Passenger numbers increased in October
Malaga-Costa del Sol Airport closed October with another month of growth, with over 1.5 million international passengers. A total of 1,711,802 passengers passed through Malaga Airport, with 1,520,033 being on international flights, an annual increase of 20.9%. This is according to data released by airport network AENA.
Passengers were carried on over twelve thousand flights, an increase of 18.1%. Passenger numbers recorded an increase of 19.6%, when compared to October 2015.
The bulk of the passengers (1,707,304) using Malaga Airport were on commercial flights.
187,271 passengers were on domestic flights between Spanish cities. In this case, the numbers represent an increase of 9.5% in passenger numbers and 5.9% in flight operations, when compared to the same month in the previous year.
Despite Brexit worries and the falling values of the Pound, the Brits appear undettered. Passengers from the UK accounted for most of the passengers passing through Malaga in October. There were 584,100 travellers from the UK, an annual increase of 20.8%. German passengers numbered 167,625, while there were 108,189 passengers from France.
Two Saturdays in October saw the largest concentration of passengers in Malaga. October 1st saw the biggest influx of passengers with over 68,000 in a single day. On Saturday 22nd there was a lower number of passengers but a higher number for flight operations with 467 movements.
Year to Date
So far in 2016 there has been continued growth from month to month. The total number of passengers that have passed through Malaga-Costa del Sol Airport from January to October is 14,795,029. Not only is this a record number, it is almost 400,000 more passengers than travelled through the airport throughout the entire year in 2015. In the same period, there have been well over a hundred thousand flight operations.
Those figures show us double-digit increases when compared to the same period in 2015 with 15.1% more passengers and 12.7% more flights.
