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Ryanair terminates Swissport contract to do self handling Airlines,Handling

Swissport staff performing ramp handling to a Ryanair plane in Madrid airport / Flickr-ÁlvaroBa

After over seven years Ryanair terminates Swissport contract, both for passengers and ramp handling, in Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport. The reason behind this is that Aena finally accepted the Ryanair request to perform self ramp handling.Ramp handling is limited in the Spanish airportsThe ramp handling in the Spanish airports is not open and can be performed only by those agents who have a license. In fact, the second phase for the handling tender is currently under process. It is precisely this phase which will determine the new companies entitled to offer ramp handling services to airlines at Madrid airport.Apart from the ramp…

The TCO Regulation effective as from today Airlines,Regulations

EASA logo

The Commission Regulation (EU) 452/2014, so-called TCO (Third Country Operator) Regulation, has entered into force today.The TCO Regulation was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 6th May 2014 to be effective on 26th May.From now on and during the next six months, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is accepting from non-EU operators that intend to fly to EU territory, the formal applications for a TCO safety authorization that will be valid for the entire European Union. The TCO will be a precondition for obtaining the operating permit in each Member State, which will require a separate procedure.We will…

New satellite navigation system available for landings at the Spanish airports Airports

Málaga ATC tower during the works

Last week Aena announced a new satellite navigation system is available for landings at the Spanish airports through a press release which translation follows: The GBAS system is already available at one Spanish airport Aena is worldwide leader in starting new technologies and introduces operations based on satellite navigation 05 May 2014 As from today, Aena offer the possibility of landing at a Spanish airport using a modern satellite navigation system which suppose a significant step with regard to safety, cost savings and effectiveness for the air transport users. This is the satellite navigation system named GBAS (Ground Based Augmentation…

Flight Consulting interview by ATC supervisor FC Tools

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…

Evelop Airlines about to start operations Airlines,FC Tools,Startups

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…

Summarizing the ongoing Spanish startups Airlines,Startups

Evening flight. Square composition / Fotolia

Following with the ongoing Spanish startups this is what the latest information says:Islas AfortunadasAeronoticiarioSCQ informed on Oct 4 that they are expecting to start operations in December with a Gran Canaria-Tenerife flight. Afterwards they intend to go extending operations to other destinations such us Madrid, Barcelona and Santiago de Compostela at first, to go on with the African destinations or the European routes of Paris, London and Berlin. But their intentions are to go far beyond and aim to fly to Dubai or even Venezuela.The airline’s home base would be Gran Canaria and the fleet would consist of A319 and A321,…

Budget 2014 – Aena charges Charges,FC Tools,Regulations

The State General Budget Law was submitted to the Parliament on 30th September. The airport fees for year 2014 are included.We can confirm that, as we previously informed here, the airport fees will be increased the equivalent to the October’s CPI plus one percentage point up to a limit of 2.5%. This will be effective from 1st March 2014.It is also important to highlight that the PMR charge, currently fixed in 0.61 € per departure passenger, has been frozen for year 2014, as published in Eleconomista.es.Also, according to LaInformacion.es the approach and en-route charges are suppossed to remain frozen in 2014.On the other hand,…

New Air Security fee: F factor Charges,Regulations

As we had already anticipated here, the “Ley de Seguridad Aerea” has been finally modified by the Government and consequently the F Factor fee currently for 0.38€, has been replaced by a new one named “Tasa de Seguridad Aérea” of 0.579885€ per departing passenger, as it was published on the Official Gazette BOE on 5th July 2013.The new tax will be effective on 5th October 2013 and it won’t be charged to those passengers who had acquired their ticket in a date prior to the entry into force of the fee, regardless of the flight date.It is also confirmed that the…

Spanish operator Goodfly to start Murcia-Tenerife Airlines

The Spanish operator Goodfly: According to LaInformacion.com the “airline” Good Fly has announced they will start the route Murcia-Tenerife in September, to be operated twice a week. Being a Spanish operator, they are not an airline thought.Many Spanish media reffer to Goodfly as an airline, however it is not registered as a proper airline with the Spanish Civil Aviation Authority, either as “Category A” or “Category B” (the latter category includes airlines allowed to operate only aircrafts lighter than 10 tones and/or with less than 20 seats). That is why Goodfly is not displayed in our airline data base.Checking the reference from Wikipedia in…

F factor to increase by 50% Charges,FC Tools,Regulations

The Governments’ party has proposed in the Congress an amendment to the “Ley de Seguridad Aérea de 2003” in order to replace the current F Factor (0.38 €) associated to the Security Tax, by a new rate to support the activities of supervision and inspection services performed by AESA.This new rate will be of € 0.58 per departing passenger from any Spanish Airport, and it will be reduced by the 15% on flights from Canary Islands, Balearic Islands, Ceuta and Melilla to peninsular airports, and by 70% on Inter-Island flights.The entry into force of the new rate will occur within…