ENAIRE managed 119,186 flights across Spain in February, a rise of 3.4%
International flights grew the most (6%), to 66,664.
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ENAIRE, the air navigation manager in Spain, handled 119,186 flights in February, 3.4% more than the same month in 2016. 2016 was a leap year, so there was one more day.Se trata del mes número 41 de crecimiento ininterrumpido del tráfico aéreo.
It was the 41st month in a row of uninterrupted air traffic growth.
Growth was strongest amongst international flights, which climbed to 66,664, or 6% more than in February last year. They accounted for 56% of the total traffic in Spain in February.
There were 26,298 overflights (those that neither start nor end at a Spanish airport), a rise of 3.3%.
Traffic was up across all ENAIRE control centres: Palma (6.6%, 9,574 flights), Seville (6.2%, 24,340 flights), Madrid (4.3%, 73,297 flights), Canaries (3.8%, 25,638 flights) and Barcelona (3.1%, 47,203 flights).
2017 Cumulative Figures
The cumulative figures for January and February show that ENAIRE managed 244,907 flights across Spain, 5.7% more. Of these, 137,132 were international flights, the segment that grew the most, at 8.4%.
In cumulative figures, the number of flights managed rose across all the control centres: Palma (7.1%, 19,072 flights), Canaries (6.5%, 53,854 flights), Madrid (6.1%, 150,846 flights), Seville (5.9%, 49,782 flights) and Barcelona (5.3%, 96,344 flights).
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