UK tourists help Costa Blanca airport soar to new May record

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June 12, 2025

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PASSENGER records were broken for a fifth successive month at Alicante-Elche airport in May with 1.85 million travellers.

That record May figure is 5.8% up on a year earlier- itself an all-time high.

Around a third of passengers came from the United Kingdom.

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Cumulatively, over 7.2 million people have used the airport during the first five months of 2025, an increase of 10.9% compared to the same period last year.

The bulk of May’s travellers were international passengers accounting for over 1.6 million people- an annual rise of 7.5%.

Domestic passengers totalled over 224,000 which was actually 5% less than a year ago.

Alicante-Elche ran 11,697 flights last month, a 6.2% increase on May 2024.

46,681 services were operated between January and May- 11.5% more than last year.

The UK market dominated in May with 637,443 travellers; followed by Germany, with 112,760; the Netherlands, with 111,597; Belgium, with 88,876; and France, with 87,450.

Airport operator Aena said Alicante-Elche was the fifth-busiest of its facilities in Spain last month.

It stood behind Madrid, Barcelona, Palma and Malaga but comfortably ahead of sixth-placed Gran Canaria.

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Have you been impacted by easyJet strike action? If so, the Olive Press wants to hear from you: please email ben@theolivepress.es to get in touch

THOUSANDS of holidaymakers have been left stranded across Spain after more than 60 flights were cancelled on the second day of easyJet cabin crew strike action.

Flights were cancelled in Barcelona, Alicante, Malaga and Palma de Mallorca as cabin crew for the budget airline walked out for the second of three planned days of industrial action.

Over 650 workers belonging to the USO trade union have joined the walkout, which aims to highlight the discrepancy between the salaries paid to Spanish cabin crew members and staff from other European countries.

The strike has impacted EasyJet’s four Spanish bases – Barcelona (143 workers), Alicante (106), Malaga (127) and Palma de Mallorca (281) – and will last until Friday.

easyJet staff are demanding equal pay with their European colleagues.

Barcelona El-Prat airport (pictured) is among the airports in Spain to have been impacted by the strike action. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

According to the USO, the basic salary of Spanish cabin crew at EasyJet is €14,067, significantly lower than the €18,214 staff are paid in Portugal, €19,086 in Italy, or €27,147 in the Netherlands.

Pier Luigi Copello, general secretary of the USO at easyJet, said: “Spanish easyJet cabin crew earn the lowest wages in Europe. While our basic salary is €14,067 per year, our European colleagues earn between 29% more, in the case of Portugal, and in excess of 200% more, in the case of Switzerland.”

The USO’s Malaga president, Miguel Galan, added: “The situation is especially aggravated if we consider that EasyJet’s bases in Spain are in four of the most expensive cities to rent or buy housing, not to mention the severe crisis in the real estate sector with ever higher prices, and the scarce supply of rentals.”

Holidaymakers impacted by the strikes may be entitled to compensation.

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