ENAIRE managed 238,579 flights in September 2026, an increase of 4.8% from the same month last year and its busiest September on record. Spain’s state air-navigation manager handled 143,735 international flights, 52,571 overflights and 42,273 domestic services, with traffic growth exceeding the European average by 2.3 percentage points.
International traffic rose 5.8% year on year, while overflights increased 3.7% and domestic flights grew 2.7%. Compared with September 2019, ENAIRE’s traffic was 17.3% higher, against 3.3% growth across Europe.
Madrid control centre handled 124,235 flights during the month, up 5.2%, followed by Barcelona with 120,883, up 4.8%. Sevilla managed 52,563 flights, also 4.8% more, while Palma recorded 46,758, up 5.1%, and Canarias handled 34,363, an increase of 1.5%.
From January through September, ENAIRE managed 1,964,484 flights, 4.4% more than during the same record-setting period of 2025. The total comprised 1,153,272 international flights, up 5.1%, 447,926 overflights, up 4.0%, and 363,286 domestic flights, up 2.4%. Accumulated Spanish traffic growth was 2.6 percentage points above the European average compared with 2025 and 17.1 points higher than Europe’s increase relative to 2019.