The ENAIRE Control Centre in Palma managed 13,242 flights in March

There were 6,222 international flights and 6,953 domestic ones

The ENAIRE Control Centre in Palma de Mallorca managed 13,242 flights in March, 2.8% down on the same month in 2016. Easter fell in March this year.

ENAIRE, the air navigation manager in Spain, recorded a total of 6,222 international flights in Palma, some 8.9% fewer.

There were 6,953 domestic flights, a rise of 3.2 %. There were 67 overflights (those that cross the Balearic Island airspace and that neither start nor end at a Spanish airport).

Cumulative figures

In the first quarter of the year, the ENAIRE Control Centre in Palma managed 32,314 flights, 2.8% more, of which 13,331 were international (0.5%), 18,811 were domestic (4.5%) and 172 were overflights (11%).

Total flights managed by ENAIRE

ENAIRE managed 140,715 flights across Spain in March, a rise of 4.4% over the same month last year. It was the 42nd month in a row of uninterrupted air traffic growth.

Growth was strongest amongst international flights, which climbed to 79,314, or 4.6% more than last March.

There were 30,226 overflights (those that neither start nor end at a Spanish airport) (6.3 %).

Traffic was up across nearly all ENAIRE control centres: Seville (7.9%, 29,121 flights), Madrid (5.7%, 83,843 flights), Canaries (4.8%, 28,398 flights), Barcelona (3.1%, 58,453 flights) and Palma (-2.8 %, 13,242 flights).

The cumulative figures for January to March show that ENAIRE managed 385,622 flights across Spain, 5.2% more. Of these, international flights (216,446) grew the most, at 6.9%, and accounted for 56% of total traffic in Spain.

Of note was the fact that in the first quarter of the year, Spain’s growth (5.2%) far outpaced the European average (2.7%)