In September 2024

Passengers’ traffic at the airports of the Autonomous Region of Madeira increased by 3.2% year-on-year

According to information provided by ANA - Airports of Portugal to the Regional Directorate of Statistics of Madeira (DREM), in September 2024, the airports of the Autonomous Region of Madeira (ARM) recorded a movement of 458.4 thousand passengers, transported on 3,042 commercial flights, representing year-on-year changes of +3.2% and -0.8%, respectively.

In the first nine months of 2024, the year-on-year changes in aircraft and passenger movements were +0.2% and +3.9%, respectively.

Each aircraft (considering both landings and take-offs) transported, on average, approximately 155 passengers (150 in September 2023) at Madeira Airport, while at Porto Santo Airport, this figure achieved 107 passengers (100 in the same month of the previous year).

In September 2024, passenger traffic at airports in the Autonomous Region of Madeira grew by 5.3% in international traffic and by 0.9% in the domestic segment.

At Madeira Airport, international traffic (55.5%) predominated over domestic (44.5% of the total). At Porto Santo Airport, there was a preponderance of domestic traffic (86.1% of the total), although with more disparity compared to August 2024.

In this reference month, regular flights at the ARM airports accounted for 93.2% of the total aircraft movements and 95.0% of passengers (90.4% and 92.1% in the same period last year, respectively).

In September 2024, the occupancy of aircraft movements at the ARM airports was around 88.5%, with Madeira Airport reaching 89.1% and Porto Santo at 80.8%. In the same period last year, the occupancy rate was lower both at the two regional airports combined (86.8%) and at Madeira Airport (87.8%) and Porto Santo Airport (75.8%).

From January to September 2024, passengers embarked and disembarked at the ARM airports totalled 3,837.4 thousand, with half corresponding to traffic exclusively between airports located within the national territory, including internal and domestic connections (47.2% of the total together), and the other half to international traffic (52.8%). In the context of the latter, the United Kingdom was the main country of origin and destination for international flights from the ARM airports (28.7%), followed by Germany (20.0%) and France (9.3%).

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