In October 2024

Passenger traffic at the airports of the Autonomous Region of Madeira increased by 3.8% year-on-year

According to information provided by ANA - Airports of Portugal to the Regional Directorate of Statistics of Madeira (DREM), in October 2024, the airports of the Autonomous Region of Madeira (ARM) recorded a movement of 449.2 thousand passengers, transported on 3,046 commercial flights, representing year-on-year changes of +3.8% and +2.6%, respectively.

In the first ten months of 2024, the year-on-year changes in aircraft and passenger movements were +0.4% and +3.9%, respectively.

Each aircraft (considering both landings and take-offs) transported, on average, approximately 153 passengers (151 in October 2023) at Madeira Airport, while at Porto Santo Airport, this figure achieved 85 passengers (89 in the same month of the previous year).

In October 2024, passenger movement at airports in the Autonomous Region of Madeira grew by 8.1% in international traffic but decreased by 1.1% in the domestic segment.

At Madeira Airport, international traffic (56.8%) predominated over domestic (43.2% of the total). At Porto Santo Airport, there was a preponderance of domestic traffic (75.8% of the total), although with less disparity compared to September 2024.

In this reference month, regular flights at the ARM airports accounted for 90.9% of the total aircraft movements and 94.0% of passengers (91.3% and 93.3% in the same period last year, respectively).

In October 2024, the occupancy rate of aircraft movements at the ARM airports was around 87.3%, with Madeira Airport reaching 88.3% and Porto Santo at 73.4%. In the same period of the previous year, the occupancy rate was lower in both regional airports (86,2%), as well as in Madeira Airport (86,9%). In Porto Santo, the occupancy of aircraft movements was lower year-on-year (76,1%).

From January to October 2024, passengers embarked and disembarked at the ARM airports totalled 4,283.9 thousand, with half corresponding to traffic exclusively between airports located within the national territory, including internal and domestic connections (47.0% of the total together), and the other half to international traffic (53.0%). In the context of the latter, the United Kingdom was the main country of origin and destination for international flights from the ARM airports (28.6%), followed by Germany (20.3%) and France (9.3%).

In the IATA Summer (International Air Transport Association) from March 31 to October 26, 2023, Madeira Airport operated commercial flights from 25 airlines (27 in the IATA Summer 2023), with 67 routes (64 in the corresponding period) to 61 destinations (57 in the IATA Summer 2023). At Porto Santo Airport, commercial flights operated on 8 routes (7 in the IATA Summer 2023), by 8 airlines (8 in the corresponding period) to 8 destinations (7 in the IATA Summer 2023).

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