There were 6,222 international flights and 6,953 domestic ones
The ENAIRE Control Centre in Palma de Mallorca managed 13,242 flights in March, 2.8% down on the same month in 2016. Easter fell in March this year.
ENAIRE, the air navigation manager in Spain, recorded a total of 6,222 international flights in Palma, some 8.9% fewer.
There were 6,953 domestic flights, a rise of 3.2 %. There were 67 overflights (those that cross the Balearic Island airspace and that neither start nor end at a Spanish airport).
Cumulative figures
In the first quarter of the year, the ENAIRE Control Centre in Palma managed 32,314 flights, 2.8% more, of which 13,331 were international (0.5%), 18,811 were domestic (4.5%) and 172 were overflights (11%).
Total flights managed by ENAIRE
ENAIRE managed 140,715 flights across Spain in March, a rise of 4.4% over the same month last year. It was the 42nd month in a row of uninterrupted air traffic growth.
Growth was strongest amongst international flights, which climbed to 79,314, or 4.6% more than last March.
There were 30,226 overflights (those that neither start nor end at a Spanish airport) (6.3 %).
Traffic was up across nearly all ENAIRE control centres: Seville (7.9%, 29,121 flights), Madrid (5.7%, 83,843 flights), Canaries (4.8%, 28,398 flights), Barcelona (3.1%, 58,453 flights) and Palma (-2.8 %, 13,242 flights).
The cumulative figures for January to March show that ENAIRE managed 385,622 flights across Spain, 5.2% more. Of these, international flights (216,446) grew the most, at 6.9%, and accounted for 56% of total traffic in Spain.
Of note was the fact that in the first quarter of the year, Spain’s growth (5.2%) far outpaced the European average (2.7%)