The airports of the Aena network in Spain have closed the seventh month of 2024 with an all-time record number of passengers, aircraft movements and cargo in a month of July, thus maintaining the upward trend since the beginning of the year and for most of last year.

In July 2024, Aena received 31,900,662 passengers, 7.2% more than in the same month of 2023; it handled 259,841 aircraft movements, 7.3% more than in 2023; and it transported 106,659 tonnes of cargo, up 22.9% on last year.

Of the total number of passengers in July, 31,828,032 were commercial passengers: 22,241,650 travelled on international flights, 8.9% more than in July 2023, while 9,586,382 travelled on domestic flights, 3.3% more than last year.

Up to July 2024, 176,051,893 passengers passed through Aena airports (10.6% more than in 2023), 1,483,073 aircraft movements were recorded (+8%) and 711,439 tonnes of cargo were transported, 19.7% more than in the same period of 2023.

Passengers

Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport recorded the highest number of passengers in the seventh month of the year with 6,132,937, growth of 10.6% compared with July last year.

This is followed by Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat, with 5,381,969 (+9% compared with 2023); Palma de Mallorca, with 4,597,872 (+5%); Málaga-Costa del Sol, with 2,659,290 (+9.3%); Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández, with 1,989,648 (+16.1%); Ibiza, with 1,433,043 (-0.2%); Gran Canaria, with 1,208,141 (+6%); Valencia, with 1,086,627 (+4.9%) and Tenerife Sur, with 1,079,569 passengers, a rise of 13.8% on July 2023.

In addition to the Aena network as a whole, total passenger records were broken in the month of July at 7 airports: Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas, Palma de Mallorca, Málaga-Costa del Sol, Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández, Valencia, Bilbao and Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna.

Operations

In terms of operations, the airport with the most movements in July was Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas, with a total of 37,773 (+9.6% compared with 2023), followed by Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat, with 32,768 flights (+6.9%); Palma de Mallorca, with 31,243 (+4.5%); Málaga-Costa del Sol, with 18,399 (+6.2%); Ibiza, with 13,082 (-0.5%); Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández, with 12,139 (+14.7%) and Gran Canaria, with 11,231 landings and take-offs (+6%).

In the seventh month of 2024, in addition to the network as a whole, record operations were achieved in a month of July at 5 airports, namely Palma de Mallorca, Málaga-Costa del Sol, Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández, Burgos and Logroño.

Cargo

With regard to freight traffic, the airport with the highest cargo volume was Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas, with 64,229 tonnes, 23.4% more than in the same month of 2023. It was followed by the Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat airport, with 16,078 tonnes (+19.5%); Zaragoza airport, which recorded 13,028 tonnes (+49.4%); and Vitoria airport, with 6,175 tonnes (+3.7%).