Malaga Airport closes its best June in history: an average of 601 flights per day

June once again shone as the star month at Malaga Airport. Aena's data indicates that this facility recorded the best June in its history and also the best semester in its 106 years of existence. During these six months, it gained a million passengers compared to the same period last year. Precisely, 12,394,682 travelers passed through these facilities in the first semester, which is 7.8% more. On the runways, a total of 87,434 aircraft landed and took off during this same time frame, an 8.2% increase, consolidating Malaga Airport as the fourth most important in the country and the fastest-growing among these top four. These figures "make this first semester the busiest in the history of the infrastructure," highlight Aena, noting that of the 12,371,429 users who traveled on commercial flights, 2,066,261 were domestic, marking a 2.4% increase, and 10,305,168 were international, with a strong upward trend of 9%.

June's activity was frenetic. The control tower had to coordinate an average of 601 operations daily, a figure that demonstrates the dynamism of facilities where Aena recorded 2.6 million passengers, representing an 8.2% growth. The runways saw 18,045 flight movements, also up by 8.2%. Of the total passengers last month, 427,219 traveled on flights originating from or destined to a Spanish city, up by 8.8%, while 2,201,927 opted for connections abroad, growing by 8.1%.

Regarding international traffic, Aena points out that the markets with the highest demand in absolute terms in the first six months of the year were the UK, with more than 2.8 million users, followed by Germany with 926,746; the Netherlands with 773,669; and Italy with 681,537.

2,632,385

is the number of passengers that passed through Malaga Airport last June, an 8.2% increase compared to the same period in 2024

It's worth remembering that in 2024, the airport closed a semester without precedent by gaining one and a half million more passengers than in the same period the previous year and surpassing for the first time the eleven million passenger mark in six months, even nearing 11.5 million, specifically 11,494,109, who traveled on 80,788 flights.

All this, after growing the volume of passengers by 14.1% and operations by almost 10% compared to the same period last year. Aena justified this upward trend due to the pull maintained by both the domestic market, with increases of almost seven points, and the foreign market, with an increase of about 19%. This surge resulted in 61,744 of the 80,788 total aircraft movements in the first half of this year being international, i.e., a 13% increase.

Last year, June was a golden clasp for a semester in which records were continuously broken. The intense activity led it to become the month with the highest number of passengers in its history, thus dethroning July 2023, which held this title and closed with 2,432,411 users. However, the record for operations, which stands at 17,320, was not surpassed. Specifically, the airport served 2,433,242 users, an 11.6%, who traveled on the 16,677 flights that landed and took off on the runways, an 8% increase.

Aena points out that last month was the best June in history both across the network and in 20 airports: Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas, Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat, Palma de Mallorca, Malaga-Costa del Sol, Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández, Ibiza, Gran Canaria, Valencia, Tenerife South, Seville, César Manrique-Lanzarote, Bilbao, Tenerife North-Ciudad de La Laguna, Menorca, Fuerteventura, Asturias, Melilla, La Gomera, Badajoz, and Son Bonet. Additionally, it was reported that June saw the most aircraft movements across the network, as well as in 15 infrastructures: Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat, Palma de Mallorca, Malaga-Costa del Sol, Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández, Ibiza, Gran Canaria, Tenerife South, César Manrique-Lanzarote, Tenerife North-Ciudad de La Laguna, Menorca, Fuerteventura, Federico García Lorca Granada-Jaén, Logroño, Son Bonet, and Sabadell.

Furthermore, they explain that the airports of the Aena Group (comprising 46 airports and two heliports in Spain, London-Luton Airport, and 17 airports in Brazil) closed last June with 35,758,181 passengers, a 3.8% increase compared to the same month in 2024; they managed 300,606 aircraft movements, a 2.9% increase compared to 2024; and transported 119,475 tons of cargo, a 4.9% increase from the previous year.