What’s On The Horizon For: Aena

Juan Alberto Martín, head of the airline customer relationships department at Aena, told Routes its emphasis gets on bring in specialized and custom-made airline company operations having actually launched a new reward program for its smaller airport terminals with under three million yearly guests. Martín also claimed: “The arrival of Airbus A321 will be a gamechanger for Spain and will permit further link from North Atlantic and Center East.”

Speaking on Aena’s participation at Routes Europe 2024 Gracia stated: “Paths events are excellent; they allow us to meet all the airlines in a couple of days that we would not have the ability to fulfill usually.” Martín also spoke of the power of participating in with Aena’s tourism companions: “To show the location and Aena with each other is really essential to airline companies since they can see just how carefully we work together, coordinate and can offer a larger proposition to them.”

Aena has also seen growth throughout the Americas with United Airlines’ summer season program enhancing its flights from Spain by 30% in 2024 including the resumption of Costa del Sol and New York-Newark Flight terminal, links in between Barcelona, Chicago and Washington, Palma de Mallorca to New York and a brand-new solution between Barcelona and San Francisco.

With an overall network of 46 airport terminals, Aena invited more than 283 million travelers in 2023, an increase of 16.2% compared to 2022 and over pre-pandemic levels. With a lot of its flight terminals located across Spain, Aena recorded an all-time high number of passengers (28.2 million), aircraft activities (238,062) and freight (108,380 lots) in Might 2024.

Pertaining to European course advancement, airlines remain to see the capacity in Aena airport terminals with easyJet opening its fourth Spanish base at Alicante Flight terminal (ALC) in April 2024 and airBaltic releasing a brand-new seasonal base in Grandma Canaria during December 2023.

Talking to Routes in Aarhus, Irene Gracia, head of the aeronautics market and international connections division at Aena, stated its aim to establish website traffic throughout Asia. Having already experienced development in this market, as evidenced by brand-new routes such as Shenzhen Airlines’ nonstop service from Shenzhen to Barcelona in 2023, Aena also attended Routes Asia 2024 to meet with additional Chinese providers.