Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Canary Islands Airports Handled More Than Three Million Passengers in August
The eight Canary Islands airports received 3,270,838 passengers during August - 83,616 more than in the same month of 2005. The statistics reveal that all of the islands' airports, except La Palma and Tenerife South, showed increases.
Of the total passengers, 1,636,077 were travelling on national flights within Spain (which includes to and from other Canary Islands) and 1,569,640 were international passengers. A total of 33,635 flights operated to and from the eight Canary Islands airports in August this year, 1,372 more than in August 2005.
Tenerife North Los Rodeos airport had the greatest increase, both in the number of flights as in the number of passengers handled. Nevertheless, Gran Canaria still handled the largest number of operations, followed by Tenerife South.
Más de 3 millones de pasajeros en los aeropuertos de las Islas en agosto








