Friday, 11 March 2011

Fuerteventura has the major increase of tourists in February

The Canary airports had 2,8 million passengers transported in February, which has supposed an increase of 13,1 per cent with regard to the same month of 2010. Fuerteventura's airport registered again, the major increase of the archipelago in the number of travelers during February.

More than 380.000 persons spent for the airport majorero during February, which supposed a total of 3.317 operations. A few information that they place to the airport as the quarter, behind Great Canary that occupied the third position of the whole Aena's network in the passengers' traffic, with more than 902.000 travelers, Tenerife South with almost 718.000 persons and Lanzarote with more than 413.000.
 In accumulated annual, Fuerteventura returns to be the island with major percentage increase, with more than 28 % of travelers that in the same period of the previous year, with almost 750.000 passengers.

As for the transport of load, they moved during February in Fuerteventura's island, more than 134.000 kilos, overcome for Great Canary with more 2 million kilograms, Tenerife North with 1, 1 millions of kilograms, Tenerife South with almost 370.000 kilograms and Lanzarote with almost 210.000.
 In eight airports of the Canary archipelago there were transported 7,7 million kilograms of goods.

In the national set, the airports of the network of Spanish Airports and Air Navigation (AENA) more than 24,44 million passengers transported in the first two months of the year, which supposes 5,2 per cent more than in the same period of 2010.