Source: Aena

  • This is a 2.2% increase on the same month of 2019 and 39.6% more than in 2022
  • There were 154,217 aircraft movements and 80,480 tonnes of cargo were transported across the network

Aena network airports ended the month of February 2023 with 16,622,180 passengers, exceeding the data for the same month in 2019, the year before the pandemic, by 2.2%. This also represents an increase of 39.6% compared to February 2022.

In February 2023, 154,217 aircraft flights were handled, matching 2019 figures and exceeding those of 2022 by 18.9%; and 80,480 tonnes of cargo were moved, 2.5% more than in the same month in 2019 and 2.2% more than in February 2022.

Of the total number of passengers registered in February, 16,542,112 were commercial passengers. A total of 10,539,161 of these commercial passengers travelled on international flights, 0.2% less than in February 2019 and 44% more than in 2022, while 6,002,951 travelled on domestic flights, 6.4% more than before the pandemic and 32.5% more than last year.

Between January and February 2023, airports in the Aena network handled 33,552,280 passengers (2.2% more than in 2019), recorded 310,717 aircraft movements (1% less than in 2019) and transported 155,027 tonnes of goods, 0.5% less than in the same period in 2019.

Passengers

Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport recorded the highest number of passengers in the first month of the year with 4,174,111, up by 0.6% on February 2019, as well as an increase of 45.1% compared to February last year.

It is followed by Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat, with 3,132,658 (-4.1% compared to 2019 and +58% compared to 2022); Gran Canaria, with 1,162,836, (+3.3% and +30.7%); Málaga-Costa del Sol, with 1,123,164 (+6.7% and +28.9%); Tenerife Sur, with 1,055,210 (+10.7% and +28%); Palma de Mallorca, with 905,954 (+1.1% and +26.9%); Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández, with 790,766 (+1% and +35.5%) and Lanzarote-César Manrique, with 622,198 passengers, up by 12.7% versus the same month of 2019 and 26% more than the passengers in February 2022.

Operations

In terms of the number of operations, the airport that recorded the highest number of movements in February was Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas, with a total of 27,886 (-7.6% compared to 2019 and +24.5% compared to 2022), followed by Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat, with 20,764 flights (-8.5% and +36.2%); Gran Canaria, with 10,295 (-0.6% and +18.7%); Málaga-Costa del Sol, with 8,570 (+5.3% and +9.7%); Palma de Mallorca, 8,362 (+5.4% and +19.4%) and Tenerife Sur, with 7,055 and 18.1% more than in the same month of 2019 and an increase of 18.2% compared to February 2022.

Freight

With regard to freight traffic, the airport that recorded the highest cargo traffic was Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas, with 47,733 tonnes, 15.9% more than in the same month of 2019 and an increase of 8.4% over 2022. It is followed by the airports of Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat, with 11,999 tonnes (-2.9% compared to 2019 and +5.1% compared to 2022); Zaragoza, which recorded 9,200 tonnes (-34.2% and -18.1%) and Vitoria, with 5,713 tonnes and 16.2% more than in the same month of 2019 and 1.4% less than in February 2022.