Málaga airport passenger numbers soar

Terminal 3, Málaga-Costa del Sol Airport

Figures released just two days ago – on 11 October 2011 – by Spanish airports authority AENA – show that for the first time since the current economic crisis took its strangle-hold on tourism, passenger and flight numbers at Málaga-Costa del Sol airport have once more returned to the levels not previously registered since 2008.

In other words, significantly breaking through the 10 million passengers in 9 months barrier. Still way below the state-of-the-art airport’s capacity, but enormously encouraging nonetheless.

The actual figures recorded? Well, to be exact, 10.2 million passengers have passed through the airport doors between January and September 2011. That equates to a very healthy passenger increase of 8.6%, plus an additional 3.6% of flights compared with the same period in 2010. And 38.07% of those passengers have been flying to, or from the UK, followed by passengers travelling on domestic flights and, in third position, to or from airports in Germany.

Málaga-Costa del Sol airport’s busiest days? The first three Sundays in September, with 406 flights landing on the 4^th; 56,200 passengers on the 11^th; and 6,115 passengers and 41 take-offs and landings between 9 and 10am alone on the 18^th.

And all that’s before the second runway comes online in January 2012!