Malaga Airport Sees Record-Breaking May

Malaga Airport Sees Record-Breaking May

Malaga airport continues to break all records

confirming the areas popularity

Records were broken at Malaga airport in May 2017, as an unprecedented 1.8 million passengers passed through the doors of the airport; representing an increase 11.2% over May of last year. This is 200,000 more than the number of people passing through the airport in June from last year – which saw 1.6 million passengers – and 100,000 more than from September 2016.

Statistics from the Airports and Air Navigation Authority of Spain (AENA) show that Malaga airport saw the most growth out of any Spanish airport, seeing twice as much growth in May as the terminals in Barcelona and Madrid.

The UK remained top of the league for country of origin of passengers, with some 620,922 British passengers moving through theMalaga-Costa del Sol airport – an increase of 10.2% over the last year. Domestic travellers were second, with German travellers coming in third (168,652) and then the Netherlands (117,971).

The great figures from May bring the country to a total of 6,487,745 passengers moving through Malaga airport across 48,922 flights during the first five months of 2017; equating to a 16% increase in operations and a 15.6% increase in passengers.

The Costa del sol continues to break all records with tourism