Canary Island airports see 5.1% drop in passengers

A total of 15.5 million passengers passed through Canarian airports in the first semester of 2013, which represents a 5.1% decrease when compared to figures from the same period last year (2012) according to figures published by AENA. From January to June 2013 there were a total of 143,693 operations, which also represents a decrease, of 12.1%, when compared to the same period last year. Seven of the eight airports in the Canary Islands saw passenger numbers drop with the exception of La Gomera, which experienced an increase of 7.1%.

Gran Canaria’s Gando airport lost 5.6% of passengers in the period of January – June 2013 totalling 4.6 million passengers, and 11.2% fewer operations (46,303). Followed by Tenerife’s South Airport, with a decrease of 0.5% of passengers (4.2 million passengers) with 4.6% fewer operations (27,354). Lanzarote ranked third with over 2.4 million passengers in the first six months of the year (1.5% less than in the same period in 2012) reducing its operations by 8.8%, with 20,640 takeoffs and landings.

Nationally, a total of 84.8 million passengers passed through AENA airports in Spain from January until June 2013, which is 5.9% less than last year. In this period there were 841,406 operations (-10.6%).