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Airlines programme more than 81 million seats in winter Standard

Aena increase

According to the press release published by AENA, the airline programs have increased a 3.7% on next winter 2013 season comparing with W12, with an offer of more than 81 million seats.The prevision means an increase by airports of: 1.9% in MAD with more than 21 million seats offered , BCN +5% with more than 16 million seats, AGP +10.5% with more than 4 million seats and ALC +13.4% more than 3.5 million seats offered.There is a significant increase in the seats offered in the Canary Airports; TFS +16.3% with more than 5 million, TFN +6.3% with more than 2 million, LPA +13% with…

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…

Air Nostrum to lease out six aircrafts Standard

The Air Nostrum plan to increase revenues by leasing a part of their fleet is starting to work. After several attempts to rent some aircrafts to operators from Panama or Uruguay, the airline is about to reach an agreement and lease some planes to an Argentine airline.According to local media Sol Líneas Aéreas will operate between two and six 50-seater CRJ-200 from the Air Nostrum fleet as from October, who no longer use this aircraft type due to lack of efficiency for their traditional schedule market.This operation would follow the new guidelines that Carlos Bertomeu, CEO for Air Nostrum, announced last November. The airline started a…

Goodfly to connect Tenerife with Rome, London and Berlin Standard

Goodfly Logo

We have noticed that many of you are seeking information about Goodfly, in continuation with our post which gave some details about them.You might like to know that they are now using the Danube Wings fleet to operate their programme.In fact, the Danube Wings IATA and ICAO codes (V5/VPA) are displayed in the Aena’s web site as Goodfly.As already explained, Goodfly do not have an AOC.In other news, La Opinión de Tenerife reports that Goodfly have announced new direct flights to connect Tenerife North with Rome-Fumicino, Berlin-Tegel and London-Heathrow starting in the second week of October.According to this piece of news, Goodfly clarified some of these connections are…

Vueling shares no longer listed Standard

Vueling shares are no longer listed on the stock exchange According to the information found in lainformacion.com Vueling shares are no longer listed on the stock exchange since the 9th of August once the takeover bid by Veloz Holdco has been settled. Veloz Holdco is a subsidiary of IAG, which is the resulting company from the merger of Iberia and British Airways. IAG is supposed to hold Vueling shares by 97.52%    

Ryanair and Easyjet lost passengers in Spain last June Standard

According to the media, both Ryanair and Easyjet lost passengers in Spain last June. If we compare June 2012 with June 2013, Ryanair has lost a 10% and Easyjet a 15%. On the other hand Vueling Airlines has increased passengers by 17% in the same period and they moved a 33% more than the total passenguers Iberia Airlines and Iberia Express moved, which in fact was a 26% less than last June 2012.Other airlines with huge passenger increases in June were: Air Europa (+11.8%), Lufthansa (+10%), Jet2.com(+19%) and Air Berlin (+9%)In spite of their decrease, Ryanair was the airline with more passengers in Spain (3.3 million), followed byVueling Airlines (2.3 million), Iberia Airlines and Iberia Express (1.7 million), Air Europa (1.2 million), Easyjetand Air Berlin (1.1 milion each of them).

Spanish operator Goodfly to start Murcia-Tenerife Standard

The Spanish operator Goodfly: According to LaInformacion.com the “airline” Good Fly has announced they will start the route Murcia-Tenerife in September, to be operated twice a week. Being a Spanish operator, they are not an airline thought.Many Spanish media reffer to Goodfly as an airline, however it is not registered as a proper airline with the Spanish Civil Aviation Authority, either as “Category A” or “Category B” (the latter category includes airlines allowed to operate only aircrafts lighter than 10 tones and/or with less than 20 seats). That is why Goodfly is not displayed in our airline data base.Checking the reference from Wikipedia in…

Madrid airport receives the passenger 1000 million Standard

Madrid airport Terminal 4 / shutterstock

Today Elena Mayoral, director for Madrid airport, is welcoming the passenger 1000 million at the airport. Nowadays there are tens of airlines flying to nearly 200 destinations in 65 countries and 45 million travellers go through the airport every year. Recently it was the 80th aniversary of the first commercial flight which took place on May 14 1933, when a Fokker VII/3M landed at Barajas Airport.But it was LAPE, which would become Iberia later, the airline that started schedule operations to Barcelona and Sevilla with 8 passenger and 2 crew members which fitted in that aircraft.The “Madrid International Airport” operated…

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…