“In June 2024, 251,267 passengers disembarked at Azores airports, registering a positive variation of 11.3% compared to the same month of the previous year”, reads the report on the movement of air passengers for the month of June, published on the SREA website.

During the first six months of the year, the Azores registered 994,115 arrivals at airports, 77,478 (8.5%) more than in the same period in 2023.

In the month of June, of the nine islands of the Azores, seven recorded year-on-year increases in the number of passengers disembarked by air.

The island of Flores was the one with the biggest increase (18.7%), followed by São Miguel (17.6%), Pico (11.8%), Graciosa (6.8%), Santa Maria (4.4%), São Jorge (3.4%) and Faial (+2.7%).

Conversely, Corvo and Terceira reduced the number of disembarked passengers, by 9.3 and 0.5%, respectively.

The island of São Miguel, the largest in the archipelago, concentrated more than half of the passengers disembarked in June (148,730), followed by Terceira (50,023), Faial (16,154), and Pico (13,565).

It was among passengers traveling between islands that the highest number of arrivals was recorded in June (103,280), followed by flights from the mainland and Madeira (98,724) and international flights (49,263).

Travellers from abroad recorded, however, the biggest year-on-year increase (40%), significantly higher than that seen among passengers on interisland flights (4.5%) and among those from the rest of the country (7.7%).

As for the number of passengers embarked this month, it reached 243,263, which represented a year-on-year increase of 12.3%.

Also in this case, passengers who boarded international flights (41,320) registered the biggest increase (41.8%), followed by those who boarded territorial flights (10.3%), which reached 98,358, and those who boarded inter-island flights (5.3%), which amounted to 103,585.