Lanzarote airport received 722,288 passengers in August, 5.2% more than in 2019, confirming the recovery of tourism compared to pre-pandemic figures. Canary airports have closed the month of August 2022 with 3,999,908 passengers, which represents an increase of 1.3% in traffic compared to the same month in 2019. Of the total number of commercial passengers (3,977,444), 1,837. 168 correspond to national traffic, 0.7% more, and 2,140,276 to international traffic, 2.1% more than in the same month of 2019. In the first eight months of the year, the number of passengers registered at Canarian airports amounts to 27,786,117, with a recovery of 92.6% compared to the same period in 2019, prior to the pandemic. Of the total commercial passengers (27,526,800), 11,570,450 correspond to domestic flights, which represents a recovery of 95.7% compared to the accumulated total for the month of August 2019, and 15,956,350 to international flights, a 90.3% recovery compared to the same period in 2019. The number of movements registered between January and August 2022 was 262,570, with a recovery of 95.8% compared to the same period in 2019, and the merchandise traffic recorded so far is 20,745 tons, which represents a recovery 85.8% of the figures for 2019.
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