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Iberia Express will be the new low-budget airline in Spain
Monday, 10 October 2011 10:57

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International Airlines Group (IAG), which was formed by the merger of the Spanish airline Iberia and British airline British Airways, created a new low-budget airline Iberia Express. The main objective of the new low-cost air carrier Iberia Express - is to offer the best prices for flights on short and medium length of flights, following from Madrid, Spain. In early 2012, when Iberia Express will begin its work, flight passengers will be carried out on four Airbus A320, but by the end of 2012, the number of aircraft will be increased at least threefold.

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Flight La Palma - Barcelona will be resumed from June 21
Flight La Palma - Barcelona will be resumed on June 21 after a 3-year hiatus. Flight will be operated by the airline Vueling on Saturdays. In July and August, perhaps the number of flights will increase to 2 per week (second flight will take place on Tuesday) .. From Barcelona plane will take off at 14:30 local time, and the return flight from the airport Maso (Aeropuerto de Mazo) on La Palme - 17:40.

Flight connecting Barcelona and the island of La Palma, will allow tourists to spend their vacation even richer and more interesting, easier to plan your trip. Representatives of the tourism industry of La Palma hope that this flight will be operated not only in summer but all year round, which will give the opportunity to visit the island a greater number of tourists.

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In Salamanca, a new kind of message the airport of Madrid
Salamanca was the first city where a new class of joint Iberia airline tickets and bus company Avanza. It allows to combine in a single ticket on the bus trip from Salamanca to the terminal T4 Madrid Barajas Airport and thus provides a connection to international flights Iberia. The appearance of the ticket Salamanca provide access to new markets.

Iberia representatives assured that "Bus & Fly - is the most advanced combination product in Europe in the field of bus and air links, as you can buy it as through global reservation systems, works with all the tourism sector, and through the site www.iberia.com" . To make it easier to buy, Salamanca bus station was assigned the code IATA (SAI), similar to those that have airports.

Iberia and Grupo Avanza amounted schedule so as to ensure there is enough time to check in for a flight on departure or on arrival at the baggage claim, and the passage and implementation of control transplant bus.

"Expansion Bus & Fly will also be another step towards the use of different modes of transport at the airport of Barajas, which will allow more efficient use of infrastructure and improve service to Salamanca" - representatives of the company.

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At the airport of Madrid implement "Plan 100"
Ministry of Development of Spain developed and launched by a project to improve the service provided to passengers at the airport Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas. The plan provides about a hundred different measures and in accordance with this Plan Barajas was called 100.

Among the new products introduced into the action on all four terminals of air gates of the capital of Spain, drew particular attention to himself mounted system "security filters", to dramatically reduce the queue of passengers on preflight inspection.

A lot of personalized attention will be given to persons with disabilities; expected to expand the children's play area, as well as commercial, which will increase the number of outlets. In the course of work on the implementation of the plan, the airport is going to change the floor covering: in many places will be laid tile, which helps correct "navigation" of customers inside the building - on the floor arrows appear and direction indicator to specific destinations.

Soon appear in Barajas and Medical Center, stressed, speaking at a press conference, the head of the title of the Ministry Ana Pastor.

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Madrid Airport will be more convenient
Ministry of Development of Spain reported the launch of Plan Barajas 100 at the airport "Barajas them. Adolfo Suarez, "which includes 100 measures to improve the quality of customer service and the experience of visiting the capital of passengers transport hub.

As news agencies in the country, the implementation of his association began with older terminals into a single complex T123. He will become the new hub of Air Europa and its partners in the alliance Sky Team, which will reduce the time displacement between the halls to a maximum of 15 minutes.

Among other measures included in the strategic plan included a decrease in time to complete the inspection, the appearance of the individual corridors and personalized services for people with disabilities, children's areas and the expansion of the number of commercial space, updating and improvement of gender indicators.

Development Minister Ana Pastor said that communication between nodes companies Iberia and Air Europa, based in Madrid, will allow the airport to strengthen its position as a gateway to Latin America.

All these measures were launched last week, will transform the first Barajas airport in the country, where the terminals are connected by a corridor to the security control points, rather than a bus. This initiative will reduce the travel time between them. In addition, the terminal T3 will entrance of the subway. The airport is also equipped with 2 parking Parking for passengers who fail luggage.

In a new initiative at the airport will open a medical center, a tender for the provision of services which will be launched soon.

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Flight La Palma - Barcelona will be resumed from June 21
Flight La Palma - Barcelona will be resumed on June 21 after a 3-year hiatus. Flight will be operated by the airline Vueling on Saturdays. In July and August, perhaps the number of flights will increase to 2 per week (second flight will take place on Tuesday) .. From Barcelona plane will take off at 14:30 local time, and the return flight from the airport Maso (Aeropuerto de Mazo) on La Palme - 17:40.

Flight connecting Barcelona and the island of La Palma, will allow tourists to spend their vacation even richer and more interesting, easier to plan your trip. Representatives of the tourism industry of La Palma hope that this flight will be operated not only in summer but all year round, which will give the opportunity to visit the island a greater number of tourists.

