Flights with destination and origin Madrid have been canceled today in the Alvedro airport, in A Coruña, due to the situation of the terminals of Barajas for the effects of temporal Filomena. Four departures and three arrivals from Iberia have been canceled. The rest of the connections to other cities have been working normally.
At one o’clock a flight from Air Nostrum, Iberia’s small plane with a hundred seats, from Madrid. It will not be known until mid-afternoon which flights will be operational with Barajas tomorrow, according to sources at the Coruña airport.
Galician airports close 2020 with 70% fewer passengers
The mobility restrictions derived from the measures to try to contain the covid-19 pandemic during 2020 had a significant effect on Galician airports, which have closed the year with a decrease in the number of travelers that is around 70% in the three terminals.
Specifically, according to the data published by AenaThroughout 2020, the Santiago airport received 935,394 passengers, which represents almost 68% of those who made use of these facilities the previous year.
Thus, the year of the pandemic did not allow Rosalía de Castro to reach even one million users, when in 2019 it had exceeded 2.9 million.
In the case of A Coruña airport, the decrease in the number of travelers was 67.7%, to 436,775. The Vigo aerodrome was left, for its part, with just over 303,400 users, 70% less than in 2019.
On the same line, there were 10,949 flights operated in Santiago, 51.1% less, while 11,190 were operated in A Coruña, 34.9% less. At the Vigo airport, the decrease was 51.4%, to 5,597 flights operated.
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