INTERNATIONAL SKIES: Spain

Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. Alongside looking at the market's historical development over the past 30 years, we take the following week's schedule as a snapshot and compare weekly seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

SCHEDULED INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES IN SPAIN (non-stop departures)

Year

Departures

% Change

Available Seats

% Change

1982

41,127

(-0.9) %

6,687,517

(-0.9) %

1983

41,570

1.1 %

6,582,514

(-1.6) %

1984

41,269

(-0.7) %

6,458,272

(-1.9) %

1985

43,305

4.9 %

6,696,886

3.7 %

1986

45,091

4.1 %

6,861,949

2.5 %

1987

47,428

5.2 %

7,206,075

5.0 %

1988

52,336

10.3 %

7,966,250

10.5 %

1989

60,257

15.1 %

8,968,159

12.6 %

1990

64,677

7.3 %

9,638,817

7.5 %

1991

73,736

14.0 %

10,967,443

13.8 %

1992

86,619

17.5 %

12,911,281

17.7 %

1993

92,311

6.6 %

14,061,744

8.9 %

1994

96,130

4.1 %

14,813,292

5.3 %

1995

112,736

17.3 %

18,022,249

21.7 %

1996

121,131

7.4 %

19,116,117

6.1 %

1997

139,595

15.2 %

22,126,345

15.7 %

1998

149,975

7.4 %

23,865,093

7.9 %

1999

181,156

20.8 %

28,767,486

20.5 %

2000

219,970

21.4 %

34,181,356

18.8 %

2001

239,023

8.7 %

36,117,573

5.7 %

2002

236,410

(-1.1) %

35,155,701

(-2.7) %

2003

265,010

12.1 %

39,877,732

13.4 %

2004

294,138

11.0 %

44,934,631

12.7 %

2005

321,946

9.5 %

50,689,905

12.8 %

2006

338,279

5.1 %

54,096,528

6.7 %

2007

404,091

19.5 %

66,267,388

22.5 %

2008

399,552

(-1.1) %

66,209,230

(-0.1) %

2009

369,449

(-7.5) %

62,346,190

(-5.8) %

2010

396,087

7.2 %

67,610,267

8.4 %

2011

417,673

5.4 %

72,396,366

7.1 %

2012

393,713

(-5.7) %

69,001,224

(-4.7) %

Richard Maslen

Richard Maslen has travelled across the globe to report on developments in the aviation sector as airlines and airports have continued to evolve and…