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In Salamanca, a new kind of message the airport of Madrid
Salamanca was the first city where a new class of joint Iberia airline tickets and bus company Avanza. It allows to combine in a single ticket on the bus trip from Salamanca to the terminal T4 Madrid Barajas Airport and thus provides a connection to international flights Iberia. The appearance of the ticket Salamanca provide access to new markets.

Iberia representatives assured that "Bus & Fly - is the most advanced combination product in Europe in the field of bus and air links, as you can buy it as through global reservation systems, works with all the tourism sector, and through the site www.iberia.com" . To make it easier to buy, Salamanca bus station was assigned the code IATA (SAI), similar to those that have airports.

Iberia and Grupo Avanza amounted schedule so as to ensure there is enough time to check in for a flight on departure or on arrival at the baggage claim, and the passage and implementation of control transplant bus.

"Expansion Bus & Fly will also be another step towards the use of different modes of transport at the airport of Barajas, which will allow more efficient use of infrastructure and improve service to Salamanca" - representatives of the company.

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Get to Spain from St. Petersburg will become easier and cheaper

New Finnish airline Snowbird Airlines launches flights from Lappeenranta airport near the Russian border

St. Petersburg has long considered its international airport of Lappeenranta Finland. There are two reasons - the proximity to the border, and economical prices that offer air carriers. The most popular flights in Milan and Barcelona.

At the end of the year in Lappeenranta came another carrier - the Finnish company Snowbird. It was registered in January 2013. Many top managers and professionals have previously worked in Finnair.

«Snowbird mainly caters for tour operators and travel agencies - said Marja Aalto, CEO - but also offers its services to individual travelers. The main focus of the sales are B2B, and cooperation with travel agencies is regarded as the joint development of the competitiveness of the tourism market in Europe.

The nearby Russian market is very important for us, and the airport of Lappeenranta in this sense is also strategically important for work with Russian representatives of tourist business. "

The first two years will be operated three aircraft. The plans for the next 10 years to increase its fleet of aircraft and 5-10 expansion of the route network to the Far East and America.

This winter, plan to perform flights from Helsinki to Malaga, and from January 2 on Fridays begin flights from Lappeenranta in Alicante, as well as in the Finnish city of Oulu in western Finland. There are charter flights from provincial cities in Finland to Seville, Madrid, Turin, Milan.

"Airline services can benefit both Finnish and Russian passengers - said Marya Aalto. - Finnish airline industry needs more services for passengers. Especially in Lapland and the regions where tourism is the main economic activity.

New flights - an answer to the needs of developing the tourism industry in these regions.

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New Vueling routes in 2015

Vueling Airlines unveiled a preliminary list of new routes for the summer of 2015 until the innovations affect only the geography of flights in Western Europe. There will be new flights to the UK (Belfast and Manchester), Ireland (Dublin), Switzerland, Italy and Holland. Italy will be the second major interchange hub Vueling in Western Europe outside of Barcelona (after Brussels). Furthermore, additional destinations may appear in French. As for Russia, the question of the expansion card operations is studied.

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At the airport of Madrid intensified "luggage mafia"

Workers and passengers Madrid airport "Barajas" faced with a problem: rental service for luggage trolleys was illegally monopolized by groups of individuals who often provoke serious hassle.

According to the publication Voz Populi with reference to the union CSIF-Aena, a similar situation happened at a time when the management plan Barajas Airport has launched 100, designed to improve the quality of service. It included a number of measures, including the introduction of fees in the amount of 1 euro for the use of carts.

First reported on its introduction in March 2013. This practice was planned to be not only in the capital, but also in Barcelona, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca, Alicante and on the islands of Gran Canaria and Tenerife, but in the end it was implemented only in Madrid. According to the operator Aena, fees truck saves 3.2 million euros, thereby reducing the cost of their service and maintenance with 3.7 million and 500 thousand. Euro per year.

However, after only a few months of service was monopolized by this luggage mafia, whose appearance provoked numerous conflicts with employees hired to provide services. "This is not isolated cases, but the whole business. Airport staff talk about threats and stressful situations that arise on a daily basis," - said the representative trade union CSIF.

Typically, fraudsters take out tokens for resale passengers at a higher price, either directly obsessive offer their "rent" a truck, also at the overvalued rate. "Between them there are conflicts, they argue because of the location and sometimes released sebaceous comments about women, and they can not say anything or do because they'll gather in groups and start screaming and threatening," - noted in the union.

In addition, this situation has given rise to the problem of excessive load trucks passengers who do not want to pay more than € 1 and placed on each of them too much luggage. As a result, there are congestion on the escalators, and sometimes even the passengers are injured.

To the situation began to complain, even the police. In June, they reported this problem the police leadership, noting that their function is not to solve the problems that "luggage mafia" poses for a private company.

"The most outrageous part is that from 5000 tokens for trucks that have been put into operation at the beginning, at the airport with only 10%, and the remaining 4,500 are used on the black market among employees, taxi drivers and illegal" valet parking "or all gone. Maybe something similar in other European airports? It harms the image of the city. also, why passengers are paying for this service only in Madrid? ", asks a spokesman for CSIF.
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