The volume of passengers coming from Italy who have been subjected to controls at Spanish airports since Saturday, August 8, exceeds 5,000 people, according to the latest data released by the Ministry of the Interior.
Specifically, by 1:00 PM on this Monday, August 17, the number of travelers who have been required to present documentation upon their arrival in Spain stood at 5,080. During this period, 462 flights have been inspected, and 725 agents have participated in the operation.
Since Sunday, 434 passengers have gone through this control, of which the majority (191) landed on five flights at Adolfo Suárez-Madrid Barajas Airport. At El Prat Airport (Barcelona), the identification of another 118 nationals from third countries arriving on six different flights has been carried out.
A similar situation has occurred at Bilbao airport, where five people traveling on four different flights have been identified; at Sevilla, where controls have been applied to eight passengers from a single plane; and at Málaga, where four identifications corresponding to four different flights have been counted.
At Alicante airport, controls have been carried out on 36 nationals from third countries arriving on ten flights, while at Valencia, 18 passengers have been identified across three different flights.
At the airports in the Balearic Islands, the highest number of identifications has been concentrated in Ibiza, with 12 passengers controlled on three flights. In Mallorca, only six travelers from two flights have been affected, while in Menorca, five flights have been recorded in which ten passengers from third countries were identified.
In the Canary Islands, the breakdown is as follows: 19 passengers controlled on seven flights at Tenerife Sur airport; four identifications at Lanzarote airport corresponding to a single plane; and no people in Fuerteventura, where no flights have been recorded. In Gran Canaria, three passengers from two flights that arrived on the island were identified.
The temporary reestablishment of border controls at airports and ports with direct connections between the Kingdom of Spain and the Italian Republic began to be applied on Saturday, August 8.
The Government will maintain these controls until next September 7, awaiting Italy to lift the suspension of the Schengen area for Spain that it decreed after the migratory crisis that occurred in Ceuta on July 30.