Aena has published the statistics related to the Spanish Airports between January and August 2013. You can find a copy of the spreadsheet here. It shows detail on the traffic evolution at each airport. The file has two tabs at the bottom left corner: one with the figures for the month of August and the other one with overall data between January and August. Each tab shows three tables with detail on passengers, operations and cargo respectively.It is worth noting that Barcelona is in August, for the first time, the airport leading the ranking for passengers in Spain, after all the summer…
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New Menorca based startup to be presented this week Airlines
- – 9 September, 2013
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Ibiza, Investments, Madrid, Menorca, MenorcaAirlines, NewRoutes, Palma, Ryanair, Valencia
According to the information from hosteltur, Mariano Bendito and Lorenzo Moll, two entrepreneurs from Menorca, are working on a new Menorca based startup for the island which may solve its lack of connectivity. They already have the support from the Balearic institutions, a bank and several other entrepreneurs. Also, they would count with the “Aena’s receptiveness”.The project will be presented on the 13th of September and would foresee the lease of three 109-seater Fokker-100’s and one 78-seater Fokker-70 to operate interisland flights as well as to connect Menorca with other Spanish cities. Later on, they would seek to operate with other European destinations…
Spanish Airports double Russian passenger numbers Airports
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 the Spanish Airports Airports,FC Tools
Balearic Islands:Palma airport: As explained by Aena it has reached the highest amount of passengers for a month of Jun in its history: 2,956,506 people. This means an increase by 1.3% with regard to June 2012.As for January-June 2013, Palma has increased passengers by 0.8% reaching the amount of 9,284,504.It is worth mentioning the increase of traffic from the Russian Federation (26%), from Sweden (10.9%), from Norway (8.4%), from the UK (5.9%) and from Germany (8.3%).Ibiza airport: Aena informed that has also reached historic figures for the month of June, with 852,031 people. This supposes an increase by 6.8% against June 2012.January-June 2013 confirm an increase…
Aena will apply a bonus on the Palma Airport rates Airports,Charges
- – 3 July, 2013
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- Balearics, Canaries, Palma, ProfitableAirports
The AENA’s General Manager, Mr. Javier Marín, has announced they will progressively apply a bonus of up to 40% on airport rates in Palma during the winter months by an agreement signed with the Mayor of Palma de Mallorca under the frame of Fundación Turismo Palma de Mallorca 365, with the intention of bringing down the seasonality of this airport.During the act, Mr. Marin has highlighted the passenger’s inflow by 65% in summer compared to 35% in winter. Thus, Baleares is the only area that may benefit from this measure. According to Preferente.com, he defended the non application in the Canaries because the…
Evelop: the name of the airline by Barceló Startups
- – 21 June, 2013
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- Barceló, Evelop, Globalia, Palma, Pullmantur
Evelop is the name which the Barceló Group has chosen for the new airline. It is to be 100% owned by Barceló Viajes SL. The Palma based Group.Evelop will operate charter and schedule flights. This is the conclusion from the information stated in the initial plans of the group. Since one year and a half ago they have focused on the tour operator that they created.Ms Antonia Barceló Tous is expected to become chief executive officer for the new airline. The air division of the Barceló Group was so far made up from Orbest Poretugal. Since June, they have been operating…
Spain loses air traffic by 6.6% until May Airports,FC Tools
According to the stats published by Aena, the Spanish airports registered 66,305,130 passengers between January and May 2013. This means a decrease by 6.6% compared with 2012.Madrid would have had 15,373,092 clients: 14.7% less than within the same period last year.Looking at May separately 16,885,317 passengers would have used the Spanish airports during this month. This is 1.9% below last year. Aena highlights the fact that this drop represents an attenuation of nearly 6 points with regard to the 7.7% drop that took place in May 2012.With this passenger loss, the Spanish airports count 17 consecutive months registering decreases, since…
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,…
Palma will negotiate new routes with twenty airlines Airlines,Airports
The Palma de Mallorca Tourism 365 Foundation, the entity responsible for promoting the Balearic capital, is going to hold conversations with up to 20 airlines that connect the Island with its main markets (Germany, UK, Scandinavian countries and, although even with low volume, Russia), with the intention of opening new routes out of high season, and informing of the available resources that could be attractive to customers in low season.There is already a Air Rout Development at Palma Airport, formed by the City Council, Aena, the Balearic Government, the Government Delegation Office, the Mallorca’s Consell and the Chamber of Commerce…
Madrid testing the CDM to optimise air traffic Handling
Madrid testing the CDM: Yesterday, Madrid airport started the first operational tests of the A-CDM—Airport Collaborative Decision Making—within this project, promoted by Eurocontrol, which is intended to optimise the air traffic management while punctuality and operational efficiency improve at this airport.Hence, the first DPI message—Departure Planning Information—was sent yesterday from the CDM platform to Eurocontrol. This information allows Eurocontrol to know the situation of each flight in real time, letting them optimise the capacity and, if necessary, apply regulations based on up-to-date information.Airlines and handling agents will have data as much as possible in advance, the planning will be better…
