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Works to improve the Gran Canaria airport terminal Airports

By Jorge Masot – 2 September, 2013
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AptCapacity, GranCanaria, Investments, ProfitableAirports, Works

On the 28th of August Aena published a press release about the works which are being carried out at Gran Canaria Airport. A summary translation follows below for your information: The new configuration for the security controls will be already working tomorrow, the 29th of August. This will let passengers go to the boarding area through the duty-free shops placed just behind it. Aena is carrying out these works in phases in order to minimize the impact on the passengers, scheduling most of them in low season. All phases will be available in peak periods. The target in this first phase…

Four out of the ten most profitable Spanish airports are in the Canaries Airports

By Jorge Masot – 23 July, 2013
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Aena, Canaries, FifthFreedom, Fuerteventura, GranCanaria, Investments, Lanzarote, Madrid, ProfitableAirports, Tenerife

After the huge investment during the last years in the Spanish airport net there are three terminals which are closed, four have no scheduled flights and other twelve which hardly have planes.Out of the 42 airports managed by Aena, only 10 are profitable and 4 out of them are in the Canaries. Tenerife South is leading this profitable airport list. The most updated information from the Ministry of Public Works (Fomento) is of 2011 when Tenerife South got a profit for 24.98 million euros, Gran Canaria obtained 22.93 million and Lanzarote 8.67 million. Fuerteventura finished that year with a balance for 1.21 million euros. In the contrary, La Palma lost…

Aena will apply a bonus on the Palma Airport rates Airports,Charges

By Mabel Jiménez – 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…