Airport recovery

IT is good news for Spain and tourism as AENA network of airports has confirmed that it has exceeded pre­pandemic data for the first time since Covid, reaching a whopping 16,930,100 passengers in January 2023.

It looks as though things are really starting to pick up as AENA (the airport management group which includes AlicanteElche Miguel Hernandez Airport) closed the first month of the year 2.1 per cent up on the same month of 2019 and 62.7 per cent more than in 2022.

Alicante­Elche Miguel Hernandez Airport saw 795,148 passengers through its doors in January (+1.3 per cent more than the same month of 2019 and +68.1 per cent more than January 2022).

Of the total number of travellers recorded in January, 6,133,222 travelled on domestic flights.