THE AIRPORT PERSPECTIVE: Spain

Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. Alongside looking at the market's historical development over the past 30 years, we take the following week's schedule as a snapshot and compare weekly seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

SPANISH DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Madrid Barajas (MAD)

1,467

217,105

22.8 %

(-10.7) %

2

Barcelona El Prat (BCN)

1,017

171,624

18.0 %

(-4.0) %

3

Palma Son Sant Joan (PMI)

535

74,678

7.9 %

(-18.8) %

4

Tenerife Norte (TFN)

591

57,545

6.1 %

(-0.1) %

5

Las Palmas Gran Canaria (LPA)

582

57,339

6.0 %

(-8.2) %

6

Bilbao Sondica (BIO)

287

42,712

4.5 %

8.0 %

7

Seville San Pablo (SVQ)

250

39,108

4.1 %

(-15.6) %

8

Malaga Pablo Ruiz Picasso (AGP)

226

32,379

3.4 %

(-8.4) %

9

Ibiza (IBZ)

214

27,071

2.8 %

(-2.1) %

10

Santiago De Compostela (SCQ)

144

22,812

2.4 %

(-17.5) %

(Others)

1,888

208,466

21.9 %

(-15.6) %

TOTAL

7,201

950,839

-

(-10.1) %

HOME AIRPORT: SPANISH INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Madrid Barajas(MAD)

2,222

386,723

26.0 %

(-6.4) %

2

Barcelona El Prat (BCN)

1,763

297,236

20.0 %

8.0 %

3

Palma Son Sant Joan (PMI)

1,140

218,322

14.7 %

5.6 %

4

Malaga Pablo Ruiz Picasso (AGP)

727

125,276

8.4 %

(-5.6) %

5

Alicante El Altet (ALC)

510

91,056

6.1 %

(-14.2) %

6

Tenerife Sur Reina Sofia (TFS)

268

53,922

3.6 %

(-1.8) %

7

Valencia (VLC)

246

41,231

2.8 %

1.1 %

8

Girona – Costa Brava (GRO)

212

40,033

2.7 %

5.1 %

9

Ibiza (IBZ)

204

37,261

2.5 %

(-5.9) %

10

Las Palmas Gran Canaria (LPA)

185

34,602

2.3 %

(-5.5) %

(Others)

949

159,945

10.8 %

(-12.8) %

TOTAL

8,426

1,485,607

-

(-2.7) %

DESTINATION AIRPORT: SPANISH INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

London Gatwick (LGW)

356

64,163

4.3 %

(-10.3) %

2

Manchester (MAN)

232

46,730

3.1 %

3.5 %

3

Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS)

264

46,291

3.1 %

(-10.8) %

4

Frankfurt (FRA)

218

41,996

2.8 %

(-1.4) %

5

Paris Orly (ORY)

244

40,659

2.7 %

0.1 %

6

London Stansted (STN)

223

39,833

2.7 %

(-10.8) %

7

Paris CDG (CDG)

264

39,367

2.6 %

(-7.9) %

8

Düsseldorf International (DUS)

202

37,498

2.5 %

0.3 %

9

Munich Franz Josef Strauss (MUC)

191

34,219

2.3 %

(-0.2) %

10

London Heathrow (LHR)

168

30,228

2.0 %

2.5 %

(Others)

6,064

1,064,623

71.7 %

(-2.1) %

TOTAL

8,426

1,485,607

-

(-2.7) %

Richard Maslen

Richard Maslen has travelled across the globe to report on developments in the aviation sector as airlines and airports have continued to evolve and…