From typicallyspanish.com

Costa del Sol
No frills make up half of Málaga airport arrivals
By h.b.
May 1, 2006 - 8:43 AM

Easyjet, Monarch and Air Berlin now bring half the arrivals to Málaga airport. Thanks to the no-frills airlines some 800,000 extra seats to Málaga are on offer this summer.

It means an expected 7.5% growth in passenger numbers this year to take the total over the 3 million passengers on no-frills airlines alone. Now only 20% of arrivals in Málaga are on charter flights.

Meanwhile Easy Jet has apparently chosen Barajas airport in Madrid ahead of Málaga for the new southern European base.

(Tourism story)