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).
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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…
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…
60% of the passengers fly to Valencia with Low Cost airlines Airlines,Airports,FC Tools
Despite the 54 million euro investment to improve the facilities, the figures of Valencia airport are not getting any better.According to the information published by Aena, Valencia lost passengers by 0.6% with regard to May 2012.Only low cost airlines can keep the airport operating, since they bring 60% of the passengers—information from Valencia Turism provided by Aena—to Valencia.Ryanair is the first operator at the aiport. In 2012 they transported 41% of the passengers. For the current summer season, they offer flights to 33 destinations: 9 domestic and 24 international.The other 20% is distributed among Vueling (9%), easyJet (4%), Transavia (3%) and Wizz Air (3%)After them, Volotea is back in Valencia…
Norwegian to help Aena fight the easyJet and Ryanair duopoly Airlines
- – 13 June, 2013
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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…
