Cristina: Yeah, it's already happening. I mean, we have this drone community in Catalonia with an ecosystem that nowadays has roughly 170 entities related directly to, or indirectly to the drone sector. They do fly, there are drone services providers that are offering their services on a regular basis. And just to give you some figures on the Spanish level, according to the Spanish State Aviation Safety Agency, in 2014, there were only 54 drone operators in Spain, while in 2020, there were roughly 66,000 drone operators.
And recently, basically last year, AESA published the figure of the number of operators that we have currently, and it's over 70,000 drone operators, which is a huge development of the sector in the country. Catalonia is the third autonomous region, the third region in Spain with the largest number of registered drone operators.
I have some figures as well on the number of flights. ENAIRE managed, last year, roughly 10,000 flight requests. And it was 70% more requests than in 2021. So it's a huge increase of the number of operations.
There are estimated to be roughly 50,000 flights per year. And in 2021 Catalonia was the autonomous region with the most operations, it’s been estimated to be 2,500, I would say. So yeah, drones are flying and it's a growing sector with a huge potential.
And I only have this data on Spain because it's where we are focused today, but the figures are amazing. If they are that big in Spain, imagine the overall of Europe. So it's just amazing to get to see how this sector has evolved in the last years.
Clara: Yeah, those figures are really impressive.