Aena S M E S A : network airports registered 10,403,137 passengers in the month of January

11 February 2022

This is a recovery of 62.7% compared to the data for the same month in 2019 (before the pandemic) and an increase of 269.6% compared to January 2021

131,842 aircraft movements were registered and 76,731 tonnes of cargo were transported throughout the network

Aena network airports closed January 2022 with 10,403,137 passengers, a recovery of 62.7% with respect to the data for the same month in 2019 (the year before the pandemic) and an increase of 269.6% with respect to January 2021, a month that was affected in its entirety by COVID-19.

In January 2022, 131,842 aircraft were managed, which equals a recovery of 82.6% and an increase of 114.6% compared to 2021; furthermore, 76,731 tonnes of goods were moved, representing a recovery of 99.2% compared to the same month in 2019 and an increase of 23.6% compared to January 2021.

Of the total number of travellers recorded in January, 10,339,649 were commercial passengers, of which 6,232,100 travelled on international flights (42.4% less than in January 2019 and 404.1% more than in 2021) and 4,107,549 on domestic flights (28.2% less than before the pandemic, but 165.9% more than last year).

Passengers

The Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport recorded the highest number of passengers in the first month of the year with 2,690,394, representing a decrease of 38.7% compared to January 2019 and an increase of 218.3% over January of last year.

It was followed by Barcelona-El Prat Josep Tarradellas with 1,701,533 passengers (-48% with respect to 2019 and +313.5% compared to 2021); Gran Canaria, with 845,605, (-28.4% and +259.9); Tenerife Sur, with 716,413 (-29.7% and +631.6%); Málaga-Costa del Sol, with 696,049 (-31.3% and +314%); Palma de Mallorca, with 559,675 (-33.3% and +238.1%), Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández, with 473,135 (-39.7% and +511.9%), and César Manrique-Lanzarote, with 406,115 passengers (28.7% less compared to the same month in 2019 and 379.3% more passengers than those reached in January 2021).

Operations

In terms of the number of operations, the airport with the highest number of movements in January was Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas, with a total of 23,940 (-27.2% in 2019 and +136.1% in 2021), followed by Barcelona-El Prat Josep Tarradellas, with 15,568 flights (-35.1% and +179.4%); Gran Canaria, with 9,555 (-16.2% and +118.1%); Málaga-Costa del Sol, with 7,684 (-9.9% and +165.4%); Palma de Mallorca, 6,941 (-18% and +108.3%); Tenerife Sur, with 6,144 (-9.3% and +282.3%); Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna, with 4,751 (-21% and +61.5%); Lanzarote-César Manrique, with 4,351 (-14.8% and +155.8%), and Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández, with 4,248 (29.3% less compared to the same month in 2019 and 226.5% more compared to January 2021).

Cargo

With regard to cargo traffic, 76,731 tonnes were managed at Aena network airports in January, which is 0.8% less than in January 2019, and a 23.6% increase over the cargo handled in 2021.

The airport that recorded the highest cargo traffic was Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas, with 42,579 tonnes, which is 7.2% more with respect to the same month in 2019 and an increase of 57.9% over 2021. It is followed by the airports of Zaragoza, with 12,028 tonnes (-3.2% in 2019 and -22.2% in 2021); Barcelona-El Prat Josep Tarradellas, which recorded 10,786 tonnes (-16.9% and +13.8%) and Vitoria, with 5,452 tonnes, which is 5.9% more than in the same month in 2019 and a decrease of 4.3% than in January 2021.

*Comparisons against 2019 are included (the last full fiscal year that was not affected by COVID-19) and percentages are added with respect to the same month last year, in order to draw a comparison against a fiscal year such as 2021, which was affected by the pandemic in its entirety.