Fuerteventura Airport handles 578,704 passengers in October, down 1.6% year on year

Fuerteventura Airport handled a total of 578,704 passengers in October 2026, down 1.6% on the same month a year earlier, according to figures published by Aena on Thursday, 12 November.

The trend at Fuerteventura Airport contrasted with that across the archipelago, where airports handled 4,663,759 passengers in October, 1% more than in the same period of 2025.

Fuerteventura remains the Canary Islands’ fifth-busiest airport by passenger numbers, behind Gran Canaria, Tenerife South, Lanzarote and Tenerife North.

Fuerteventura and Tenerife South the only Canary Islands airports to record fewer passengers in October

Aena’s figures show differing trends in air traffic across the islands. Six airports recorded year-on-year increases, while Fuerteventura and Tenerife South were the only ones to see declines.

Gran Canaria Airport led the archipelago, with 1,359,470 passengers, an increase of 2.6%.

It was followed by Tenerife South, which handled 1,142,246 passengers, down 1.9% on October 2025.

César Manrique-Lanzarote Airport recorded 774,427 passengers, up 1.7%, while Tenerife North-Ciudad de La Laguna handled 634,145, an increase of 2.2%.

Fuerteventura Airport, meanwhile, recorded 578,704 passengers, down 1.6%.

The largest percentage increases were at El Hierro, up 9.2% to 28,969 passengers; La Palma, up 8.9% to 133,905; and La Gomera, which handled 11,893 passengers, an increase of 8.2%.

Canary Islands airports handle more than 4.6 million passengers in October

Across the Canary Islands, Aena recorded 4,663,759 passengers in October, including 4,651,947 on commercial flights.

Of the latter, 1,928,496 passengers travelled on domestic flights, a 1.1% increase on the same month a year earlier.

International flights carried 2,723,451 passengers, up 1.2% on October 2025.

During the month, 41,838 aircraft movements were handled and 2,685 tonnes of freight were transported.

More than 45 million passengers in the Canary Islands by the end of October

In the first ten months of 2026, Canary Islands airports recorded 45,182,192 passengers, a slight decrease of 0.2% on the same period a year earlier.

Of the 45,018,483 commercial passengers recorded between January and October, 18,964,008 travelled on domestic flights, up 0.6%, while 26,054,475 used international connections, down 0.3%.

Over this period, Canary Islands airports handled 405,499 aircraft movements and transported 25,584 tonnes of freight.

Domestic air traffic grows by 3.5%

Air traffic growth in the Canary Islands in October was below that recorded across Aena’s Spanish network as a whole.

Spanish airports handled 30,523,291 passengers during the month, 3.5% more than in October 2025.

Between January and October, the national network recorded 287,738,159 passengers, an overall increase of 4%.

The figures therefore show different trends in Spain as a whole, where air traffic continues to grow, and the Canary Islands, where cumulative passenger numbers remained broadly stable, despite significant differences between airports in the archipelago.