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Barcelona might overcome Madrid for the first time Standard

According to the information found on the media Barcelona airport will overcome Madrid in passengers, during the month of June, for the first time in its history. It continues to say: If this gets confirmed, it would be a timely event only. In fact, From January to May, Madrid airport has 2.7 million passengers more than Barcelona. The reason behind this might be the Iberia and Ryanair drops in Madrid, together with the strong increase of Vueling in Baercelona. Still, it is true that Barcelona has been getting closer to Madrid month after month. Using our Airport Statistics for Mad and Bcn…

Bookings for the summer have increased Standard

Mr. Soria has emphasized that in summer 2013 AENA estimate an increase by 0.6% on movements and by 0.8% on seats. However, he pointed out that these figures will be subject to the development of the ongoing isues in countries like Greece and Turkey, which compete with Spain, specially in the segment of ‘sun and beach’.Mr. Soria has highlighted that Spain is the world leader in the sector with 57.7 million of tourists in the past year, a positive inclination that is keeping on in this exercise, from January to May the arrivals increased over 3% and the spending increased…

Winter 2013 available for the online Statistics Standard

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Winter 2013: For those who are already taking advantage from our online airport statistic customized tool, please be informed that the details related to the winter 2013 season have been already uploaded.Thus, you can already access the information at any time here.Please do not hesitate to contact with us if you had any queries.

Swissport Employees call a strike starting 25Jun Standard

Strike of Swissport employees

According to Expansión.com Unions have called all Swissport Employees for a strike in Madrid and Lanzarote in protest at working conditions and salaries.Stops at Madrid airport have been scheduled as follows:28Jun, 30Jun and 01Jul: H24 05Jul, 07Jul and 08Jul: from 08:30 to 11:30 and from 18:00 to 21:00.With regard to Lanzarote, stops have been called for:02Jul and 09Jul: from 08:00 to 11:00 and from 15:00 to 19:00.04Jul and 11Jul: from 08:00 to 12:00 and from 16:00 to 23:59 (as it is clarified in EuropaPress).These stops will coincide with the ones called in Swissport Spain—formerly Flightcare—at Barcelona, Alicante, Málaga, Jerez, Almería, Fuerteventura and ValenciaThe schedule of the strike…

Evelop: the name of the airline by Barceló Standard

Evelop is the name which the Barceló Group has chosen for the new airline. It is to be 100% owned by Barceló Viajes SL. The Palma based Group.Evelop will operate charter and schedule flights. This is the conclusion from the information stated in the initial plans of the group. Since one year and a half ago they have focused on the tour operator that they created.Ms Antonia Barceló Tous is expected to become chief executive officer for the new airline. The air division of the Barceló Group was so far made up from Orbest Poretugal. Since June, they have been operating…

60% of the passengers fly to Valencia with Low Cost airlines Standard

Despite the 54 million euro investment to improve the facilities, the figures of Valencia airport are not getting any better.According to the information published by Aena, Valencia lost passengers by 0.6% with regard to May 2012.Only low cost airlines can keep the airport operating, since they bring 60% of the passengers—information from Valencia Turism provided by Aena—to Valencia.Ryanair is the first operator at the aiport. In 2012 they transported 41% of the passengers. For the current summer season, they offer flights to 33 destinations: 9 domestic and 24 international.The other 20% is distributed among Vueling (9%), easyJet (4%), Transavia (3%) and Wizz Air (3%)After them, Volotea is back in Valencia…

Norwegian to help Aena fight the easyJet and Ryanair duopoly Standard

Norwegian will become the airline which Aena would have been looking for since some time ago. They are supposed to help Aena in fighting the Ryanair and easyJet duopoly on the Madrid airport low cost industry. Hence, they are finishing the negotiations to open two operational bases at Madrid and Barcelona.According to this piece of news, it is in Madrid more than in Barcelona, where easyJet and, above all, Ryanair use their capacity to break the will of the Spanish Government.The different interests of the biggest low cost airlines with regard to the Aena’s transformation process are even more obvious…

Spain loses air traffic by 6.6% until May Standard

According to the stats published by Aena, the Spanish airports registered 66,305,130 passengers between January and May 2013. This means a decrease by 6.6% compared with 2012.Madrid would have had 15,373,092 clients: 14.7% less than within the same period last year.Looking at May separately 16,885,317 passengers would have used the Spanish airports during this month. This is 1.9% below last year. Aena highlights the fact that this drop represents an attenuation of nearly 6 points with regard to the 7.7% drop that took place in May 2012.With this passenger loss, the Spanish airports count 17 consecutive months registering decreases, since…

Bus users increase, airplane passengers decrease, Standard

Bus users increase

According to the information from the Statistic National Institute (INE) the number of passengers who chose the airplane for their domestic trips fell by 16.1% in April. The passengers who travel by train decreased by 2.9%.In total, over 105.3 million people used an intercity transportation in April. This means an increase by 2.1% with drops in every way of transport but the bus, which increased by 7.6%.In the case of the train, the decrease was in the short distance (3.6%), however the long haul gained passengers by 9.5%. Medium haul also increased passengers, but by 0.7%.   Source: Elmundo.es bus

The Ministry forced to lose the control over Aena Standard

Getting back to the privatization of Aena and considering the results from the consultation process that they had performed, the company has already arranged the details for such operation, which would correspond to 51% of the capital. The possibility of selling the company only by 49% would reduce the value of the operation considering that the private partners would still have to depend on the Ministry of Public Works. Hence, they would now be willing to lose the control over Aena. The advisors have recommended that Aena forgets about selling a minority part of the public company because it is not attractive to…