“In April 2024, 182,997 passengers disembarked at Azores airports, registering a positive variation of 3.5% compared to the same month of the previous year”, reads the report.

In the first four months of the year, the Azores registered 542,791 arrivals at airports, 26,261 more (5.08%) than in the same period in 2023.

In April, of the nine islands in the Azores, only five recorded year-on-year increases in the number of passengers disembarked by air.

The biggest growth occurred on the island of Pico (22.7%), followed by Santa Maria (13%), São Miguel (6.2%), São Jorge (1.5%) and Terceira (0.2%).

On the remaining islands there was a drop in passengers compared to the same period last year, particularly Corvo (21.6% less) and Faial (18.3% less).

Graciosa (minus 5.6%) and Flores (minus 2.9%) also recorded declines.

The island of São Miguel, the largest in the archipelago, concentrated more than half of the disembarked passengers (112,349), followed by Terceira (36,295), Faial (10,114) and Pico (8,670).

The largest number of passengers disembarked in April (89,857) came from other regions of the national territory (mainland and Madeira), a typology that registered a year-on-year growth of 4.1%.

International visitors

Passengers on international flights continue, however, to see the biggest year-on-year increases, with growth of 24.3% to 22,878 disembarks.

Passenger arrivals on inter-island flights, which totaled 70,262, fell 2.5% compared to April 2023.

As for the number of passengers boarded, it reached 175,003, which represented a year-on-year increase of 0.6%.

Also in this case, passengers boarded on inter-island flights (72,151) fell by 2.4%, with a 1.1% drop on territorial flights (84,204).

Conversely, boardings on flights abroad (16,673) rose 24.3%.