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IAG suspected of undermining Iberia Standard

Iberia's new log

EuropaPress informed yesterday that Iberia will present its new brand on October 15.EurasiaReview.com have translated this piece of news into EnglishNew aircrafts, totally redesigned cabins in all long-haul aircraft that will put both tourist and business class sections at the top of the market, plus a new website with expanded travel planning options , are other aspects of the programme, along with a major boost in punctuality –Iberia now ranks 7th amongst major airlines– and numerous improvements to passengers’ airport experience at Iberia’s T4 hub at Madrid- Barajas airport.You can find the full piece of news in English here:http://www.eurasiareview.com/01102013-iberia-unvell-new-brand-image-october-15/In other…

Restructuring process in Aena Standard

Restructuring process in Aena: As many of you already know, Aena is currently facing an ongoing process of institutional restructuring. On the one hand, they are working on the privatisation of Aena Aeropuertos as we have been informing in this blog and, on the other hand, they are working for the slot coordination office to become independent from the airport owner which is in fact Aena Aeropuertos. To this respect, you may find interesting what Aena published in their web site (in English). So a Royal Decree is expected with the confirmation of the changes in the slot coordination office. In addition, according to Nexotur.com, the…

British tourism makes Alicante be the first Spanish airport in low cost flights Standard

According to a report by the Institute of Tourism Studies from the Ministry of Industry, 80% of the operations in Alicante are low cost. These airlines will move 3.5 million passengers in the low season. This has helped the airport win back six hundred thousand out of the one million passengers lost in 2012 due to the crisis and the Spanair demise. The big growth of airlines like Norwegian, Jet2.com, Ryanair and the Russian operators have led the airport to the first place in the ranking of low cost airlines Out of 6,595,725 passengers within the first eight months in 2013, 5,280,000 flew…

A new strategic plan for Iberia to alleviate the adverse circumstances Standard

CapitalMadrid.com published yesterday a very interesting analysis on the Madrid airport current situation, where they highlight the decrease of easyJet and Ryanair. Ryanair reduced passengers by 32% and easyJet by 40%, being 14% the overall decrease for the airport between January and August.Iberia—the main operator—and Iberia Express together lost passengers by 19%. Struggling to overcome the current circumstances they keep facing problems with pilots and are working on a new medium-term strategic plan for Iberia.IAG aims to reduce costs at Iberia to make it competitive, above all in the long haul. As for the short and medium haul they will use Iberia Express…

IAG lost 1.6 million passengers. Ryanair 2.3 million Standard

IAG lost 1.6 million passengers

After Aena published the statistics in the Spanish airports, many pieces of news reflect and try to explain the passenger loss between January and August 2013. Trying to do so, we have extracted the figures for such period in 2012 and 2013 and have created a spreadsheet with the passenger difference that each operator served in the Spanish airports.The result is a very comprehensive list which includes all the operators with over 1 million passengers from which we can highlight the following:IAG lost 1.6 million passengers. This means Iberia, Iberia Express, Vueling and British Airways, all together, have an overall decrease…

Murcia cancels the exploitation contract between Corvera and Aeromur Standard

As we had anticipated on Tuesday, El Confidencial informs that last Friday the Government for the Murcia Autonomous Region cancelled the exploitation contract between Corvera and Aeromur, the company owned by Sacyr Vallehermoso.A new tender is now expected so that other companies show their interest in the airport exploitation. The “civil works finished a year and a half ago, although some facilities such as technology, security, etc. are left”. The plan is to have the airport fully operative in the summer of 2014.Aeromur announced judicial proceedings against the Autonomous Region as they understand the contract did not mention a deadline for the airport…

Spanish Airport Traffic evolution – August 2013 Standard

Aena has published the statistics related to the Spanish Airports between January and August 2013. You can find a copy of the spreadsheet here. It shows detail on the traffic evolution at each airport. The file has two tabs at the bottom left corner: one with the figures for the month of August and the other one with overall data between January and August. Each tab shows three tables with detail on passengers, operations and cargo respectively.It is worth noting that Barcelona is in August, for the first time, the airport leading the ranking for passengers in Spain, after all the summer…

Murcia-San Javier to be transferred to Corvera Standard

Murcia-San Javier to be transferred to Corvera Last Friday, the 6th of September, a representative from the Government of the Murcia Autonomous Region, Mr. José Ballesta, announced that Aena and the Ministry of Defence are about to reach an agreement so that Murcia-San Javier is closed for commercial flights, which will be transferred to Corvera airport after a long period in which the latter airport has been closed.An agreement might have been reached to cancel the contract for the Corvera-Airport to the current concession company since they would have failed in their obligation as to the opening date. The agreement could be confirmed this…

New Menorca based startup to be presented this week Standard

According to the information from hosteltur, Mariano Bendito and Lorenzo Moll, two entrepreneurs from Menorca, are working on a new Menorca based startup for the island which may solve its lack of connectivity. They already have the support from the Balearic institutions, a bank and several other entrepreneurs. Also, they would count with the “Aena’s receptiveness”.The project will be presented on the 13th of September and would foresee the lease of three 109-seater Fokker-100’s and one 78-seater Fokker-70 to operate interisland flights as well as to connect Menorca with other Spanish cities. Later on, they would seek to operate with other European destinations…

The new Iberia low fare to face up to the low cost airlines Standard

This Saturday Iberia will launch the new Iberia low fare: a new offer aiming to gain new customers who seek good prices in the short and medium haul.The basic Iberia low fare will apply to routes where they compete with Ryanair or easyJet: domestic flights or connections with Europe with the exception of London. They would have explained that it does not make sense to apply this policy in the route unless it has been agreed with British Airways, with whom they form IAG.The Commercial Director for the Spanish airline, Marco Sansavini, did not want to reveal fares in a…