The Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport’s passenger flow has been consistently setting new records. This pattern continued at the tail end of January, when the provincial airfield set a new record by carrying more than one million passengers. With 1,057,214 passengers in the first month of 2025, the result reflects a gain of 10.3% compared to the 958,088 passengers reported in the same month last year. Up until then, the most enjoyable January in the series had been 2024.
Aena data shows that, with 891,101 registered passengers, international traffic climbed by 10.6% and remains the leading source of passengers. There were 165,688 passengers recorded for domestic transportation, which represents a 9.5% increase. This is in comparison to business traffic and the corresponding period previous year.
As before, the UK topped the worldwide market with 296,539 tourists; next came the Netherlands with 80,379; Belgium with 67,608; Germany with 66,290; and Poland with 65,387. Similarly, Alicante Airport had 7,123 aeroplane operations in May, a 10.1% increase over the same month in 2024, and a record amount of passengers for the airport overall.
Having reached a new milestone in the first month of 2025, the terminal in the Elche district of El Altet continues to face another set of challenges that started to pile up last spring. Since then, the monthly passenger totals have surpassed one million, and 2024 ended with an all-time high of over 18.3 million passengers. This record showed a 16% rise compared to 2023 estimates and also made it the aerodrome with the fastest yearly growth rate among the five airport facilities in the country, surpassing Malaga airport.
This pattern of behaviour is being repeated using January data, which shows that the Alicante terminal saw a 10.3% increase, which is more than the growth observed by the top five airports in terms of traffic volume. The following airports experienced growth: Adolfo Suárez Madrid Barajas (8.4%), El Prat (5.4%), Gran Canaria (6.2%), Málaga (1.9%), and Tenerife (6.8%). But as we begin this new year, the provincial airport is in sixth place overall, well below all of them. Tenerife is in fifth place, with 1,287,940 passengers, while Málaga achieved 1,369,837.
Author: Derek Appleton
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