SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE/MADRID, Oct. 24 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The airlines have scheduled 27 million seats at the Canary Islands airports for the winter season, which represents an increase of 26.8% compared to the 2019 winter season, a percentage that does not take into account the adjustment for the impact that COVID-19 had on the last 2 weeks of March 2020, which were greatly affected by the imposition of mobility restrictions.
These historical figures for tourist traffic in relation to the number of scheduled seats consolidate the Canary Islands destination as a reference place to visit, according to Aena.
In the international market, the offer of seats increases, with 33% more seats than in the winter season of 2019, adding a total of 17.1 million seats, while in the national market the increase is 17 %, with 9.8 million scheduled seats with destinations between Spanish airports.
At an inter-island level, the winter campaign will have an offer of 4.9 million seats, 4% more than in the same period of 2019.
The number of scheduled movements also increased by 20.4%, with 183,182 commercial operations.
By airports, those that incorporate a greater number of new routes for the winter season are those of Grupo Canarias, with 73.
Especially significant are the figures for César Manrique-Lanzarote Airport, with 30 more routes, and Gran Canaria Airport, with 29.
By number of scheduled seats, Gran Canaria airport is in the lead, with 8.2 million, 24% more than in 2019.
Of these, almost 5 million have an international origin/destination (31% more than in 2019), and 3.2 million other points in Spain, which increase by 18% compared to 2019.
For its part, Tenerife Sur has an offer of 7 million seats (36% more) of which 6.4 million will be for international flights (35% more) and 553,554 for flights within the national territory (a 56% more).
It is followed by the César Manrique-Lanzarote Airport, which of the 4.4 million seats scheduled with the island (+39.3%) has almost 3 million destined for international flights (+40%) and for national territory, almost 1 .4 million (+38%).
As for the Fuerteventura Airport, of the more than 3.4 million seats offered (+34%), almost 2.6 million seats are for international flights (+44%) and 862,220 for domestic flights (+12%) .
From the Tenerife North Airport-Ciudad de La Laguna, 3 million seats have been offered, with an increase of 6.2% and with a breakdown of 2.9 million for national traffic and 31,690 for international traffic.
In the case of La Palma, with 781,302 seats, 620,948 national and 160,354 international seats have been scheduled.
Finally, the airlines will offer 145,424 seats at El Hierro airport and 78,596 scheduled seats at La Gomera, all of them to inter-island destinations.
116.8 MILLION SEATS THROUGHOUT SPAIN
At a national level, the airlines have scheduled 116.8 million seats and almost 677,000 commercial operations at the airports of the Aena network for the winter season, which starts on October 30 and will last until March 25, 2023 .
This implies 5.3% more seats than those operated in the same 2019-2020 season, before the pandemic, once the data is adjusted for weeks and taking into account that the last two weeks of March 2020 were very affected by the imposition of mobility restrictions.
Without these adjustments, the increase would be 11.8%, according to the airport manager.
The airports from which the most seats are offered are Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas, with more than 29.7 million, and Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat, with 21.6 million. Both facilities already exceed the figures for the 2019 winter season by 6 and 3%, respectively.
