ENAIRE handled 5 per cent more flights in August and set a new record of 8,548 movements in a single day

ENAIRE, the state air navigation service provider in Spain, handled more than 255,000 flights in August (255,084), 5 per cent more than in the same month of 2025, itself a record year. Throughout August, the 2025 daily flight record (8,103 movements) was surpassed on as many as 26 occasions, with 1 August the busiest day for air traffic in Spain’s history (8,548). 

International flights (154,487) increased by 5.7 per cent in August compared to the same month last year; domestic flights (44,074), by 4.2 per cent; and overflights (56,523), which do not land at or depart from a Spanish airport, by 3.6 per cent.

By control centre, Palma handled 55,153 flights in August (6.3 per cent more than in the same month of 2025); Madrid, 129,223 ( 5.8 per cent); Barcelona, 133,222 ( 5.1 per cent); Seville, 56,104 ( 5.0 per cent); and the Canary Islands, 37,104 ( 3.5 per cent).