The records keep tumbling in Ibiza, this time with figures showing that almost 9,000,000 people used Es Codolar Airport in 2023, the highest numbers since records began.
The stats show that 2023 saw an increase in passenger numbers of 9.5% compared with the previous year. To be more specific Ibiza airport handled a total of 8,931,598 passengers on 82,803 flights from 01 January to 31 December, It’s important to note that the figures represent arrival AND departure flights.
Breaking it down to nationalities, Spanish national traffic came out top again with 3,777,283 passengers, an increase of 10.5% while international flights registered 5,137,122 passengers, an increase of 8.9% year on year. Of these international passengers the British market accounted for 1,848,499 passengers more than doubling Italian flights with 905,224 bums on seats. German flights came in at 638,479 and the Dutch 611,408.
A positive stat for winter tourism shows that December saw 235,357 passengers use Ibiza airport on 2658 flights, an increase of 5.6% year on year. Although international travellers accounted for less than 10% with 22,127 passengers this still represented a significant rise of 20.3% from the previous year due to more direct international flights becoming available.
Maurici Lucena, CEO of AENA, the public body that manages Spanish airports gave himself a massive pat on the back commenting “these record figures in air transport are fundamental for the economic and social development of Spain. We should all congratulate ourselves for them. Also the airlines that, like AENA, suffered the harsh consequences of the pandemic, and are now transporting more passengers than ever.”
"MAN IN SAN AN" by Martin Makepeace 