Malaga Airport, from record to record: closes its best August in history

Málaga-Costa del Sol Airport continues to break records, and its potential seems limitless. The terminals have just experienced their best August ever, handling over 2.8 million passengers and nearly 19,300 flights during the main vacation month, marking an 8% increase.

The statistics from Spanish Airports (Aena) highlight the strength of international connections to and from the Costa del Sol, which last month accounted for about 2.4 million users; while domestic routes moved close to half a million.

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million passengers have used these facilities from January to August this year.

Thus, in the first eight months of 2025, more than 18 million travelers and 126,534 landings and takeoffs have been recorded. If this trend continues through the end of the year, the figure will approach 27 million, far exceeding the 25 million from the previous year.

These facilities are a city in themselves. On average, more than 92,000 people passed through the terminals daily last August. Aena notes that there has been a significant increase in national traffic, with 482,355 passengers between Spanish cities (almost 14% more than in the same period last year); while 2,377,756 opted for connections abroad (+7%).

Connections with the highest growth

Regarding foreign traffic, the markets with the highest demand in absolute terms were, once again, the United Kingdom (698,456); followed by Germany (213,215); France (168,392); the Netherlands (159,961); Italy (140,884); Belgium (101,696); Poland (86,584) and Morocco (83,404).

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landing and takeoff operations have been managed so far in 2025.

However, in terms of growth rate, the largest percentage increases correspond to flights with the United Arab Emirates (81.4% more); Hungary (+34.2%); Poland (+30.5%); Canada (+20.3%) and Morocco (+20.5%).

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In terms of operations, Málaga Airport also achieved record figures, with 19,286 flights, of which 19,036 were commercial and 250 were executive aviation (private jets), which also increased significantly.

Traffic evolution

With these figures, the year 2025 is on track to set a new milestone in the aeronautical history of the province. In these eight months, from January to August, it has already totaled 18,123,696 passengers, representing a 7.8% increase. Therefore, if this average increase is applied to the end of 2024, the result is almost two million more users, so 2025 might reach 27 million.

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million users will pass through these facilities by the end of the year, provided the current growth rate of close to 8% is maintained.

This figure is already very close to the maximum threshold for which this infrastructure was designed just over a decade ago, which is 30 million. Hence, Aena has already launched projects for its future expansion in the next decade, which will give it a capacity of over 36 million, especially on days and hours of maximum saturation.

So far this year, more than three million had origin or destination in national territory (+5.5% over January-August last year); while 15 million came or went abroad (+8.4%). During the reference period, the airport operated 126,534 flights, of which 124,345 were commercial (+7.9%) and 2,189 were private.