Airport Passenger Numbers in 2019

[Captain Sensible]

I've translated this from the local press yesterday -

The May statistics confirm the decline of international visitors to the island, with the arrival of 137,053 passengers (18 percent less than in the same month of 2018.) The German market, which brings the most visitors to Fuerteventura , suffered especially, with a 25% drop (47,328 arrived). The British market, the second in importance on the Island, which resists, brought in 52,229 passengers, which is 8% less than May 2018. The number of French visitors dropped by more than 33%.
Between January and May 2019 there has been a drop of 12.29% of tourists from other countries (a total of 114,196 people). Germany has registered a 20% decrease and Italy 23% in these months, with the United Kingdom tourists, decreasing by 2.26%.
The good news, for the main economic sector of the island, is that passengers from the Peninsula and the Canary Islands increased in May by 9.63%. Inter-island tourism grew 2.07% while tourism from the peninsular increased dramatically, by 23.53%, standing at 26,668 travellers.
By provinces, Madrid provided the most passengers, with 12,783; followed by Barcelona (6.415), Seville (2.867), Bilbao (1.736), Malaga (1.291), Santiago de Compostela (1.228) and Valencia (348).
So, there has been an increase in arrivals from the Peninsula of almost 20% between January and May, compared to the same period in 2018 (119,860). The number of passengers, from the other islands,  also increased by 4% (182,746).
The manager of the Tourist Board, Moisés Jorge, has identified several reasons for the drop in tourist numbers: -The loss of flights due to the bankruptcies of several companies; the reduction of frequencies in some of them due to the flight ban of Boeing 737 Max aircraft throughout Europe; good Weather in Central Europe, which do not encourage sales; and the presence in the international market of our Mediterranean competitors which are much cheaper than us. These have caused this drop in international arrivals, mainly from Germany and the United Kingdom.

[Spitfire58]

Hi Stephen,
Those figures don’t seem to match the ones in your previous post (#17) saying approx 412000 visitors. Taking your figures for May from International & Peninsula (Spanish & inter island) of 137000 + 26500 gives approx 164000 & doubling to give in & out still only gives approx 320000. Am I doing something wrong with these figures 🤔🤔🤔

[Captain Sensible]

457,076 passengers passed through the airport in June 2019 which is a 6.5% drop compared to June 2018.

[Captain Sensible]

504,911 passengers(Arrivals & Departures) passed through the airport in July 2019.  That is a 9.5% decrease compared to July last year.

3,247,040 people have passed through the airport between Jan-Jul 2019, which is an 8% decrease compared to the same period last year.

[Captain Sensible]

527,838 passengers(Arrivals & Departures) passed through the airport in August 2019.  That is a 7.5% decrease compared to August last year.
3,774,878 people have passed through the airport between Jan-Aug 2019, which is an 7.9% decrease compared to the same period last year.
As,in previous months,the decrease in passengers is linked to the decrease in flights.  In August there were 4,253 oprations which is a drop of 8% compared to last year.

[Captain Sensible]

462,926 passengers (Arrivals & Departures) passed through the airport in September 2019. That is a 9.1% decrease compared to September last year.
4,237,804 people have passed through the airport between Jan-Sept 2019, which is an 8.1% decrease compared to the same period last year.
The number of flights this September was 6.3% down on last year, and 8.5% down on the year so far to date.
October's figures for Fuerteventura and the Canaries will be interesting following the collapse of Thomas Cook
https://www.diariodefuerteventura.com/no...eYKTZV0a5w

[windermeregolfer]

Even before the collapse of TC we have been surprised the reduction of planes coming in over our villa to land, and it is even quieter now with no TC flights, we will have to see who is going to pick up TC's slots.  Last Friday I was on the phone back to the UK and it was 40 minutes before I had to pause the conversation whilst a plane went over.

Caleta appears much quieter, again last Friday we were picked up went down town for Tapas lunch and there were plenty of parking spaces available.

[Rasputin]

I must have been in a different Caleta last week as parking while not impossible it was difficult enough to get a space. A lot of cars were parked at the on the rough ground at white building beside the first roundabout coming from the airport side.

[Captain Sensible]

Parking in central Caleta is really difficult.

I usually walk into the centre, or park my car at the bus station.

The rough ground that Rasputin mentions used to be a Football pitch.  It was demolished to create a 'green' zone to create a better impression of Caleta as you drove in!  Now it's full of cars.  One looks as if it's abandoned and some companies leave lorries there (probably as advertising).

[Can the Man]

Yes and somebody had a campervan parked up there this week advertising it for sale.