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African Airlines considering stops in the Canaries for their US-bound flights Airlines,Airports

By Jorge Masot – 6 November, 2014
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Binter, Canaries, FifthFreedom, GranCanaria, Tenerife

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Casa Africa is a Spanish public organization aimed at promoting relationships between Africa, Europe and Spain. During the last months, they have held meetings with two of the main African airlines: Ethiopian Airlines and South African Airways. LaProvincia.es informed that the target of those meetings was to open new markets with the centre and south of their continent. During the conversations, Luis Padrón – Director of Casa Africa – offered the possibility of using the airports of the Canary Islands as a stop for their North America-bound flights. Especially, focused on the flights to the US in the case that the…

Four out of the ten most profitable Spanish airports are in the Canaries Airports

By Jorge Masot – 23 July, 2013
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Aena, Canaries, FifthFreedom, Fuerteventura, GranCanaria, Investments, Lanzarote, Madrid, ProfitableAirports, Tenerife

After the huge investment during the last years in the Spanish airport net there are three terminals which are closed, four have no scheduled flights and other twelve which hardly have planes.Out of the 42 airports managed by Aena, only 10 are profitable and 4 out of them are in the Canaries. Tenerife South is leading this profitable airport list. The most updated information from the Ministry of Public Works (Fomento) is of 2011 when Tenerife South got a profit for 24.98 million euros, Gran Canaria obtained 22.93 million and Lanzarote 8.67 million. Fuerteventura finished that year with a balance for 1.21 million euros. In the contrary, La Palma lost…