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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…

AENA clarifies Airport charges increases Standard

Aena increase

Following to ABC’s news of yesterday, AENA has published a press release confirming the agreement reached with the airlines that contains the following points:• The agreement provides an update of rates increase for the next five years (2014-2018). In particular, the document says:– 2014: CPI + 1 point– 2015: CPI + 3 points– 2016, 2017 and 2018: CPI + 4 points• The agreement sets 1st of March as the effective date for annual revision. Consequently this increase will not affect to January and February 2014.• The reduction of fee for Passenger on Connecting flights will be increased gradually fm 20% to 40%…

Agreement on the airport charges increase Standard

ageement on charges

Following with the Aena’s charges increase and our previous posts to this respect, ABC.es informs today about the fact thatthe airport charge increase will be CPI plus one point in 2014.AENA will announce today the tentative agreement reached with the airlines to absorb the rise in airport charges for the next five years.This agreement shall be signed by the Minister of Development, Ms. Ana Pastor and the airline associations ALA and ACETA. With this, they foresee a significant reduction over the expected increases until 2018.According to sources close to the negotiations, the agreement goes through an increase for the forthcoming year 2014 of CPI…

Palma will negotiate new routes with twenty airlines Standard

The Palma de Mallorca Tourism 365 Foundation, the entity responsible for promoting the Balearic capital, is going to hold conversations with up to 20 airlines that connect the Island with its main markets (Germany, UK, Scandinavian countries and, although even with low volume, Russia), with the intention of opening new routes out of high season, and informing of the available resources that could be attractive to customers in low season.There is already a Air Rout Development at Palma Airport, formed by the City Council, Aena, the Balearic Government, the Government Delegation Office, the Mallorca’s Consell and the Chamber of Commerce…

Norwegian to open a base at Tenerife which will connect the island with 16 EU destinations Standard

The airline Norwegian is opening a base at Tenerife which will connect the island with 16 EU destinations. According to Mr. Carlos Alonso, the Vice-president for the Council of Tenerife, the economic impact of this new base will be 28.9 million only in its first year of operation.Carlos Alonso explained that Tenerife has traditionally been connected with the Nordic market through charter flights and only during the winter, so this is the first time that the island will have schedule flights to this destination.Carlos Alonso has reminded that Tenerife leads the British, German and peninsular markets, so with this new base we…

Melilla Airlines: New Spanish airline to fly Málaga-Melilla Standard

Melilla Airlines has born in order to cover Málaga-Melilla route with an ATR aircraft which will be based in Melilla.Ticket prices will go from 69 Euros with an estimated average of 83 Euros for residents.Tickets are only available in Travel Agencies   Source: ideal.es

Aerocanarias: Canary entrepreneurs’ new startup Standard

Aerocanarias: A group of canary entrepreneurs headed by Carmelo Padilla, are finalizing the creation of a new airline called Aerocanarias that could replace Spanair by covering the hole left by that airline after its bankruptcy in January 2012.This project is being managed a few months ago to operate routes to the mainland and between the islandsShortly after Spanair announced its closure, Carmelo Padilla registered the domain aerocanarias.com, thus the company can operate on the Internet as soon as it has been established and implemented. Another indication that the project is still going on, is the fact that the digital rights of…