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Date Published: 13/05/2021
ARCHIVED - Granada will invest €175,000 to boost its airport traffic post covid
The funds are part of a plan to increase passengers to Granada-Jaen airport in Andalucia region.
Granada Provincial Council has announced that it is investing €175,000 to promote Granada-Jaen airport in an effort to attract passengers following a large drop in the number of travellers flying in to the airport due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The initiative is part of series of measures to boost tourism levels in Granada, including €45,000 to improve the council’s website dedicated to Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca, €9,000 to publicise the Open Campus Tourism University of Granada and €90,000 to research the types of visitors coming to Granada.
The investment in Granada’s airport is good news for the area after figures showed that in April this year the airport processed only 16,029 passengers, down from 105,141 in April 2019.
During the first four months of 2021 the airport handled just 54,068 passengers, a fall of 87.6 per cent when compared with 2019, when 394,169 passengers passed through the installations.
The pandemic has been brutal, cutting passenger numbers nationally across Spain by -84 per cent this year when compared to the same month in 2019 pre-pandemic.
Air traffic has been at a historic minimum, restrictions making it impossible for travellers to reach Spain and crushing tourism.
This is a huge difference in passenger numbers; the 2021 total for the first four months of the year is 11.9 million passengers nationwide, but during the first four months of 2019, Spanish airports handled 76 million passengers.
The Granada airport also receives significantly lower passenger numbers than nearby Malaga airport, the main airport servicing the Costa del Sol, which by April 2019 had processed 5,247,115 travellers in the first four months of the year, but has handled only 649,813 in the first four months of 2021, a drop of 87.6 per cent.
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