Spanish airports already operate more than 2,000 daily flights, compared to May 300

Spanish airports are progressively recovering traffic thanks to the opening of borders on June 21 with the end of the alarm state.AENA Figure in more than 2,000 daily operations (takeoffs and landings) of the first days of July, almost seven times more than just 300 of the month of May.Even so, the number of flights operated by the AENA network remains well below the about 7,700 per day of July last year.

The number of passengers, therefore, has increased considerably, although it remains much lower than the summer of 2019, especially because there are many countries with which borders are still closed, such as the United States, China or Russia.Even so, Aena airports attended 1.05 million passengers in June, which multiplies almost by four on May 267,000, according to the data offered yesterday by the manager.Compared to June 2019, the volume of travelers falls 96%, also influenced because until the end of that month the alarm state was not built.

Of the total number of passengers, 317,570 did so on international routes, 98.4% less than a year earlier, while 717,038 traveled on national routes, 91% less.

As a result, in the first half of the year AENA has registered a total of 43.47 million travelers in its airport network, which means 66% less than in the same period last year, when it marked air traffic record.

The manager points out that since the end of the alarm state the airports have been adapted to the new sanitary regulations.AENA performs controls through human and technological means in all airports of the network, which has been a cost of 20 million euros by incorporating more than 1,000 people to reinforce these services, they detailed.

International passengers pass health security filters such as temperature taking, documentary and a visual control.In addition, thermographic cameras have been installed to take the temperature without generating rows among passengers.

"Very Responsible" Companies

And in its commitment to continue fanning the tourism sector, the Minister of the Branch, Reyes Maroto, considers that companies are being "very responsible" in the implementation of security protocols in front of the pandemic, something that is reflected in which no regrowthHe has registered in tourist activity.She so explained it this Monday during the presentation of the campaign to attract international tourism, where Spain is positioned as a "safe" destination against the virus.

This situation contrasts with the beginning of the health crisis, when a German tourist infected in a hotel in Tenerife made all those housed there.Along the same lines, the Foreign Minister, Arancha González Laya, also assured in Brussels that Spain is a "safe" destination despite the rebates detected, since they are part of the "new normality" of all countries, she explained.

Laya made it clear that "everything is controlled" to give confidence to travelers who, given the threat of a second wave of Coronavirus in Spain, could choose another destination."Without vaccine or treatment, we must continue to be prudent," she said, since they will continue giving cases both in Spain and in the other countries, something that is already part of the "new normality," she said.

The minister asked tourists to follow the instructions they receive in their holiday place, since measures such as the mandatory use of masks depends on the regional authorities, who have already implemented it in the middle of Spain.

But uncertainty is high and the German government has warned that there is a "real threat" that a second wave of the virus develops, so he asked its holiday citizens in our country -only in the Balearic Islands represent about 30%of the total tourism-respetting the norms of social distance and the use of masks.All after some controversial images of German tourists in Mallorca have seen last weekend celebrating on the street without taking precautions of any kind.

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