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Madrid is Europe’s fifth busiest airport; Iberia, Air Europa and Ryanair account for 74% of capacity

Last year Madrid ranked as Europe’s fifth busiest airport (after Istanbul IST, London LHR, Paris CDG and Amsterdam) handling 50.6m passengers. For comparison, in 2019 it also ranked fifth with 61.7m passengers, meaning that last year’s traffic was 18% lower than in the last pre-pandemic year. The dramatic drop in passenger numbers between 2011 and […]

March 13, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story

Ryanair is the Canary Islands biggest foreign operator; Tenerife TFS and Lanzarote bases to reopen in S23

Ryanair has confirmed that its Tenerife TFS and Lanzarote bases will reopen at the start of S23. Both opened in 2011 and closed in early 2020 as a result of the pandemic, although flights continued using non-stationed aircraft. It also had a base at Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, but whether that will reopen is so […]

December 8, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story

Spanish air traffic recovery at 92% in July; traffic above 2019 levels at seven of top 16 airports

Passenger data for July from Aena reveals that Spain’s airports handled just over 27 million passengers. That is only 8% fewer than in July 2019. Among the top 16 airports (all of which handled at least 350,000 passengers in July) almost half actually saw an increase in passenger throughput compared with three years earlier. Leading […]

August 31, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story

Spanish airport traffic reaches 70% of pre-pandemic levels in October; Madrid welcomed over 3m pax

Latest passenger figures from Aena show that Spain’s airports handled 17.3 million passengers in October, which was 30% fewer than in October 2019, but almost 290% more than in October 2020. This means that demand in October was at 70% of the level of two years ago. This is a significant improvement on the 52% […]

November 24, 2021 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis

Spanish traffic down 40% in September; Tenerife TFN leads recovery rankings with 83%

September passenger data for Spanish airports, published recently by Aena, shows that the country’s airports handled 16.32m passengers last month. That is three times as many as in September 2020 (5.46m), but still 40% fewer than in September 2019 (27.14m). In August, the airports had welcomed 18.01m passengers which was 39% down on the same […]

October 15, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis

New Route of the Day (2 September 2021): airBaltic between Riga and Tenerife Sur

airBaltic launched its longest ever intra-European route when it began weekly service on Thursday 2 September between Riga in Latvia and Tenerife Sur in Spain. The inaugural service on the 4,511-kilometre route (flight number BT 761 operated by an Airbus A220-300, registration YL-CSE) departed Riga at 08:37 and touched down in Tenerife just under six […]

September 6, 2021 | Latest Route News +

Moscow home to Europe’s two busiest airports in May as Istanbul IST slips to third

Passenger statistics collected by The ANKER Report, covering over 340 airports across Europe, reveals that Moscow Domodedovo was Europe’s busiest airport in May, handling just over 2.2 million passengers, down just 11% compared with May 2019. It edged out its city rival Moscow Sheremetyevo which welcomed just under 2.2 million travellers, which was 47% fewer […]

July 1, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, Top Story