In November 2023

Passenger Traffic at the airports of the Autonomous Region of Madeira (ARM) increased by 8.9% year-on-year

The Regional Directorate of Statistics of Madeira (DREM) releases today, based on information from ANA – Airports of Portugal, the first data regarding air transport in the ARM for the month of November 2023. In the referenced month, the ARM airports recorded a movement of 341.9 thousand passengers, transported on 2,513 aircraft (commercial flights), reflecting year-on-year changes of 8.9% and 1.9%, respectively. When compared to November 2019 (pre-pandemic period), there was also growth, with a +44.7% increase in passenger movement and +31.2% in aircraft movement.

In the first 11 months of 2023, changes in aircraft and passenger movements were 11.8% and 19.0%, respectively. Each aircraft (considering both landings and take-offs) transported, on average, about 141 passengers (132 in November 2022) at Madeira Airport, while at Porto Santo Airport, this figure exceeded 63 passengers (58 in the same month of the previous year).

In November 2023, domestic and international passenger traffic at the ARM airports showed a positive year-on-year change in international traffic (+9.8%) and, similarly positive but of lesser magnitude, in the domestic segment (+7.9%). Compared to the same period before the pandemic (2019), there was also growth in both segments: +47.0% in domestic traffic and +42.8% in international.

At Madeira Airport, international traffic (54.7%) predominated over domestic (45.3% of the total). At Porto Santo Airport, there is a predominance of domestic traffic (72.9% of the total), but with less disproportion compared to October.

In this reference month, regular flights at the ARM airports accounted for 91.6% of the total aircraft movements and 94.5% of passengers (93.0% and 94.3% in the same period last year, respectively).

In November 2023, the occupancy of aircraft movements at the ARM airports was around 81.1%, with Madeira Airport reaching 81.6% and Porto Santo at 69.0%. In the same period of the previous year, the occupancy rate was lower, at 75.8%, 76.7%, and 56.9%, in that order.

From January to November 2023, passengers embarked and disembarked at the ARM airports totalled 4,465.2 thousand, with half corresponding to traffic exclusively between airports located within the national territory, including interior and domestic connections (47.7% of the total together), and the other half to international traffic (52.3%). In the context of the latter, the United Kingdom was the main country of origin and destination for international flights from the ARM airports (32.8%), followed by Germany (20.3%) and France (8.6%).

In the IATA Summer (International Air Transport Association) from March 26 to October 28, 2023, Madeira Airport operated commercial flights from 27 airlines (28 in the IATA Summer 2022), with 64 routes (60 in the same period last year) to 57 destinations (54 in the IATA Summer 2022). At Porto Santo Airport, commercial flights were operated on 7 routes (8 in the IATA Summer 2022), by 8 airlines (9 in the same period last year) to 7 destinations (8 in the IATA Summer 2022).

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