Enaire handled nearly 2.2 million flights between January and October 2026, which represents a 4.3% increase compared with the same period of the record year 2025, according to a statement.
Within this volume, international flights, which reached 1.3 million, rose by 5% year-on-year, while the more than 500,000 overflights and the 404,695 domestic flights increased by 4.1% and 2.1% respectively in the first ten months of the year.
This trend meant that the cumulative increase in air traffic in Spain exceeded the European average by 3.3 percentage points versus 2025 (+1.6%) and by 17.2 percentage points versus 2019 (+18.6% in the case of Enaire and +1.4% across Europe).
By control centers, so far this fiscal year Seville processed 507,842 flights (5.6% more than in the same period of 2025); Madrid, 1,181,826 (+4.5%); Barcelona, 1,069,256 (+4.4%); Palma, 365,433 (+4.3%) and Canarias, 361,874 (+1.8%).
Only in October, Enaire handled a total of 233,844 flights, representing an increase of 3.4% compared with the same month of the previous year.
That month, international flights rebounded by 4.2%, to 139,201, while domestic flights (41,409) fell by 0.3% and the 53,234 overflights rose by 4.4%.
The upturn in air traffic in Spain in October versus 2025 was three percentage points higher than the average European change (+0.4%). Compared with 2019, the gap in Spain’s favor was 18.7 percentage points (Enaire, +21.7%; and Europe, +3%).
By control centers, in September Madrid handled 127,320 flights (+4.7%); Seville, 53,395 (+3.4%); Canarias, 37,102 (+2.7%); Barcelona, 113,046 (+2.4%) and Palma, 38,890 (+1.7%).