Overview

• Aena reported 33.3 million passengers across Spanish airports in August, up 3.8% year over year, and nearly 39 million for the wider group including Luton and Brazil, up about 4%.
• Madrid–Barajas set a monthly high with 6.24 million travelers and its busiest day ever on August 15, while Barcelona logged its strongest summer on record and 5.67 million in August, led by international growth.
• Málaga posted a best‑ever August with 2.86 million passengers (+7.9%) and Valencia marked its top month at 1.18 million, even as both airports face capacity pressures flagged in Aena’s planning horizon.
• Galicia had the weakest summer since the pandemic: Santiago fell 10% in August and is down 12.8% year to date (−323,000 passengers), Vigo slipped 4.4% in August, and A Coruña edged higher.
• Ryanair cut about 800,000 summer seats at smaller airports yet carried 20.82 million passengers in Spain from June to August and is threatening further cuts linked to a proposed 6.5% tariff rise; for winter, Santander keeps 16 destinations but with fewer flights as Vueling restores Alicante, Wizzair returns Bucharest, and Binter adds frequency to Gran Canaria.