The total number of passengers transported by Spanish airports throughout 2018 was 263.7 million, 5.8% more than in 2017, according to the provisional accumulated data published by Aena.
The airport with the most passengers was, once again, Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas, which handled a total of 57.89 million travelers. This figure represents an 8.4% increase compared to the previous year's data.
The Barcelona-El Prat airport ranked second with 50.17 million passengers, 6.1% more than in 2017. The third Spanish airport by number of travelers transported throughout 2018 was Palma de Mallorca, which grew by 4% and reached 29.08 million passengers.
The top ten positions in the ranking are completed by the airports of Málaga-Costa del Sol (19.02 million), Alicante-Elche (13.98 million), Gran Canaria (13.57 million), Tenerife-Sur (11.04 million), Ibiza (8.1 million), Valencia (7.76 million) and Lanzarote (7.32 million).
Of the top 20 in the ranking, those that grew the most compared to the previous year were the airports of Seville (11th in the ranking with an increase of 24.9%), Tenerife-Norte (16.7%) and Valencia (15.2%).
In contrast, three airports among the top 20 experienced a drop in the number of passengers transported: Tenerife-Sur (-1.8%), Lanzarote (-0.8%) and Asturias (-0.5%).