Aena’s airports in Spain handled 287.6 million passengers up to the eleventh month of the year, 9.4% more than in 2023.
The airports of the Aena Group (comprising the 46 airports and two heliports in Spain, London Luton Airport and 17 airports in Brazil) closed the eleventh month of 2024 with 26,433,304 passengers, 8.7% more than in the same month of 2023; they handled 240,282 aircraft movements, 9.2% more than in 2023.
In cumulative terms up to November 2024, 342,518,118 passengers passed through Aena Group airports (8.6% more than in 2023); 2,964,370 aircraft movements were recorded (+7.2%); and 1,297,068 tonnes of freight were transported, 18.8% more than in the same period of 2023.
Aena airports in Spain
The airports of the Aena network in Spain closed November with 21,560,768 passengers, 9.2% more than in the same month of 2023; they handled 193,247 aircraft movements, 11.1% more than in 2023; and they transported 120,427 tonnes of freight, up 17.6% on last year.
Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport recorded the highest number of passengers in November with 5,287,809, growth of 9.2% compared with the same month last year. It is followed by Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat, with 4,048,233 (+5.7% compared with 2023); Málaga-Costa del Sol, with 1,612,653 (+9.4%); Gran Canaria, with 1,426,180 (+13.1%); Tenerife Sur, with 1,291,881 (+9.7%); Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández, with 1,279,116 (+19.6%) and Palma de Mallorca, with 1,199,920 passengers, which is 9.3% more than in November 2023.
In addition, a record number of passengers was recorded in a month of November in the Aena network as a whole and in 21 airports: Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas, Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat, Palma de Mallorca, Málaga-Costa del Sol, Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández, Gran Canaria, Tenerife Sur, Valencia, Sevilla, César Manrique-Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Menorca, Bilbao, Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna, Ibiza, Santiago-Rosalía de Castro, Asturias, La Palma, El Hierro, La Gomera and Son Bonet.
In terms of operations, the airport with the most movements in Noviembre was Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas, with a total of 34,177 (+6.8% compared with 2023), followed by Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat, with 26,036 flights (+3.4%); Gran Canaria, with 13,156 (+11.5%); Málaga-Costa del Sol, with 12,068 (+9.7%); Palma de Mallorca, with 10,708 (+8.5%); Tenerife Sur, with 8,668 (+9.1%) and Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández, with 8,566 landings and take-offs (+23%).
In the eleventh month of 2024, a record number of operations for a month of November was recorded for Aena overall and at 18 infrastructures: Gran Canaria, Málaga-Costa del Sol, Palma de Mallorca, Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández, Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna, César Manrique-Lanzarote, Sevilla, Sabadell, Jerez, Ibiza, La Palma, Burgos, Córdoba, Logroño, El Hierro and at Región de Murcia International Airport. In addition, the airports of Tenerife Sur and Fuerteventura also recorded the busiest month of operations in their history.
Up to the eleventh month of 2024, 287,628,309 passengers have passed through Aena airports in Spain (9.4% more than in 2023); 2,402,011 aircraft movements were recorded (+7.8%); and 1,169,188 tonnes of freight were transported, 19.3% more than in the same period of 2023.
Aena Brasil Airports
The 17 airports of Aena Brasil reached 3,734,647 passengers in November, 6.3% more than in the same month of 2023. 37,901 aircraft movements were carried out, an increase of 2.2% compared with the same month in 2023, and 7,484 tonnes of freight were transported, down 19.9% compared with the same month last year. The group of six ANB airports1 closed the month of November with 1,332,056 passengers (+9.7%). Recife Airport reached 784,173 passengers (+4.8%). There were 12,273 flights (+1.1%), of which Recife managed 6,945 (-2.3%).
The BOAB group of eleven airports2 recorded 2,402,591 passengers in November (+4.6% over the same month of 2023). Among them, Congonhas Airport3 stands out with 2,041,025 passengers (+5.1%). A total of 25,628 flights were handled (+2.7%), of which 19,259 (+3.4%) were at São Paulo airport.
Between January and November 2024, 39,437,340 passengers passed through Aena airports in Brazil (+5.5%); 440,583 aircraft movements were recorded (+5.3%); and 99,281 tonnes of freight were transported, 12.5% more than in the same period of 2023.
London Luton Airport
During the month of November, 1,137,889 passengers4 passed through London Luton Airport’s London facilities, 6.3% more than in the same month in 2023. 9,134 aircraft movements were carried out (+2.2%). Up to the eleventh month of 2024, 15,452,469 passengers5 were recorded (+3.2%), 121,776 aircraft movements were handled (+3%) and 28,599 tonnes of freight(5) were transported (+19.7%).
1 ANB – Aeroportos do Nordeste do Brasil -, which manages the airports of Recife-PE, Maceió-AL, Aracaju-SE, João Pessoa-PB, Juazeiro do Norte-CE and Campina Grande-PB, recorded 14,717,860 passengers in 2023.
2 BOAB – Bloco dos Onze Aeroporto do Brasil -, which manages the airports of Congonhas-SP, Campo Grande-MS, Corumbá-MS, Ponta Porã-MS, Santarém-PA, Marabá-PA, Carajás-PA, Altamira-PA, Uberlândia-MG, Montes Claros-MG and Uberaba-MG, recorded 26,377,069 passengers in 2023.
3 Data for Congonhas Airport, as well as the BOAB airports, are compared with those published by INFRAERO, the previous operator, up to the last quarter of 2023.
4 Passengers under the age of 2 are not counted.
Tatiana is the news coordinator for TravelDailyNews Media Network (traveldailynews.gr, traveldailynews.com and traveldailynews.asia). Her role includes monitoring the hundreds of news sources of TravelDailyNews Media Network and skimming the most important according to our strategy.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communication & Mass Media from Panteion University of Political & Social Studies of Athens and she has been editor and editor-in-chief in various economic magazines and newspapers.
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