BUSY JULY FOR LOCAL AIRPORTS

Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport registered a total of 1,713,090 passengers this July, an increase of 12.7% compared to the same month in 2022. Of the total number of travellers, 1,484,306 travelled on international flights, 14.7% more than last July, and 226,503 were on national routes, 0.8% more than last year. Thus, 10,584 aircraft took off from the Elche infrastructure last month, exceeding the movements of the same period of the previous year by 8.2%. A total of 579,627 trav- ellers arrived from the United Kingdom or went to the British Isles, followed by Norway, with 122,587 travellers; Germany, with 103,885; The Netherlands, with 98,930; and Sweden, with 83,726.

Alicante-Elche Airport closes the first seven months of 2023 with a figure of 8,785,549 passengers, which also implies a growth of 21.6% with the previous year, in addition to increasing by 12.1 % of flights from January to July with a total of 56,413 routes.

Meanwhile, at the southern end of the area, the Region of Murcia International Airport, known by many as Corvera, registered a total of 497,566 travellers between January and July. This figure represents an increase of 6% compared to the same period in 2022. Of the total number of passengers, 493,816 used commercial flights and 450,341 of them corresponded to international traffic, 6% more than in the first seven months of the previous year.

Regarding the movement of aircraft, a total of 3,839 operated at the airport between January and July (0.4% more than in 2022). Of these operations, 3,493 were of a commercial nature, and international traffic was the majority, with a total of 3,020 flights. During the month of July, 117,459 passengers used the facilities of the Región de Murcia International Airport, which also registered 819 landing and take-off operations. Because you’re no doubt itching to know, the year before San Javier airport closed (2018), there were 1,273,424 passengers served, and so, for the 7 months of this year Corvera saw 71,000 per month on average, whereas San Javier in its last year averaged 106,000 per month. In fact, San Javier has outperformed Corvera, and by a considerable margin, every year for the 15 years of data available prior to closing.