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Date Published: 13/06/2023
Alicante-Elche airport exceeds 1.5M passengers in a month - a new record
In May, the Costa Blanca's main terminal saw an 18% passenger increase on the same month in 2022
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Alicante-Elche airport is flying high with record traffic figures despite ongoing airline worker strikes in the UK, Spain and France.
For the second consecutive month, the Costa Blanca's busiest terminal saw record figures in May, exceeding 1.5 million passengers - an increase of 18% on the same month last year.
This is significantly higher than the national average rise of 14.4% and places Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández air terminal as the fifth busiest in Spain.
More than 5.5 million travellers have passed through the airport so far this year - a growth of 27.7% compared to 2022 - and the upward trajectory is expected to continue this summer with more than 12 million seats on offer.
Data from airline operator Aena shows that of the 1,500,278 passengers registered in "what was a historic May for the airport", 1,497,905 were commercial passengers, of which 1,305,090 travelled on international flights, an increase of 18.5% over May 2022.
Domestic flights accounted for 192,815, 14.8% more than the previous year.
Unsurprisingly, the majority of international travellers were from the UK (537,255), followed by the Netherlands (90,995), Germany (89,025), Belgium (80,967), Norway (73,383), and France (72,090).
In terms of operations, Alicante-Elche airport managed a total of 9,619 flights in May - 9.6% more than in the same period last year.
Between January and May, a total of 36,375 flights took off or landed at the terminal, 14.8% more than during the first five months of 2022.
During the period considered 'high season' - April to October - 12.3 million seats have been made available this year on a total of 66,800 flights scheduled to Alicante.
Although the number of flights is slightly lower (0.2% less) than those offered during the same period in 2019, prior to the pandemic, the number of seats is up 4.4%.
If all the seats are filled, the airport would surpass 15 million passengers, which would see it reach and even surpass pre-Covid figures.
The upward pattern is mirrored on a national basis. More than 102 million passengers passed through airports within the Aena network between January and May 2023, up a staggering 27.7% on 2022 and an increase of 2.3% compared to 2019.
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