In August 2024, 307,520 passengers disembarked at Azores airports, showing a positive variation of 7.9% compared to the same month of the previous year, according to the report on air passenger movement for August.
Between January and August, the Azores recorded 1,624,212 air disembarkations, an increase of 127,709 (8.5%) compared to the same period in 2023.
Only the islands of Corvo (-4.2%) and Santa Maria (-0.3%) registered a decrease in passenger disembarkations this month.
The largest increases were observed on the islands of Flores (11.3%), São Miguel (11.1%), and Faial (6.4%).
In Terceira, passenger disembarkations increased by 3.7%, in Pico by 3%, in São Jorge by 2.5%, and in Graciosa by 0.7%.
The island of São Miguel, the largest in the archipelago, concentrated more than half of the passengers disembarking at airports in August (174,206), followed by Terceira (63,671), Faial (21,371), and Pico (17,184).
Of the more than 307,000 passengers disembarking by air in August in the Azores, 143,720 were from inter-island flights, 110,254 from flights from the rest of the national territory (mainland and Madeira), and 53,546 from international flights.
Foreign travelers, however, recorded the highest year-on-year increase (23.4%), significantly higher than that observed among passengers on inter-island flights (4.4%) and those from the rest of the national territory (6.1%).
As for the number of passengers embarking this month, it amounted to 317,288, representing a year-on-year increase of 8.1%.
In this case as well, passengers embarking on international flights (58,905) recorded the highest increase (20.7%), followed by those embarking on territorial flights (6.6%), which amounted to 114,236, and on inter-island flights (4.8%), which reached 144,147.
