755 (+4.6% and +16.4%); and Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández, with 1,045,004 passengers, up by 4.9% versus the same month of 2019 and 25.8% more passengers than those recorded in March 2022.

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Operations

In terms of the number of operations, the airport that recorded the highest number of movements in March was Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas, with a total of 31,320 (-8.6% compared to 2019 and +17.2% compared to 2022), followed by Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat, with 24,176 flights (-6.9% and +21.3%); Palma de Mallorca, 11,752 (+12.6% and +10.1%); Gran Canaria, with 11,672 (-1.7% and +13.7%); Málaga-Costa del Sol, with 10,908 and 11.4% more than in the same month of 2019 and an increase of 12.7% compared to March 2022.

Freight

With regard to freight traffic, the airport that recorded the highest cargo traffic was Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas, with 57,011 tonnes, 16.9% more than in the same month of 2019 and an increase of 9.7% over 2022. It is followed by the airports Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat, with 13,516 tonnes (-14.5% compared to 2019 and -0.2% compared to 2022); Zaragoza, which recorded 12,036 tonnes (-30.5% and -9.8%) and Vitoria, with 6,770 tonnes and 25% more than in the same month of 2019 and 0.5% more than in March 2022.

Source: Aena

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