Barcelona airport receives 6.6% increase in visitors between January and April

Barcelona airport closed the month of April with 4,522,810 visitors flying through its facilities, bringing the year-to-date total to over 15 million.

The April figures sees an increase of 6.6% compared with April 2018, while the 15,033,454 total figure for 2019 so far represents a 6.1% increase compared with the same period in 2018.

The number of international passengers in April increased by 7.7%, while the amount of people getting internal flights went up by 3.9%.

Girona airport saw a drop of 1.5% in the number of passengers for the month of April, and is down 13.9% for the full year to date.

In southern Catalonia, Reus experienced a 24.2% uptick in visitors coming through its doors in April, but still remains down 6.4% counting January-April figures compared with 2018.