The new incentives – which apply to airports and heliports with fewer than three million passengers – consist of a 100% discount on airport security and PRM (passenger with reduced mobility) charges for additional passengers compared with the equivalent season in 2023. The growth must take place on routes that do not overlap with those operated by other airlines.
The airports eligible for this incentive are: A Coruña, Seve Ballesteros-Santander, Federico García Lorca Granada-Jaén, Vigo, Jerez, Aeropuerto Internacional Región de Murcia, Almería, Pamplona, Valladolid, León, Logroño-Agoncillo, Córdoba, Burgos, Albacete, Madrid-Cuatro Vientos, Huesca-Pirineos, and Algeciras Heliport.
The incentive will be applied during the summer and winter seasons of 2025 and 2026. It involves a discount of around 70% of the total cost of operating at these airports for additional flights.
Current incentives
This incentive is in addition to the one that Aena has approved this year for the period 2024-2026 for regional airports, which consists of a 100% discount on the passenger charge for all additional passengers with respect to those existing for each company in the equivalent season of 2023. Specifically, this incentive already applies to the 32 airports and heliports that had fewer than three million passengers in 2023: Asturias, Girona-Costa Brava, La Palma, A Coruña, Seve Ballesteros-Santander, Vigo, Reus, Federico García Lorca Granada-Jaén, Jerez, AI Región de Murcia, Almería, Zaragoza, Melilla, San Sebastián, Vitoria, El Hierro, Valladolid, Pamplona, La Gomera, Ceuta, Badajoz, León, Algeciras, Salamanca, Logroño-Agoncillo, Son Bonet, Sabadell, Córdoba, Burgos, Albacete, Madrid-Cuatro Vientos and Huesca-Pirineos.
Airlines will be exempted from paying the passenger charge for all additional passengers beyond the figures for 2023 for three consecutive years.
In addition, the incentives for opening routes to new destinations at airports with more than 3 million passengers are maintained until March 2027, and growth is boosted with regard to the previous equivalent season on routes to Asia.
Annual incentives for the two heliports, Algeciras and Ceuta, have also been maintained.
La Palma Airport
In addition, Aena's board of directors has decided to extend the incentive for airlines operating at the Canary Islands’ La Palma Airport until 2025, to promote tourism and consolidate the recovery of air traffic, and to boost the scheduling of routes and operations by the airlines. This incentive has already been applied in 2022, 2023, and 2024. According to Aena, this is its contribution to the recovery of activity on the island, which was severely affected by the 2021 eruption of the volcano in the Cumbre Vieja natural park.
The incentive involves reimbursing the infrastructure use charge or passenger charge on departing flights between January 1, 2025 and December 31, 2025 from La Palma Airport to mainland Spain, the Balearic Islands or an international destination. It affects the charge that airlines pass on to passengers for the use of the infrastructure, which contributes to promoting activity at La Palma Airport. This initiative is in collaboration with the Special Commissioner for the Reconstruction of the Island of La Palma.
