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BOOM TIME 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.
Alicante Elche 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, 16,858,135 were commercial passengers, of which 10,724,913 travelled on international flights, a 99.2 per cent recovery from creased more in Alicante last year than anywhere else in the country. In fact, Alicante’s closest competitor on the list was Las Palmas where sales increased by 32.2 per cent.
January 2019 and 72.1 per cent more than in 2022, and 6,133,222 travelled on domestic flights.
This figure is 7.3 per cent more than pre pandemic and 49.3 per cent more than last year.
The huge increase in property sales in Alicante places the region in third place for properties sold in total during 2022 after the country’s biggest cities, Madrid and Barcelona who recorded 83,388 and 66,537 sales respectively.
The figures are almost unparalleled, representing the largest volume of property sales since the market boom of 2007 when 52,816 properties were sold.
Property experts are crediting Alicante’s property boom to foreign interest in the market, particularly after the pandemic. However, they highlighted that sales slowed in the final quarter as interest rates rose.
