ENAIRE handled 165,550 flights in January, 3.3 per cent more than in the same month in 2025
ENAIRE, Spain’s air navigation manager, handled a total of 165,550 flights in January, 3.3 per cent more than in the same month last year.
In the last month, overflights (those that do not depart from or arrive at a Spanish airport) totalled 42,500, 6.3 per cent more than in the same month last year. International flights (89,521) increased by 3.7 per cent, and domestic flights (33,529) decreased by 1.5 per cent.
In January, air traffic growth in Spain was 0.7 percentage points above the European average for the same month in 2025 (2.6 per cent), and it exceeded it by 17.8 percentage points compared with the same month in 2019 (14.6 per cent for Spain and -3.2 per cent for Europe).
The Madrid Control Centre recorded the highest number of flights in January, nearly 100,000 (99,154), an increase of 4.2 per cent compared to the same month in 2025. The Seville Control Centre recorded 42,371 flights ( 6.7 per cent); the Barcelona Control Centre, 69,280 ( 2.6 per cent); the Canary Islands Control Centre, 37,709 (1.7 per cent); and the Palma Control Centre, 12,425 (-1.8 per cent).
