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Flight Consulting interview by ATC supervisor Standard

Flight Conssulting Interview in ATC Magazine

We are proud to share the Flight Consulting interview by Mr. Cayetano de Martí – ATC supervisor from the Canary Island ACC – for USCA Magazine. Please find below our free translation:   The aviation Industry is not just aircrafts and airlines. There are hundreds of activities around. Without them there would not be air transport. This is the case of Flight Consulting, a small Spanish company operating since more than twenty years ago which provides advice about all the problems behind each operation.   We think it is dramatic that a flight has to be cancelled because there is no way…

The Canary Islands increase offer to the UK and Germany respectively by over 34% Standard

Photo: Condor aircraft landing at Lanzarote airport

One more season starts and, as usual, we have updated our data base with fresh details, both for the just finished season – winter 2013 – and for the new season which now starts – summer 2014 – for you to be able to use our Airport Statistics web tool. We have also spent some time using this tool and, going through the Canary Islands in particular, reached some conclusions which may be of your interest: The Canary Islands increase offer to their main destinations. Lanzarote The number of seats offered by the airlines from Lanzarote airport increased by 22% in…

Foreign airlines will continue to grow in Málaga Standard

Málaga Airport Terminal - © Leoncio J / Flickr

Official data from Aena says eight out of the first ten operators in Málaga airport are not Spanish airlines. Malagahoy.es made contact with the management of four foreign airlines. They highlight the importance of Málaga for their companies although they showed their concern about the future, considering the doubts on the Aena’s privatisation process and the airport prices that will have to be paid in the medium and long term. This is a key to analyse the returns and decide the investments. Ryanair The leading company in Málaga is Ryanair. Last year they served nearly three million passengers, about double its closest competitor. This means…

The new Aena Charges are already in force Standard

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The new Aena charges: On March, 1 the Spanish Official Gazette (BOE) published the Law 1/2014. Through this law, the expected changes in the Aena charges are made official and have therefore immediate effect.As a consequence of this law, all fees charged by Aena since March 1 will be updated as previously explained in this summary.The Aena charges have been updated in our Flight Cost Calculator accordingly for your easy check and understanding. If you have any doubt just leave us a message.Due to the fact that Aena stopped collecting the approach charge, this fee does not appear in our FC Calculator any longer.On the other…

New meteorological service charge and other amendments in the Aena fees Standard

Landing and TakeOff - meteorological service charge / Fotolia

The Government confirmed the final CPI for October at -0.1 and hence, the airport charges will increase by 0.9% with effect from 1 March 2014 as explained previously in this blog.While we are waiting for further detail on the subsidies that we had anticipated, the following changes have been introduced with regard to the airport charges in the Spanish airports. They are all included in the text sent by the Congress of Deputies to the Senate. This text will have to be confirmed and published in the Spanish Official Gazette (BOE).Meteorological servicesAirlines shall pay a meteorological service charge. This will be applicable to every flight which,…

Summer 2014 available through our Airport Stats Standard

Aiirport Statistics by Flight Consulting-Summer 2014-Summer 2013-Winter 2013-Winter 2014

The Summer 2014 has already started slot wise. If you want to check the new operators, who increased or decreased traffic, who opened new routes or closed some others, please visit our Customized Airport Statistics where we have just uploaded data on the Summer 2014 flights scheduled in all the Spanish airports. Should you are interested in using this tool you can create your account through this form. The Flight Consulting airport statistics are a really powerful and sophisticated tool which is capable of producing reports, as accurate as you wish, to analyse the Spanish airport data. Airlines operating, destinations where they operate, traffic volume of an airline to a…

Evelop Airlines about to start operations Standard

Orbest Orizonia Airlines Airbus A320

“Out of the 867,765 passengers lost when Iberworld ceased operations, only 201,127 have been kept by Orbest” we had said in our post IAG lost 1.6 million passengers. Ryanair 2.3 million. How many of them were lost because of the lack of a Spanish AOC? The availability Iberworld had offered during the summer 2012 between Madrid and Cancun or Punta Cana was 64% of their overall capacity. According to the current regulation, unless an exceptional permit is obtained, only a Spanish airline can fly to different countries in the Caribbean.To understand how important the routes with the Caribbean are in Madrid, it is enough to know that over 550,000…

Final data on Summer 2013 for the Airport Stats Standard

Aiirport Statistics by Flight Consulting-Summer 2014-Summer 2013-Winter 2013-Winter 2014

Summer 2013: Once the summer 2013 season is over we have collected the up-to-date information of every airport for that period and it is all available at our customized airport statistic online tool.For those who have an upgraded account you can get the information you wish at any time. If you find any difficulty please do not hesitate and let us know.Also, be informed that we have fixed a bug there was when a query showed one day of the week only. In these cases, an insignificant amount of flights for other days was added to the report too.New users can…

0.9% Increase in 2014 for airport charges Standard

0.9% increase in 2014 The advanced Spanish Cost Price Index (CPI) for October has been published by the National Institute of Statistics (INE). “The estimated inflation of the CPI in October 2013 is -0.1%”.Consequently, considering what we had explained in our post Budget 2014 – Aena charges, an overall 0.9% increase (CPI + 1%) is to be applied to the airport fees at all the Spanish airports.For information on the expected increases for 2015 and beyond, you can read our post AENA clarifies Airport fee increases for the next five yearsThis 0.9% increase shall be effective on 1 March 2014.For any kind of…

Subsidies on valley days in the Canaries to remain in 2014 Standard

The Minister of Fomento, Ana Pastor, informed yesterday, in continuation with the press release launched by Aena, that the airlines flying to/from the Canary Islands in the forthcoming winter season will increase the seat availability by 15%. In particular, the number of seats offered on international flights rises as high as 22%.For further information and analysis on the Spanish Airports, let us remind you that you can access our Airport Stat Tool at any moment.During her speech in the Senate she said in the Canary Islands “everything goes reasonably well” and the international traffic is growing. The islands will take benefit from the…