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Spain has already recovered 87% of pre-pandemic international reservations
With countries across the globe seemingly emerging from the tail-end of the sixth wave and international travel opening up once more, Spain is again topping many lists as a safe destination as has ranked as the fourth most in-demand country for tourists in the world this Easter.
This glowing validation has been celebrated by the Secretary of State for Tourism, Fernando Valdez, who this week highlighted the fact that “to date,” Spain has already recovered 87% of its pre-pandemic international flight reservations and demand in recent months has grown exponentially.
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From the data it would appear that the impact of the war in Ukraine and the rise in prices in everything from fuel to groceries has done little to put off tourists in the short-term, and the figures achieved so far this year by Spanish airports appear to support this assumption.
Even before Easter traffic hit, Aena closed the month of March, which was marred by cold weather and torrential rain, with a total of 15.5 million passengers: that’s a recovery of 78.1% compared to the same month in 2019 and an incredible jump of 387.1% from last year.
The Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas reported the biggest recovery by far in March, totalling 3,557,755 passengers, followed by Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat, with 2,701,372, Málaga-Costa del Sol, with 1,178,907 and Palma de Mallorca, which saw 1,098,167 passengers pass through his doors.
During the first three months of the year, some 37,898,456 passengers have travelled through the airports of the Aena network.
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