ENAIRE managed 2 million flights in 2017

An average of 5,500 flights per day

ENAIRE, the company of the Fomento Group that manages air traffic in Spain, has completed a historic 2017, with a total of 2 million flights, i.e. 126,000 flights more than in 2016.

The annual growth rate of 6.7% has been much higher than that registered in Europe on average, which is 4.1%.

Out of the total of flights (exactly 1,992,399), 1,189,806 have been international flights (6 out of each 10), that is, 6.9% more; 390,461, national flights (4.9% more); and 412,132 overflights (8.2% more).

The top months of flights managed were July and August, with over 209,000 flights in each month.

Air traffic in our country has registered an interrupted growth spanning 4 years. This rate has allowed Spain to overtake the United States, and it has become the second worldwide tourist destination, with 82 million international tourists in 2017.

Air traffic managed in all ENAIRE control centres grows:

Air traffic grows in all ENAIRE control centres: Seville (+9.2% and 380,536 flights), Canary Islands (+8.2% and 331,980), Madrid (+7.7% and 1,089,675), Barcelona (+5.7% and 914,940) and Palma (+5.4% and 311,104).

2020 Flight Plan

ENAIRE enters the second year of execution of its Strategic Plan: the 2020 Flight Plan, which sets the organisation's road map in its path towards excellence in safety, efficiency, competitiveness, technological modernisation, innovation, digital transformation, internationalisation and environmental sustainability. This is all aimed at conquering the challenge of a Single European Sky.

The Plan foresees a suitable provision of air traffic controllers in order to fulfil the capacity needs in an environment of growing demand, as well as to improve the airspace's efficiency, which will result in better quality services for the users of our airspace. In the last 2 years ENAIRE has offered 236 new air traffic controller positions.

About ENAIRE

The public corporate entity ENAIRE is a company designated by the Ministry of Public Works to manage the fourth largest airspace in Europe in terms of traffic through 5 control centres, 22 control towers and a network of air traffic infrastructure and equipment.