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Agreement between the Government of Murcia and Aena on Corvera Airports

Once the contract of Sacyr has been cancelled as we had explained in this blog, MurciaEconomia.com informs that the Government of Murcia and Aena reached an agreement. The president of the Autonomous Region— Ramón Luis Valcárcel—reached an agreement with the Minister of Development—Ana Pastor— and the president of Aena—José Manuel Vargas—on Monday to transfer all commercial flights from San Javier to Corvera AirportDuring the meeting they anticipated that Aena would have to be compensated for the investment made in San Javier, now estimated at 54 million euros, to be paid between the Ministry of Defence and the company which gets the license for the exploitation of Corvera….

Restructuring process in Aena Regulations

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…

Airlines reach an agreement with AENA to withdraw appeal Charges

According to lainformacion, the Airlines Association (ALA) has reached an agreement with AENA to withdraw the administrative appeal submitted before the Courts due to airport fee increases.This announcement comes after the agreement reached in May on maximum airport fees for the next five years between Aena and the airline associations involved in the consultation process.This agreement, has been signed by ALA’s President Mr. Pablo Olmeda and AENA’s General Director, Mr. Javier Marín.According to Mr. Olmeda, this agreement, together with the one reached in May, is opening a way of cooperation and understanding between the airlines and AENA that will be beneficial for the…

Airlines programme more than 81 million seats in winter Airlines

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…

Murcia-San Javier to be transferred to Corvera Airports

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…

Handling licenses in Spain Handling

In continuation with the tender for the handling licenses in Spain, please see below the following two pieces of news which might be of your interest:Menzies aims to become one of the 3 main handling operators in SpainEuropa Press informs that Menzies will place bids to become one of the three main handling operators in Spain.They aim to get the ramp handling licences for, at least, one of the 3 groups in which the 24 smaller airports have been spread. Each group would have an overall passenger volume by 3 million and they will be the first invitation to tender. Afterwards, there…

Higher fees expected if Fomento privatize AENA Charges

Fomento privatize AENA: Aena is studying to privatize the 51% of its shares; consequently airlines are expressing their alarm to Ministry of Development (Fomento) about the possibility of AENA to become a “private monopoly” that would increase the prices by offering lower quality services. To avoid the monopoly, the AECA’s President Mr. Felipe Navío, proposes AENA to split into three companies, each one headed by Madrid Barajas, Barcelona El Prat and Palma de Mallorca Son Sant Joan.Within the group of Madrid would be included Alicante, Ibiza, Fuerteventura, Tenerife North and Santiago airports. Barcelona would integrate Las Palmas, Arrecife, Sevilla, Mahon…

Fomento fixes the increases of Airport charges for the next five years Charges,Regulations

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On 3rd August it has been published in the BOE a modification of Law 21/2003 by which is ratified the agreement reached between AENA and the airlines association to control the increase in airport charges in the coming years.According to this, the maximum increases allowed for the next five years are 2.5% in 2014, 4.5% in 2015 and 5.5% in 2016, 2017 and 2018.From 2019 onwards, AENA reserves the right to recover the deficit incurred by increasing the airport charges. Source: B.O.E.  

New Air Security fee: F factor Charges,Regulations

As we had already anticipated here, the “Ley de Seguridad Aerea” has been finally modified by the Government and consequently the F Factor fee currently for 0.38€, has been replaced by a new one named “Tasa de Seguridad Aérea” of 0.579885€ per departing passenger, as it was published on the Official Gazette BOE on 5th July 2013.The new tax will be effective on 5th October 2013 and it won’t be charged to those passengers who had acquired their ticket in a date prior to the entry into force of the fee, regardless of the flight date.It is also confirmed that the…

Aena to sell Aena Aeropuertos by 51% after buying Luton Airport Airports,Regulations

Today, we are translating this piece of news that eldiario.es published yesterday. We believe this may help to follow the current situation in the privatisation of Aena Aeropuertos: Sources from Aena have confirmed they are about to reach an agreement with Abertis in order to disinvest from twenty international airports that they own and manage through TBI. They intend to get rid of all but Luton Airport. All the shares from TBI—currently Abertis (90%) and Aena (10%)—would go to the public company, with the financial support from the insurance company AXA. Experts from the airport industry have assured that the acquisition of Luton by Aena…