Located nearly halfway down Spain’s long coastline, Valencia is the country’s third most populous city and metro area. While less ‘touristy’ than better known cities and destinations, it has grown enormously recently. According to Aena figures, passengers exceeded one million for the first time in the airport’s history. Traffic rose by more than a fifth […]
August 28, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Spain’s Air Europa introduced a new seasonal domestic service between Barcelona and Lanzarote on the Canary Islands on Monday July 31. The 1,975-kilometre service will be maintained 2-weekly on Mondays and Fridays with the 186-seat 737-800 aircraft until 15 September. The Madrid-based carrier faces competition from Vueling, which runs 13-weekly flights on the route, as […]
August 2, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Last year Madrid ranked as Europe’s fifth busiest airport (after Istanbul IST, London LHR, Paris CDG and Amsterdam) handling 50.6m passengers. For comparison, in 2019 it also ranked fifth with 61.7m passengers, meaning that last year’s traffic was 18% lower than in the last pre-pandemic year. The dramatic drop in passenger numbers between 2011 and […]
March 13, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Cuba has welcomed its latest route from Europe. On 11 November, Spain’s charter carrier Iberojet introduced a weekly operation from Madrid to Santiago de Cuba, the country’s second city. It joins Cubana on the 7,120-kilometre route. Six Cuban airports have European flights Six airports in Cuba have flights to Europe this winter, down from eight […]
November 23, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis