Flying high

per cent more than the same month last year.

Adolfo Suárez MadridBarajas Airport recorded the highest number of passengers in the fifth month of the year with 5,053,366, representing an increase of 16.8 per cent compared with May of last year.

It is followed by BarcelonaEl Prat Josep Tarradellas Airport, with 4,477,108 (+17.2 per cent compared to 2022); Palma de Mallorca Airport, with 3,421,182 (+9.7 per cent); Malaga­Costa del Sol

Airport, with 2,151,259 (+16.1 per cent); Alicante­Elche Airport, with 1,500,278 (+18 per cent); Gran Canaria Airport, with 998,304 (+10.7 per cent); and Ibiza Airport, with 971,129 passengers, representing an increase of 13.4 per cent on the number of passengers reached in May of 2022.

As for the number of operations, Alicante­Elche Airport had 9,619 movements with landings and take­offs which is a 9.6 per cent increase compared to 2022.