ALMERIA AIRPORT ACHIEVES TOP RATING
Following the ambitious expansion project completed late last December the new terminal in Almeria Airport has just completed its first six months of operation during which the overall effectiveness has been shown More...
Experts’ report concludes human error caused Spanair crash
The independent experts assigned by the judge investigating the crash of Spanair flight JK5022 on August 20, 2008, in which 154 people were killed, have concluded that human error on the part of mechanics was the More...
Easyjet and Ryanair for Cameron
David and Samantha Cameron have used the budget airline easyJet to return from their mini-break to Spain. The Prime Minister and his wife arrived back in the UK at Luton Airport at lunchtime on Saturday More...
Holiday strikes loom for Spanish over Aena dispute
Travellers heading to Spain for Easter face chaos after the country’s main trade unions announced 22 days of planned strikes. They including four during Easter week and other walkouts have been called for More...
Monarch is increasing flights to Spain, Portugal and Cyprus
Airline Monarch is increasing its programme of flights to Spain, Portugal and Cyprus in April due to phenomenal demand from its customers. In addition, the airline is bringing forward to April the launch of its More...
Emirates offers daily flights between Spain and Seychelles
Emirates announced a frequencies increase in its daily flights between Dubai and Seychelles up to 10 weekly flights from March 28, 2011 on. This means that on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, the airline will operate More...
Spanish airport authority says controllers return to work
Spanish air traffic controllers are beginning to return to work following a wildcat strike, an airports authority spokesman said. “The controllers are returning to work and nearly half of the airspace sectors More...
Spain under state of alert over air strike chaos
The Spanish government has declared a state of alert after a strike by air traffic controllers grounded flights, stranding thousands of travellers. The measure will allow widldcat strikers to be charged with a More...
Spain’s military takes over air traffic control to reopen airspace
Spain´s military has taken over the country´s air traffic control after civilian traffic controllers called in sick en masse. The move – authorised by the government – comes after several airports More...
Spain Closes Nearly All Airports
Spain´s airport authority tonight closed airspace throughout most of the country after a long-running dispute with air traffic controllers boiled over, stranding thousands of travelers on the eve of a long weekend More...
Man wanted over armed robbers arrested at airport on Costa del Sol
A fugitive wanted in connection with a series of high-value armed robberies has been arrested in Spain. Lee Tansey, 32, from Salford, was about to board a plane at Malaga Airport earlier this week when he was stopped More...
AENA says covert strike to blame for plane delays
Valencia and Alicante airports are reporting an average delay of about 40 minutes in their operations, due to the absence of four air traffic controllers, of the eleven scheduled to work yesterday and today, two More...
Kazakh man severs penis
A Kazakh man cut off his penis at Madrid´s Barajas airport to avoid being extradited home and was taken to hospital in a serious condition, Spanish media reported. The 52-year-old man had finished serving a five-year More...
Benidorm Blogging
If you were at Alicante airport this weekend, you may have been lucky to have bumped into a famous face or two. In fact, you may have had some well known people on your flight. Why? Because this weekend the cast More...
New strike threat at UK airports
Workers at six UK airports are being balloted for strike action by the Unite union. Unite is to ballot more than 6,000 members based at BAA airports, including Heathrow, in a dispute over pay. It has accused BAA More...
British Airways says Spain will win in merger
Spain to be ultimate winner of Government scrapping of Heathrow expansion. British Airways Plc may use Madrid as its seat of growth in the future. In the eyes of Willie Walsh, the British Airways chief executive, More...
INCREASE IN ALICANTE AIR TRAFFIC
With the summer now getting into full swing Alicante’s El Altet airport is expecting to consolidate it’s recovery with it’s passenger traffic increasing by 7% over the 2009 figures between now and next Thursday More...
Spain Launches Investigation Into Ryanair Jet Incident
An incident involving a Ryanair jet at Valencia airport in Spain last month is being investigated by the Spanish Civil Aviation Accident and Incident Investigation Commission although the airline has described More...
Madrid airport bombers given 1,000-year sentences
Spain´s National Court has convicted three members of the Basque separatist group ETA of murder, attempted murder and participation in a terror attack and sentenced them to 1,040 years in jail each. They were More...
Latest statement on the volcanic ash situation
The CAA’s no-fly zone required by the high density volcanic ash cloud will not affect London airports for the period 1300-1900 (local time) today. The no-fly zone for this period has moved east to a line stretching More...
