US EditionSánchez Announces Historic €13bn Aena Investment
The €13 billion plan will enhance capacity and security across Spain's airports, supporting forecasted passenger growth to 320 million and advancing sustainability and technology goals.
- On September 18, 2025, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez unveiled a €12.9 billion Spanish government plan to expand airports during 2027-2031, describing it as a defining investment.
- With passenger forecasts at around 320 million this year, the proposals must fit within DORA III's five-year framework and balance airlines, passengers and the economy in coming years.
- Barcelona-El Prat will be allocated 3.2 billion euros, including a runway extension, while Madrid-Barajas is set to receive 2.4 billion euros to expand capacity.
- Officials say the investment will help Spain retain global hub status and support economic growth, while Ryanair has withdrawn from several regional airports and is cutting over one million seats, prompting Aena to accuse Ryanair of using blackmail.
- Work is expected to begin towards 2030, with the investment almost four times larger than the previous regulatory cycle and funded mainly by landing fees, balancing costs over the coming years.
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Sánchez announces historic €13bn Aena investment
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has unveiled plans for what the government is calling the largest investment in Spain’s airports in recent decades. The programme, to be carried out by the partly state-owned operator Aena, will see close to €13 billion invested between 2027 and 2031 across the national network. Announcing the initiative during a visit to Alicante-Elche airport… Source
In the midst of a debate on the saturation of tourism, Aena is launching an investment process, which will begin in the period 2027-2030 and will extend to the next five years, with the aim of dimensioning the Spanish airports that face the maximum of their theoretical technical capacity to respond to the growth of tourism in the next two decades. Not in vain, the International Airport Council (ICA) projects that the five countries with the most…
The investment of 12,888 million euros announced this Thursday by the airport manager Aena for the quinquennium 2027-2031 will allow the Spanish airports to continue to raise their traffic figures for at least the next two decades. The investment previewed for the next five years will provide sufficient capacity to the Spanish infrastructures for [...] The Aena entrance previews 20 more years of increase in the airports with the investment of al…
Spain presents €13 billion airport investment plan
The Spanish government has unveiled an investment plan that will allocate €12.9 billion to the expansion of the country’s airport capacity during the period 2027-2031. The bulk of this investment, nearly €10 billion, will go to projects directly linked to regulated aeronautical operations, with the remainder going to commercial activities. Another €1.5 billion included within this investment package has been earmarked for technology and sustain…
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