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IAG lost 1.6 million passengers. Ryanair 2.3 million Airlines

IAG lost 1.6 million passengers

After Aena published the statistics in the Spanish airports, many pieces of news reflect and try to explain the passenger loss between January and August 2013. Trying to do so, we have extracted the figures for such period in 2012 and 2013 and have created a spreadsheet with the passenger difference that each operator served in the Spanish airports.The result is a very comprehensive list which includes all the operators with over 1 million passengers from which we can highlight the following:IAG lost 1.6 million passengers. This means Iberia, Iberia Express, Vueling and British Airways, all together, have an overall decrease…

The new Iberia low fare to face up to the low cost airlines Airlines

This Saturday Iberia will launch the new Iberia low fare: a new offer aiming to gain new customers who seek good prices in the short and medium haul.The basic Iberia low fare will apply to routes where they compete with Ryanair or easyJet: domestic flights or connections with Europe with the exception of London. They would have explained that it does not make sense to apply this policy in the route unless it has been agreed with British Airways, with whom they form IAG.The Commercial Director for the Spanish airline, Marco Sansavini, did not want to reveal fares in a…

Vueling shares no longer listed Airlines

Vueling shares are no longer listed on the stock exchange According to the information found in lainformacion.com Vueling shares are no longer listed on the stock exchange since the 9th of August once the takeover bid by Veloz Holdco has been settled. Veloz Holdco is a subsidiary of IAG, which is the resulting company from the merger of Iberia and British Airways. IAG is supposed to hold Vueling shares by 97.52%    

Ryanair and Easyjet lost passengers in Spain last June Airlines

According to the media, both Ryanair and Easyjet lost passengers in Spain last June. If we compare June 2012 with June 2013, Ryanair has lost a 10% and Easyjet a 15%. On the other hand Vueling Airlines has increased passengers by 17% in the same period and they moved a 33% more than the total passenguers Iberia Airlines and Iberia Express moved, which in fact was a 26% less than last June 2012.Other airlines with huge passenger increases in June were: Air Europa (+11.8%), Lufthansa (+10%), Jet2.com(+19%) and Air Berlin (+9%)In spite of their decrease, Ryanair was the airline with more passengers in Spain (3.3 million), followed byVueling Airlines (2.3 million), Iberia Airlines and Iberia Express (1.7 million), Air Europa (1.2 million), Easyjetand Air Berlin (1.1 milion each of them).

Spanish Airports double Russian passenger numbers Airports

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995,000 Russian passengers used the Spanish airports in 2008. In 2012 these numbers were doubled to reach 2.1 million.The main increase has taken place in Barcelona where they tripled passengers figures to get 1.2 million in 2012. Madrid increased these passengers by 24% in the last 5 years.Tenrife South had over 173,300 passengers from the Russian Federation in 2012. This is 74.8% over the figures of 2008.In Palma, this kind of traffic multiplied by over 3 to reach 163,000 passengers in 2012.Málaga got 92,106 travellers, increasing by 70.2%.The number of flights has increased by nearly 80% in the same period,…

Traffic evolution in Madrid and Barcelona Airports,FC Tools

As anticipated in this blog Barcelona has been about to receive the same number of passengers as Madrid during the month of June. Contrary to what PeriodistaDigital expected and in line with the estimations calculated with our airport stat tool, Madrid would have still had 45,842 passengers more than Barcelona (42,817 if we consider commercial traffic).To this respect, elperiodico.com explains that the Aena estimations for Madrid at the end of the year are 40 million passengers and for Barcelona, 35 million. However, during the month of June Madrid lost passengers by 14.9% and Barcelona gained traffic by 2.7%.For further information, this is the breakdown on Madrid…

Madrid airport receives the passenger 1000 million Airlines

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Today Elena Mayoral, director for Madrid airport, is welcoming the passenger 1000 million at the airport. Nowadays there are tens of airlines flying to nearly 200 destinations in 65 countries and 45 million travellers go through the airport every year. Recently it was the 80th aniversary of the first commercial flight which took place on May 14 1933, when a Fokker VII/3M landed at Barajas Airport.But it was LAPE, which would become Iberia later, the airline that started schedule operations to Barcelona and Sevilla with 8 passenger and 2 crew members which fitted in that aircraft.The “Madrid International Airport” operated…

Barcelona might overcome Madrid for the first time Airports,FC Tools

According to the information found on the media Barcelona airport will overcome Madrid in passengers, during the month of June, for the first time in its history. It continues to say: If this gets confirmed, it would be a timely event only. In fact, From January to May, Madrid airport has 2.7 million passengers more than Barcelona. The reason behind this might be the Iberia and Ryanair drops in Madrid, together with the strong increase of Vueling in Baercelona. Still, it is true that Barcelona has been getting closer to Madrid month after month. Using our Airport Statistics for Mad and Bcn…

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,…