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Bookings for the summer have increased Airports

Mr. Soria has emphasized that in summer 2013 AENA estimate an increase by 0.6% on movements and by 0.8% on seats. However, he pointed out that these figures will be subject to the development of the ongoing isues in countries like Greece and Turkey, which compete with Spain, specially in the segment of ‘sun and beach’.Mr. Soria has highlighted that Spain is the world leader in the sector with 57.7 million of tourists in the past year, a positive inclination that is keeping on in this exercise, from January to May the arrivals increased over 3% and the spending increased…

Norwegian to help Aena fight the easyJet and Ryanair duopoly Airlines

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…

Fewer flights, bigger airfrafts Airports,FC Tools

Today we find in the Spanish media the following news which might be of your interest:According to the estimations of Aena the airlines increase by 10% the number of seats offered to the Canaries, the Balearics, the Mediterranean area and the international routes. However, in the whole Spanish Airport net, the available seats decrease by 7% overall. The number of slots held drop by 8.4% in the Spanish airports. Sources from Aena explain that the financial crisis is impacting, above all, on the domestic flights. Also there is a trend towards bigger airfrafts so the number of flights is lower,…

Madrid airport at the bottom of the European list Airports

According the the Airports Council International and their European list on traffic in the airports, Madrid Barajas is the one which suffered the highest passenger loss during the first three months in 2013. The tax increase caused some route closures and made some airlines like easyJet decrease traffic.The economic situation and the Iberia strike have also contributed in this passenger loss.Hence, the number of passengers has decreased in Madrid by 13.9% to reach 3.2 million in March. When it comes to Barcelona, it has fallen by 2.5% to 2.5 million passengers.Some airports improvePalma de Mallorca has gained passengers by 2.5%, Tenerife Sur by 2.8% and Málaga by 0.8%. Lanzarote(2.4%), Alicante (1.9%) and Girona (4.1%) also…

Aena to moderate the increases as from 2014 Charges

Aena to moderate the increases: Following with our post about a possible moderation in the increase of charges that Aena might be considering, laprovincia.es informed on Wednesday in the same direction.According to this piece of news, the drop in traffic might have forced Aena to moderate the increases.In spite of the fact that the law allows Aena to increase their charges with 5 points over the CPI, Aena would be willing to soften the financial crisis impact on the industry. Hence, they would have specified that these increases might be moderated as from 2014.The option they are working with at this moment is to…

The Spanish airports lost over 16 million passengers Airports

Since the beginning of the financial crisis, the Spanish airports lost 16.3 million passengers. According to the data published by Aena, 2012 ended with 194.2 million passengers. This means a decrease by 7.7% in comparison with 2007, when 210.5 million passengers used the Spanish facilities. In 2008 and 2009 the number of passengers decreased by 2.4% and 9.4% respectively. However, in 2010 and 2011 the figures increased by 2.8% and 6% respectively. This let the Spanish airports have over 204 million travellers. But in 2012 the downward trend appeared again and the airports lost passengers by 5% with regards to…