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A new model for the slot coordination in Spain has been approved Regulations

Aircraft on runway

In continuation with the ongoing restructuring process of Aena, last Friday, the Council of Ministers approved a Royal Decree to define a new body, composed of Aena and airlines, to allocate the slots in the Spanish airports. Afterwards, the Ministry of Fomento published a press release which we have translated as follows: A new model for the slot coordination has been approved The Council of Ministers has approved today, through a Royal Decree, a new regulatory framework for the Slot Coordination in the Spanish airports. This new rule fixes an independent coordination body, composed of Aena Aeropuertos and airlines which operate in our…

Meteorological service to be charged in all flights from Spain Charges,Regulations

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As we advanced in this blog all amendments referred to the Aena’s charges included in the State Budget were confirmed by the publication in the Official Gazette B.O.E on 26th December 2013. It must be stressed that the meteorological service will be charged to all flights operating to the Aena’s airports.To sum up: With effect 01.03.14 the airport charges will be increased by 0.9 %. The increase will not be applied to the PMR fee which is set in 0.61€ per departure passenger in all the Aena’s airports. The minimum landing and aerodrome charges for the airports of groups IV and V, remain unchanged. The minimum landing and aerodrome charges for…

Airlines can place ads on the Aena’s web site Airports

ads in the Aena's web

Airlines operating to the Spanish airports can place ads with offers, discounts or informing about new routes on the Aenas’s web siteThis service is free of charge and non-discriminatory.Moreover, airlines can place free banner advertisements on the Aena’s web site to inform about the new routes so that the passenger can access the airline’s web site directly.According to sources from the Government “Aena Aeropuertos have included these actions in their Marketing Support Programme. Apart from placing ads on the web, they offer the possibility of arranging an inauguration event with the press or providing some areas for ads at the airports”….

Approach charges to be billed by Eurocontrol Charges

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Eurocontol has notified through an Information Circular that, with effect 1st January 2014, the Air Navigation Terminal charges are billed and collected by them on behalf of AENA.Furthermore AENA Group informs to all users affected, that charges related to December operations shall be paid to Aena as usual.Charges related to flights operated in any AENA airport from 1st January 2014 onwards will be billed and collected by Eurocontrol as it is done for the en-route charge.   Source: Eurocontrol

Madrid, first Autonomous Region with an Airport Coordination Committee Airports,Charges,Regulations

Air Europa connected to finger

The first Airport Coordination Committee has been established in the Madrid Autonomous Region, but each Region is expected to go creating its own committee within the forthcoming months.These Airport coordination committees intend to offer a way of participation in the airport management to the public authorities. According to the Royal Decree-law 20/2012 the tasks of these committees are: Ensure an appropriate airport service quality, suggesting the actions which may be considered necessary to boost the airport activity. Cooperate with Aena Aeropuertos and the correspondent authorities in the definition of the strategies regarding the airports of that Autonomous Region. Especially with regard to the commercial…

Aena’s press release on Handling Tender Handling,Regulations

Groundforce equipment in Madrid airport by José Masot

As anticipated in this blog Aena published the terms and conditions for the Handling Tender and launched a press release which translation follows: Aena has started the first phase for the public ramp handling tender for third parties in 22 airports. The licenses awarded shall be in force for seven years. This first phase includes all airports with less than one million passengers per year. They will have one only handling agent. Thus, Aena continues with the handling license renewal which begun last spring when a consultation process started through which airlines and all concerned parties where invited to participate in the handling tender…

The Government to create a regulatory framework for the Aena privatisation Airports,Charges,Regulations

Ana Pastor in Nov 2007 by Partido Popular de Cataluña / Wikimedia Commons

The minister of Fomento, Ana Pastor, announced they are working on a regulatory framework for the Aena privatisation which guarantees the public interest of the Spanish airport net before its privatisation. This regulatory framework should have been developed by the end of the current year.However she said that the privatisation will start “only when the Government is ready and the appropriate market conditions are detected”.Pastor explained that the new regulatory framework “will set the maximum quality and service levels, as well as schemes for revenues and investments”. Also, the maximum charges would be regulated, considering that a big concern of…

Subsidies will be proportional to the growth in a route Airlines,Charges,Regulations

Subject to be approved in the Congress at the end of December, the text that defines the incentives in 2014 for passenger’s growth by routes in the Aena airports, has been published in the SenateBelow you can find a short summary for your better understanding, followed by our free translation from the amendment to the Budget published by the Senate:Three conditions must be met for an airline to be entitled to obtaining the incentive. That airline must increase passengers with regard to 2013 in: A particular route and The Aena’s airport of origin of this particular route as a whole and The Aena’s…

Profitable airports dropped to eight in 2012 Airports

Palma de Mallorca one of the profitable airports / shutterstock

Despite the efforts to reduce costs and increase revenues, in 2012 the number of profitable airports dropped from eleven to eight.Thus, the only profitable airports where Bilbao, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Valencia, Tenerife South, Seville, Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca. The latter two made a 73 million Euro profit each.Alicante, Valencia and Fuerteventura entered into losses in 2012, to join a list where Madrid, Málaga, Santiago de Compostela and La Palma are emphasised.Aena, chaired by José Manuel Vargas, expect an EBITDA of 1,600 million Euros at the end of this year. Traffic has dropped in the Spanish airports by 4.4% up to October, but the foreign passenger growth might help to improve figures at the end of the year. In the…

Aena would sacrifice the secondary airports to revive Madrid Airports,Regulations

Madrid airport Terminal 4 / shutterstock

The subsidies Aena is preparing with the aim of reducing the traffic loss at the main airports lead the Industry to conclude that there has been a change of strategies.Although in a different timeline, Brussels is working to strike down the practice of financing the loss making flights.This new system will penalise the secondary airports and boost the bigger ones, especially Madrid airport, as the airlines are supposed to concentrate more flights in fewer airports.This way Aena might be trying to balance a budget shortfall and the need to find a solution to the traffic loss from the main airports which are…