Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport set another record high in September, completing the summer weather cycle. According to official statistics provided last Monday by the state airport operator Aena, the terminal in the Altet district saw 1,907,274 passengers at the end of that month. That was a 5.9% rise over the same time last year.
Once again, this number is due to the good performance of foreign traffic, particularly at the provincial airport, which saw an 8% rise in registered passengers to 1,685,462, according to the same sources. There were also no surprises about where most of the visitors to this overseas market came from. The UK had the most visitors in September, with 653,522. Germany came in second with 118,783, followed by the Netherlands with 110,166, Belgium with 92,439, and France with 89,730.
Domestic traffic, on the other hand, saw 220,205 passengers, which is 8% fewer than the same time last year. This backs up what we’ve seen in recent monthly reports: the trend is towards going back to the numbers we saw before the coronavirus outbreak. This drop was even bigger in August, which is still thought of as the best holiday month in Spain, at 10.9%.
No matter what, worldwide demand keeps pushing the numbers up. September ended with another record number of flights, with a total of 11,691 operations handled. This total is a 4.7% rise over the same month in 2024.
On the way to another record year
If nothing unexpected happens, this growth will help the airport stay on track to break another historic yearly record. It has already served 15,317,278 passengers in the first nine months of 2025, which is 8.7% more than the same time last year. There were 95,524 flights from January to September, which is 8.5% more than in 2024.
With this, the Miguel Hernández Airport is only three million passengers away from breaking the record of 18,387,387 passengers set last year. But everything points to the fact that, if things keep going the way they are, the growth rate at the end of the year will be a little lower than it was in 2024. The traffic went grown by 16.8% compared to 2023.
The Aena Group’s airports, which include 46 airports and two heliports in Spain, London Luton Airport, and 17 airports in Brazil, closed in September 2025 with 35,760,852 passengers, 2.7% more than the same month in 2024. They also handled 299,292 aircraft movements, 2.4% more than in 2024, and 132,905 tonnes of cargo, 9.9% more than last year.
Author: Derek Appleton
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