Last June a total of 696,239 passed through the airport on a total of 7,252 flights (12 per cent up from last year). The most frequent passengers through the airport were the British with 239,824 travellers, closely followed by the Spanish with a total of 219,271 and finally German travellers who came in third with just over 90,000 passengers. The most popular airport of origin and destination were Barcelona and Madrid, followed by Gatwick, Manchester and Milan. (Source Aena, Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea).