Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport establishes yet another record. This time, with 1,850,620 passengers last May, it surpassed its all-time high for this period, representing a 5.8% increase over the same month in 2024.
El Altet’s infrastructure is surpassing all records by 2025, with five monthly installments already exceeding previous marks.
According to Aena, international traffic continued to dominate at Alicante airport in May, growing by 7.5% to 1,624,664 registered passengers.
Domestic travel, on the other hand, totalled 224,623 passengers, a 5% reduction from commercial traffic and the same period the previous year.
The United Kingdom continues to top the foreign market by nationality, with 637,443 travellers, followed by Germany (112,760), the Netherlands (111,597), Belgium (88,876), and France (87,450).
Flights have kept pace, increasing by 6.2% since May 2024. A total of 11,697 surgeries were recorded, setting another record in this category.
These results indicate that the Miguel Hernández terminal can accommodate peaks of up to 60,000 people per day, an unprecedented number. Aena points out to EL ESPAÑOL that the successful deseasonalization reflects in the extension of these flight schedules, since there are more flights during times when there was not as much traffic previously.
Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport handled 7,282,785 passengers in the first five months of 2025, up 10.9% from the same period last year.
In terms of flights, the overall number from January to May was 46,681, an increase of 11.5% from 2024.
3,699,742 passengers had already been registered in the first quarter of this year. The number was 14.6 points higher than during the same period in 2024. 24,094 flights, which increased by 16.2% between January and March, drove these figures.
In 2024, Alicante airport had its best year ever, with 18 million passengers, a figure it aims to greatly exceed in 2025, approaching 20 million for the first time since its establishment.
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