Aena will continue to reimburse airlines for the average passenger fare during the winter season, which begins on October 30, taking into account both the occupancy level and the different markets. In this way, Aena will reduce this fare by half for flights with 80% occupancy on short-haul flights and operations with Latin America. The incentive will be 100% from 70% occupancy on all other long-haul flights.
The company states that it has decided to maintain the incentive scheme in force during the summer season in order to "continue to promote the occupancy rate on flights, that is, the percentage of seats that are full." The measure will be extended until the last weekend of March.
From the entity they assure that they continue betting with this measure for the reactivation of the Asian market and the connections with North America and the Middle East, which have experienced a more gradual growth than other markets such as the domestic, European, African and Latin American markets.
The offer of seats by the airlines for the winter season exceeds the figures of 2019, the year prior to the pandemic in which Aena registered the best passenger data in its history. In this context, the manager wants to continue promoting the recovery of passenger traffic with these incentives to the occupancy factor.
The incentives reach 100 million euros
Since July 2020, the date on which mobility began to be restored after the confinement caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and until last August, Aena has applied reimbursements in commercial incentives to airlines worth more than 100 million euros. In any case, this figure may still vary depending on the behavior of traffic in the months remaining of the summer season.
In the first eight months of the year, the airports of the Aena network have recovered 85.3% of traffic compared to the same period of 2019, with a total of 159,308,824 passengers.
