Andalucían
Airports in Spain see a record growth in passenger
traffic!
The year 2016 is seeing a major boost to
the number of tourists visiting Andalucía and the numbers just seemed to
increase in February too!
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| Malaga Airport |
All the airports combined of Andalucía saw
a total of 1,243,314 passengers flying in a total of 14,760 flights in February.
Compared to the previous year, the number of tourists has jumped up by 16.2%,
with the count being 2,374,543 passengers.
Malaga
The statistics revealed by Spanish Airports
and Air Navigation (AENA), Malaga was the busiest airport in the region during
the first two months of 2016 and the total traffic was 1,527,221 passengers. This
is a 15.7% rise when compared to the passengers it handled in the last year
during the same period.
A total of 12,646 registered flights
operated in the Malaga area, making it the highest for this region. Also, this
indicated a growth of 11.9% when compared to last year.
As per officials from the Costa del sol Malaga airport, the
airport continues to attract more traffic and the trends have been the same
since the end of 2015. Overall, the passenger traffic went up by 17.8% and the
number of flights operated increased by 14.5% when compared to the statistics
of previous year.
Other
Regional Airports
Seville stood at the second position which
handled 599,541 passengers, making it the second busiest airport. The rise
compared to previous year was 15.5% and the number of flights operated
increased by 3.3% over the past year, making it handle a total of 6,355
recorded flights.
Granada Jaen or Fedrico Garcia Lorca saw
107,734 being handled, which was a 12% increase and Almeria airport handled
78,484 passengers, registering a whopping
growth of 35.4%.
In the case of Jerez de la Frontera or
Cadiz, the increase was 21.3%, attracting passenger traffic of 60,137. However,
only Cordoba was the airport in Andalucia to report a fall of passengers
handled by 3.4%, taking the count to 876 passengers.
Passengers
A high number of passengers took commercial
flights, accounting for 790,747 of the total passengers. The increase in
international travelers was 16.8% when compared to the statistics of 2015.
Domestic flights accounted for 146,834 passengers,
which represents a 21.7% increase in the number of travelers. The domestic
flights operated in Spain also went up by 17.9%.
UK attracted the largest number of
international passengers and the count stood at 226,819. Germany stood second
with a total of 68,753 passengers, while Netherland came third with 46,908
passengers.
2016 looks set to be a record year for holiday makers and northern Europeans looking to buy property in the Costa del Sol.
