Spanish airports handled 1.3 million flights
28 August, 2024Spanish air navigation manager Enaire has handled 1,341,432 flights between the first and seventh month of 2024, which is 8.5% more than in the same period of the record year 2023. This is the busiest January-July in the company's history, and the forecast is that a new record year will be set by the end of this year.
In this period, international flights increased by 10.3% to 766,406, while overflights, those which neither originate nor terminate at a Spanish airport, rose by 6.2% to 304,973. Domestic flights reached 270,053, an increase of 5.9%.
As a result, all of Enaire's air traffic control centres recorded increases. Most notably the Canary Islands, with 234,630 flights handled, 9.2% more than last year; Barcelona, with 631,994, up 9.1%, and Seville, with an 8.9% increase to 304,699. From January to July, air traffic growth in Spain was 2.6 percentage points higher than the European average (+5.9%).