Costa del Sol flying high

In the first 10 months of 2006, more than 11.5 million people landed at or took off from Malaga airport, travelling on 110,448 flights, an increase of 3.7% on the same period to October last year.

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The figures show that foreign visitors outnumbered Spaniards using Malaga airport by three to one: 8.6 million non-nationals compared to 2.8 million nationals; an increase of 2.7% and 5.3%.

And the upward trend looks set to continue. In October 11,529 flights arrived at or departed from Malaga Airport, an increase of 1.1% on October 2005. Passenger numbers in the same month totalled 1.2 million, a rise of a little less than 1%. The majority of flights were to or from the UK, Ireland and Germany.