Busy airport breaks record

FOR the first time ever, Malaga-Costa del Sol airport has registered more than 4,000,000 passengers during the first four months of this year even though they are usually the quietest ones.

Altogether the airport dealt with 4,069,493 passengers from January 1 to April 30, which is 15.3 per cent more than the same months in 2015, AENA airport management has reported.

The best month was April, with 1,445,964 people travelling to or from the airport on 10,535 flights.

Of the total, 1,250,980 people were travelling to or from another country with the UK remaining the country producing the most passengers (464,290, 8.6 per cent more than in April 2015), followed by Germany (146,860) and France (103,495).