Canary’s airports had 4.3 million passengers in March, 17% more than last year

The latest data released today shows that the airports in the Canary Islands served 4,328,188 passengers in March, exceeding the numbers for the same month of 2019 by 2.5%, and increasing the figures for March 2022 by 17.6% signifying that tourism in the archipelago has well and truly recovered.

As reported by AENA in a press release, some 38,450 flights were managed in March alone, which is 3.1% more than in 2019 and an increase of 11.3% over 2022. In addition, 2,831 tons of freight was handled, which represents a recovery of 83.3% compared to the same month of 2019.

4,264,949 of the total number of passengers in March were on commercial flights, of which 2,689,388 were international travellers and 1,575,561 were on domestic flights.

By airports, Gran Canaria registered the highest number of passengers in the third month of the year with 1,290,562 passengers, which represents a 99% recovery over March 2019 and an increase of 22.1% compared to the same month last year.

That is followed by Tenerife South Airport, which with 1,158,755 passengers registers an increase of 4.6% compared to 2019 and 16.4% over 2022; César Manrique-Lanzarote with 692,985 (+3.6% and +14%, respectively); Fuerteventura, with 541,932 (+6.3% and +12.9%); Tenerife North with 493,829 (+5.5% and +17.3%); La Palma, with 119,011 (-13.2% and +30.9%), and El Hierro, with 23,205 (+16.1% and +11.9%).

More than 12 million passengers so far this year:
So far this year, the Canary Islands airports have registered 12,167,163 passengers, exceeding the accumulated data from January to March 2019 by 5.3% and those of 2022 by 29.4%.

7,650,390 of these were on international flights (1.2% more compared to the accumulated figure of 2019 and 30.5% more compared to the same period in 2022) and 4,345,777 were on domestic flights (11% more than before the pandemic and 27.5% more than last year).