The airports of Valencia and Alicante-Elche have closed the period January-November with a total of 8,903,893 passengers, 59.8% fewer travellers than in the same period of 2019, so the Valencian airports are at 40,2% of the data from two years ago.
According to the information published this Monday by the airport manager, Aena, which does not include data from the Castellón aerodrome, in the January-November period the Alicante-Elche airport has received a total of 5,282,775 passengers, still far from the 14,174,615 it received in 2019, while 3,621,118 have passed through Valencia, compared to 7,943,434 in 2019.
In this month of November, Alicante airport has registered 704,527 travellers, which represents a decrease of 62.7% compared to 2019, but an increase of 46.2 compared to 2020, which makes it the sixth airport with more passengers in the penultimate month of the year.
For its part, the València airport, ninth national by passengers, has received 3,621,118 people, 51.3% more than in 2020, but 54.4% fewer travellers than in 2019, when through the Manises aerodrome 619,664 people passed.
Regarding the preferred destinations, Alicante has received since January a total of 267,938 passengers from Amsterdam-Schiphol airport, an area, the Benelux, from / to which 246,891 people also flew to Brussels, which becomes thus in the second preferred destination of the airport, above Manchester -third- or other British cities.
However, the country with which Alicante has operated the most has been the United Kingdom, to which a total of 1,259,079 people have travelled -or from which they have come-, a number that exceeds that of national passengers, who are estimated at 883,828 so far this year.
As for the Valencia airport, Palma de Mallorca is the destination with which it shares the most passengers, with a total of 308,529, an airport followed by Amsterdam -204,058 people- and Ibiza -195,791-.
Regarding countries, 1,304,112 people have travelled to the national territory, in a classification in which Italy is the first foreign country, with 414,493 passengers, and in which Switzerland has suffered a positive variation of 117.3% until reaching 128,885 passengers from January to November.