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Spanish slot coordination, AECFA started operations Charges,FC Tools,Regulations

Spanish slot coordination. Airplane ascending while another one is queing / Jumbero

Last Monday, September 15, the Spanish association AECFA started operations. As of that day, AECFA is responsible for the Spanish slot coordination and schedule facilitation in the airports. The name AECFA stands for Spanish Association of Coordination and Facilitation (in Spanish Asociación Española de Coordinación y FAcilitación). Flight Consulting has been following this information very closely since September last year, when we already informed about the ongoing restructuring process in Aena. During the first day, AECFA distributed the Slot Historical Lists (SHL) which make a start for the Summer 2015 season in terms of slot coordination. These lists are being used…

Flight Consulting 2.0 FC Tools

Sunrise at Barcelona airport / Flickr - Juanedc

We are delighted to share our brand new web site with you. On 10 April, 2013 we informed you that a dynamic web site was born. The target was to keep you easily up-to-date on the Spanish Aviation Industry, aiming to introduce our company – Flight Consulting – to everyone who does not know about us yet. Precisely, focused on making it easier, we have incorporated a new web design where the blog posts are spread in categories and tags in order to improve the user experience. The information you like is much easier to follow now. Hence, we have…

The new Aena Charges are already in force Charges,FC Tools,Regulations

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The new Aena charges: On March, 1 the Spanish Official Gazette (BOE) published the Law 1/2014. Through this law, the expected changes in the Aena charges are made official and have therefore immediate effect.As a consequence of this law, all fees charged by Aena since March 1 will be updated as previously explained in this summary.The Aena charges have been updated in our Flight Cost Calculator accordingly for your easy check and understanding. If you have any doubt just leave us a message.Due to the fact that Aena stopped collecting the approach charge, this fee does not appear in our FC Calculator any longer.On the other…

New meteorological service charge and other amendments in the Aena fees Charges,FC Tools,Regulations

Landing and TakeOff - meteorological service charge / Fotolia

The Government confirmed the final CPI for October at -0.1 and hence, the airport charges will increase by 0.9% with effect from 1 March 2014 as explained previously in this blog.While we are waiting for further detail on the subsidies that we had anticipated, the following changes have been introduced with regard to the airport charges in the Spanish airports. They are all included in the text sent by the Congress of Deputies to the Senate. This text will have to be confirmed and published in the Spanish Official Gazette (BOE).Meteorological servicesAirlines shall pay a meteorological service charge. This will be applicable to every flight which,…

0.9% Increase in 2014 for airport charges Charges,FC Tools,Regulations

0.9% increase in 2014 The advanced Spanish Cost Price Index (CPI) for October has been published by the National Institute of Statistics (INE). “The estimated inflation of the CPI in October 2013 is -0.1%”.Consequently, considering what we had explained in our post Budget 2014 – Aena charges, an overall 0.9% increase (CPI + 1%) is to be applied to the airport fees at all the Spanish airports.For information on the expected increases for 2015 and beyond, you can read our post AENA clarifies Airport fee increases for the next five yearsThis 0.9% increase shall be effective on 1 March 2014.For any kind of…

Budget 2014 – Aena charges Charges,FC Tools,Regulations

The State General Budget Law was submitted to the Parliament on 30th September. The airport fees for year 2014 are included.We can confirm that, as we previously informed here, the airport fees will be increased the equivalent to the October’s CPI plus one percentage point up to a limit of 2.5%. This will be effective from 1st March 2014.It is also important to highlight that the PMR charge, currently fixed in 0.61 € per departure passenger, has been frozen for year 2014, as published in Eleconomista.es.Also, according to LaInformacion.es the approach and en-route charges are suppossed to remain frozen in 2014.On the other hand,…

F factor to increase by 50% Charges,FC Tools,Regulations

The Governments’ party has proposed in the Congress an amendment to the “Ley de Seguridad Aérea de 2003” in order to replace the current F Factor (0.38 €) associated to the Security Tax, by a new rate to support the activities of supervision and inspection services performed by AESA.This new rate will be of € 0.58 per departing passenger from any Spanish Airport, and it will be reduced by the 15% on flights from Canary Islands, Balearic Islands, Ceuta and Melilla to peninsular airports, and by 70% on Inter-Island flights.The entry into force of the new rate will occur within…

The new way to the aviation in Spain FC Tools

Flight Consulting Image

It was about time! We have had this project in mind for a long time and finally today we are delighted to introduce our brand new web site to you. Like every other tool in Flight Consulting, this has been developed in-house. At last, we can show you the result: a dynamic web site thought to keep you easily up-to-date on the Aviation in Spain. It is intended not only for us to get to be known by all the people who don’t know us yet, but to open a new way and improve the quality of the services that…