In total, there were approximately 178,000 disembarkations, 12.3% less than in the same period last year, according to data released by the Regional Statistics Service (SREA).

“In April 2026, 178,568 passengers disembarked at Azores airports, showing a negative variation of 12.3% compared to the same month of the previous year,” reads the SREA report on air passenger traffic.

This is the fourth consecutive month in which the number of passengers disembarking by air in the Azores has registered an annual decrease, following decreases recorded between September and November.

Domestic flights

The majority of passengers disembarking in April in the Azores came from territorial flights (Madeira and mainland), totalling 78,571, equivalent to 44% of the total.

From inter-island flights, 76,508 passengers disembarked (42.8%), and from international flights, 23,489 passengers disembarked (13.2%).

In inter-island flights, the year-on-year decrease was only 2.6%, but in territorial flights it reached 18% and in international flights 19.8%.

Only two of the nine islands in the archipelago bucked the trend, showing an increase in disembarked passengers compared to April 2025: Santa Maria (3.4%) and Faial (2.8%).

Corvo had the largest drop (-15.7%), followed by São Miguel (-15.5%), Terceira (-13.9%), São Jorge (-5.4%), Graciosa (-4.5%), and Pico (-1.3%).

On the island of Flores, the number of disembarked passengers remained practically unchanged compared to the same month last year.

The island of São Miguel, the largest in the archipelago, accounted for 59.6% of the total number of passengers disembarking in the region this month, with 106,359 passengers, followed by the islands of Terceira, with 34,711 passengers (19.4%), Faial, with 11,688 (6.5%) and Pico, with 9,473 (5.3%).

The number of passengers embarking at Azores airports reached 174,041 in April, 12% less than in the same month in 2025.

In this case, too, the drop was less pronounced in embarkations on inter-island flights (2.4%), which totalled 76,913.

On territorial flights, 75,637 passengers embarked, 18.5% less than in the same period last year, and on inter-island flights, 21,491 passengers, 17.8% less.