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IAG lost 1.6 million passengers. Ryanair 2.3 million Airlines

By Jorge Masot – 18 September, 2013
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AirEuropa, AirNostrum, AptStats, Binter, easyJet, IAG, Iberia, Norwegian, Ryanair

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…

Norwegian to help Aena fight the easyJet and Ryanair duopoly Airlines

By Jorge Masot – 13 June, 2013
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Aena, Alicante, Barcelona, easyJet, FinancialCrisis, Fleets, GranCanaria, Iberia, Investments, LowCost, Madrid, Málaga, Norwegian, Privatisation, Ryanair, Tenerife, Vueling

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…

Norwegian to open a base at Tenerife which will connect the island with 16 EU destinations Airlines,Airports

By Mabel Jiménez – 21 May, 2013
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Canaries, LowCost, NewRoutes, Norwegian, Tenerife

The airline Norwegian is opening a base at Tenerife which will connect the island with 16 EU destinations. According to Mr. Carlos Alonso, the Vice-president for the Council of Tenerife, the economic impact of this new base will be 28.9 million only in its first year of operation.Carlos Alonso explained that Tenerife has traditionally been connected with the Nordic market through charter flights and only during the winter, so this is the first time that the island will have schedule flights to this destination.Carlos Alonso has reminded that Tenerife leads the British, German and peninsular markets, so with this new base we…