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Monthly Archives: May 2013

Castellón airport runway OK, a safety plan is left Standard

Aena, responsible for the test flight, has issued a positive report. Before that, the air space had been approved by the Ministries of Public works and Defense. Some test flights were operated with a Beechcraft B-300 on 18 Feb.According to local media, an airfield has been already assigned and the routes for approach are already fixed.Begining this week Aena certified that the 2,700 meter Castellón airport runway can accept commercial flights. However, for its final approval, customs must be certified by the Home Office. Moreover, an updated safety plan must be issued.Castellón Airport was inaugurated on 25 March 2011. More than…

Madrid airport at the bottom of the European list Standard

According the the Airports Council International and their European list on traffic in the airports, Madrid Barajas is the one which suffered the highest passenger loss during the first three months in 2013. The tax increase caused some route closures and made some airlines like easyJet decrease traffic.The economic situation and the Iberia strike have also contributed in this passenger loss.Hence, the number of passengers has decreased in Madrid by 13.9% to reach 3.2 million in March. When it comes to Barcelona, it has fallen by 2.5% to 2.5 million passengers.Some airports improvePalma de Mallorca has gained passengers by 2.5%, Tenerife Sur by 2.8% and Málaga by 0.8%. Lanzarote(2.4%), Alicante (1.9%) and Girona (4.1%) also…

Aena to moderate the increases as from 2014 Standard

Aena to moderate the increases: Following with our post about a possible moderation in the increase of charges that Aena might be considering, laprovincia.es informed on Wednesday in the same direction.According to this piece of news, the drop in traffic might have forced Aena to moderate the increases.In spite of the fact that the law allows Aena to increase their charges with 5 points over the CPI, Aena would be willing to soften the financial crisis impact on the industry. Hence, they would have specified that these increases might be moderated as from 2014.The option they are working with at this moment is to…