The dense fog which occurred this Friday in Malaga forced twelve flights that were supposed to land in the Malaga-Costa del Sol airport diverted. As Aena informed EFE, seven of them were redirected to Seville, three to Granada and the other two to Alicante and Faro (Portugal).
The detours were concentrated between 8:20 a.m. and shortly after 9 a.m., when improving weather conditions allowed the resumption of planned landings at Malaga airport.
More precisely, at the airport Seville Seven flights were diverted from Madrid, Fez (Morocco), Pisa, Milan and Genoa (Italy), Cologne (Germany) and Nantes (France).
Three more arrivals planned in Malaga from Melilla, Saint-Jacques of Compostela and Lyon (France) were diverted to Granada-Jaén airport. In addition, a flight from Bergamo (Italy) was diverted to Faro (Portugal) and another from Poznań (Poland) to Alicante airport, detailed Aena.
In foggy situations like the one that occurred this Friday near Malaga airport, it is the airlines of the diverted flights that decide whether They transport passengers to their destination by road. They could also choose to arrange another plane trip, according to sources.
The account of air traffic controllers in Spain was informed of the situation on social networks low visibilitywhich led to waits and detours to alternative airports for security reasons.
At Malaga-Costa del Sol Airport, under normal conditions, until 46 planes in just one hourwhile with the fog, with luck, there are a few twelve those who manage to get on track.
Records
Malaga Airport – Costa del Sol continues to break records in 2024, since it closed the first nine months of the year with 19.3 million passengers and 134,161 flights managed. This represents respective increases of 12.3% and 8.4% compared to the same period in 2023.
According to data published by Aena, 19,265,704 users who traveled on commercial flights3,259,814 had their origin or destination in the national territory (+6.3%) and 16,005,890 (+13.7%), abroad.
Regarding specific data for the month of September, the airfield closed with 2,502,377 passengers and 16,891 flights. In relation to passengers, the figure experienced a rebound of 10.4% compared to the same date in 2023. This positive balance was due, according to Aena, to “dynamism» which maintained national and foreign traffic.
Concerning operations, Málaga-Costa del Sol Airport serves September16,891 flightswhich represents an increase of 6.6% compared to September 2023. Among these movements, 16,634 corresponded to commercial connections: 3,345, national (+6%) and 13,289, international (+8.4%).
The majority of registered users have moved in commercial flightssince there were a total of 2,499,599. Among them, 390,844 traveled to or from a Spanish city (5% more than a year earlier), while 2,108,755 opted for connections abroad (+ 11.7%).
Concerning international traffic, the most demanded markets in absolute value are the British (619,396 passengers) and, with a little more distance, the German (214,040), French (147,559), Dutch (139,006) and Italian (129,118).
