15.5 Million Tourists Expected to Reach
Malaga Airport in Bumper Summer
Malaga Airport – the airport serving the Costa del Sol – is
set to see more records broken in 2017, according to the director of the
airport Salvador Merino.
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| Its predicted to be another record breaking year |
The airport director did admit that there were several
factors that could affect the demand, but he also revealed around 90,000
flights are expected between the summer months of May and October, which is
around 500 flights per day.
Several tour operators are analysing the trends from the
start of the year, leaving them just as hopeful for another bumper summer
season for Spain. Malaga airport is welcoming more flight routes and flight
times to deal with the demand which is coming from not just the UK, but also
from Belgium, Scandinavia, and the Netherlands.
The Malaga airport will serve a record 126 destinations by
the summer, with 62 of these locations based in the UK (an increase of 9% over
2016), which only highlights the fact that Brits make up the bulk of foreign
tourism and are the most predominant second-home owners in the Costa del Sol.
Malaga has also seen a 20% increase in connection routes to
Germany and Italy in the past year, a statistic highlighting the growing
popularity of Spain around the whole of Europe. Data published in February
shows that Malaga airport welcomed some 867,382 passengers during January – an
increase of 18.4% over January of 2016.
