Spain: The Aena network airports closed January 2023 with 16,930,100 passengers, 2.1% more than the figures for the same month in 2019 -the pre-pandemic year- and up 62.7% compared to January 2022.
In January 2023, 156,500 aircraft movements were handled, representing a 98.1% recovery versus 2019 and an 18.7% increase compared to 2022; and 74,547 tonnes of freight were shipped, representing a 96.4% recovery compared to the same month in 2019 and a 97.2% recovery compared to January 2022.
Of the total number of travellers recorded in January, 16,858,135 were commercial passengers, of which 10,724,913 travelled on international flights, a 99.2% recovery from January 2019 and 72.1% more than in 2022, and 6,133,222 travelled on domestic flights, 7.3% more than pre-pandemic and 49.3% more than last year.
Passengers
Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport recorded the highest number of passengers in the first month of the year with 4,433,209, up 1.1% on January 2019, as well as an increase of 64.8% compared to January last year.
It is followed by Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat, with 3,078,737 (-6% compared to 2019 and +80.9% compared to 2022); Gran Canaria, with 1,204,146, (+2% and +42.4%); Málaga-Costa del Sol, with 1,120,167 (+10.5% and +60.9%); Tenerife Sur, with 1,093,561 (+7.3% and +52.6%); Palma de Mallorca, with 858,580 (+2.3% and +53.4%); Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández, with 795,148 (+1.3% and +68.1%) and Lanzarote-César Manrique, with 627,992 passengers, up 10.3% versus the same month of 2019 and 54.6% more than the passengers in January 2022.
Operations
In terms of the number of operations, the airport that recorded the highest number of movements in January was Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas, with a total of 30,333 (-7.8% compared to 2019 and +26.7% compared to 2022), followed by Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat, with 20,928 flights (-12.8% and +34.4%); Gran Canaria, with 11,049 (-3.1% and +15.6%); Málaga-Costa del Sol, with 9,023 (+5.8% and +17.4%); Palma de Mallorca, 8,356 (-1.3% and +20.4%) and Tenerife Sur, with 7,503 and 10.7% more than in the same month of 2019 and an increase of 22.1% compared to January 2022.
