With 7.1% more travelers, 695,099 people in total, the César Manrique-Lanzarote airport experienced the largest increase in passengers in July compared to 2019 data from all over the archipelago, growth only surpassed by the airport of La Gomera, where an increase of 21.2% was recorded.
The airports of Fuerteventura and La Palma also recorded positive data with a growth in the number of travelers of 4.3%, and 4% respectively for the same period compared to 2019. The Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna airport grew by 0.9% while the number of passengers who landed in El Hierro was 3.9% higher.
The data was not so flattering for the airports of the Archipelago with the highest passenger traffic, Gran Canaria and Tenerife Sur, which with 1,068,205 passengers (-0.1%) and 879,562 travelers (-1.4%) respectively fail to fully reach pre-covid levels.
The Canary Islands airports received 1.8% more travelers
The global calculation of all the Canary Islands airports gives a positive balance of 1.8% more travelers with a total of 3,890,351 more people in July of this year compared to 2019.
Of the total commercial passengers to the Canary Islands (3,864,890), 1,797,221 correspond to national traffic, 2.3% more, and 2,067,669 to international traffic, 1.7% more than in the same month of 2019.
Of the total commercial operations (33,888), 21,559 (+0.7%) were national and 12,329 (+3.9%) international. Regarding the traffic of goods, 2,309 tons were transported, a figure that represents a recovery of 81.6% compared to the same month of the year 2019.
Between January and July 2022, the Canary Islands reached 91.3% of travelers of pre-covid levels
In the first seven months of the year, the number of passengers registered in the Canary Islands airports amounts to 23,786,209, with a recovery of 91.3% compared to the same period of 2019.
Of the total commercial passengers (23,549,356), 9,733,282 correspond to national flights, which represents a recovery of 94.8% compared to the total accumulated in the month of July of the year 2019, and 13,816,074 to international flights, 88.7% recovery compared to the same period of 2019.
The number of operations registered between January and July 2022 was 226,945, with a recovery of 95.1% compared to the same period of the year 2019, and the traffic of goods accounted for so far is 18,327 tons, which represents a recovery of 86.3% of the figures of the year 2019.
