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Airlines request consensus before the Aena privatisation Regulations

TUI aircraft in Lanzarote airport / Fotolia

On October 21 the Government’s Consulting Council of Privatisation—CCP—published a report which confirmed the fact that they are now open to privatise Aena by 60% as we had anticipated.ActualidadAerospacial.com informed that the Council of Ministers shall approve a Royal Decree to authorise the privatisation process of Aena Aeropuertos. Aena Aeropuertos to be split in three partsThe first part would be a stable nucleus with a group of leading shareholders made up of 3 to 5 investors, to purchase shares by between 20% and 30% of the Capital Stock. Each investor would have an individual share between 5% and 10%. Amongst other requirements, these investors would…

Subsidies on valley days in the Canaries to remain in 2014 Charges,FC Tools

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…

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,…

Foreign tourism anticipates a record year Airports

Despite the bad start of the year and the poor expectations based on flight bookings, the beginning of the high season (July to September) anticipates a record year in hotel occupancy and income thanks to the foreign tourism.A key for this change to happen is the strength of our three big source markets (the United Kingdom, Germany and France) which bring 55% of the foreign tourism. The first data handled by entrepreneurs indicate unprecedented occupancy rates since the start of the financial crisis. The expected rates would be over 80% in August in five out of the 6 major touristic regions…

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

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…

Traffic evolution in the Spanish Airports Airports,FC Tools

Traffic evolution

Balearic Islands:Palma airport: As explained by Aena it has reached the highest amount of passengers for a month of Jun in its history: 2,956,506 people. This means an increase by 1.3% with regard to June 2012.As for January-June 2013, Palma has increased passengers by 0.8% reaching the amount of 9,284,504.It is worth mentioning the increase of traffic from the Russian Federation (26%), from Sweden (10.9%), from Norway (8.4%), from the UK (5.9%) and from Germany (8.3%).Ibiza airport: Aena informed that has also reached historic figures for the month of June, with 852,031 people. This supposes an increase by 6.8% against June 2012.January-June 2013 confirm an increase…

Clarification on the airport fees in the Canaries Charges,Regulations

Please see below our translation from the press release published by Aena yesterday to clarify some doubts on the airport fees in the Canaries: Due to the amount of confusing information published in the media, which has led in some cases to wrong interpretations, Aena would like to clarify the following: The bonus applied to the passengers connecting flights affects to all the Spanish airports, including the Canary ones. This bonus will be increased gradually from the current 20%, becoming 30% in 2014, 35% in 2015 and 40% in 2016 and following.  This bonus has nothing to do with the…

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

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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…

Islas Afortunadas Air: New airline based in the Canary Islands Startups

In continuation with the new projects for the Canary Islands that we had mentioned in an earlier post, different Spanish media announced last week that Islas Afortunadas Air will start operations in October this year.Islas Afortunadas Air would be a project different from Aerocanarias although both web sites are under construction at the moment.Islas Afortunadas Air would start operations in October this year with 10 BAe146 and 2 A320 connecting their home base in Gran Canaria with every island in the Canaries as well as with Madrid, Barcelona, Galicia, Morocco and Mauritania.To start with, the company will hire about 450 people but they aim for a staff of 1,100 employees…

Norwegian to open a base at Tenerife which will connect the island with 16 EU destinations Airlines,Airports

The airline Norwegian is opening a base at Tenerife which will connect the island with 16 EU destinations. According to Mr. Carlos Alonso, the Vice-president for the Council of Tenerife, the economic impact of this new base will be 28.9 million only in its first year of operation.Carlos Alonso explained that Tenerife has traditionally been connected with the Nordic market through charter flights and only during the winter, so this is the first time that the island will have schedule flights to this destination.Carlos Alonso has reminded that Tenerife leads the British, German and peninsular markets, so with this new base we…