Zaragoza Airport exceeds 181,409 tons of merchandise in 2024, 39.7% more

Zaragoza Airport closed 2024 with nearly 181,409 tonnes transported , representing a 39.7 % increase over 2023 and making it the third airport in the Aena network that handles the most cargo, behind only Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport and Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat. The number of passengers and operations also increased in 2024. Specifically, Zaragoza Airport recorded 694,355 passengers (+1.3%) and 10,378 landing and take-off movements throughout the year , 6.8% more than in 2023.

Of the 689,639 commercial passengers, 432,224 were international, an increase of 3% compared to 2023. In terms of movements, Zaragoza Airport handled 10,378 flights in 2024 , of which 8,571 were commercial, 9.1% more than in 2023; of these, 6,202 were international movements, exceeding the figures for the previous year by 11.4%.

In December, Zaragoza Airport welcomed 54,624 passengers , a monthly record, with a 9.1% increase over the same month in 2023. In the last month of the year, movements also increased by 11.8% , with a total of 813 operations, and freight traffic, which increased by 16.5% compared to the same month in 2023, reaching 13,154 tonnes.

AENA IS ANALYZING THE NECESSARY INVESTMENTS IN ITS AIRPORTS

The airports of the Aena Group (comprising 46 airports and two heliports in Spain, London-Luton Airport and 17 airports in Brazil) closed 2024 with 369,444,029 passengers, 8.5% more than in 2023 ; they handled 3,203,747 aircraft movements , 7.1% more than in 2023; and transported 1,421,640 tonnes of merchandise, 18.1% more than last year.

In December 2024, 26,925,911 passengers passed through Aena Group airports (7.2% more than in 2023); 239,377 aircraft movements were recorded (+5.7%); and 124,571 tonnes of merchandise were transported, 11.5% more than in 2023.

Aena is already analysing and, in some cases, has already implemented the necessary investments that will be included in Aena’s proposal for the Airport Regulation Document DORA 2027-2031, the airport manager’s investment programme, to ensure, as it has done so far, that the infrastructures are correctly sized for future demand. 

The investments will be discussed at the proposal of Aena in the mandatory consultation process with the airlines, a procedure regulated by Law 18 of 2014, in which, among others, the National Commission of Markets and Competition and the General Directorate of Civil Aviation are involved. Once they have been proposed to users, the airlines, and after their exchange with the Airport Coordination Committees of the different territories, in which representatives of the regional and local governments and the economic and social sectors of the regions participate, they will be reflected in Aena’s investment plan.