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All Spain, 27/04/2007 16:44:25

Budget passengers see Málaga fly high


Ariplane in the sky of Málaga, Costa del Sol

In March, 192,913 cheap flight passengers arrived at Málaga Airport, an increase of 19.9 percent on the previous year, according to figures just released by the Institute of Tourism Studies (IET).

In the first tree months of the year, 468,727 passengers arrived in Málaga on budget flights, an increase of just over 16 per cent on the first quarter of 2006.

Easyjet uses Málaga Airport as its primary destination in Spain, with the Costa del Sol attracting 22 per cent of its budget travellers. RyanAir and Air Berlin are also important budget airlines for Málaga Airport, which is at present undergoing a huge multimillion-euro development programme.

Despite the huge number of budget passengers using Málaga, in a league table of cheap flight statistics, the figures only place it third in Spain, falling behind Palma de Mallorca with 512,095 passengers in the first three months of this year, followed by Barcelona with 468,727.


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