The number of passengers travelling Alicante-Elche Airport grew by 9.7% to over 1.3 million people in April, coinciding with the Easter holidays, while the regional´s capital, Valencia Airport registered an increase of 12.9%, with 752,055 passengers. During the first 4 months of the year, 3.9 million passengers travelled through Alicante airport compared to 2.4 million at the Valencia hub. In …

A total of 5,544 aircraft movements, with 882,347 seats, saw the busiest Monday of the year in the Spanish airport network. Coinciding with the early August weekend when many inland tourists return home, to be replaced by those who are taking the later weeks of holidays coming to the coast, the airport traffic proved projections […]

As local airports continue to make headlines and as just about everyone in the area, apart from Murcia's politicians, question the viability and logic of building an airport within an hour's drive of Alicante, the future of Corvera International is bei...

The National Union of Air Traffic Controllers called a 4 day strike last week which will take place on 8, 10, 12 and 14 June across the whole of Spain, affecting at the very least, 800 flights carrying in excess of 30,000 passengers in Alicante alone. ...

Spanish air traffic controllers have announced a series of walkouts in June in a dispute over penalties the airport authority Aena imposed during the strike in 2010. A union spokesperson has said that the controllers will strike for two hours each morning and afternoon on the dates of the 8th, 10th, 12th and 14th of June.

Ana Pastor, the Minister of Development, said last week that agreement has now been reached with operator AENA for the closure of San Javier Airport.

She said that the operator had accepted the draft submitted to them by the Autonomous Community outlining the stepts that will effect closure of the popular airport.

However she also stated that "It still depends on legal services, but for my part, everything is OK." The statement was made during the Minister's visit to Cartagena where she was meeting with City officials to discuss the progress of the AVE High Speed Train.

She said that the agreement provides for a period of six months between the opening of Corvera Airport and the closure of San Javier, as well as agreement to, and payment of, the compensation to Aena for the investments they have made in San Javier.

On the subject of the AVE the Minister said that it would arrive in Cartagena toward the end of next year, emphasizing that there is still a great deal of work to be carried out before the high speed network can connect the city with Madrid.

The new network will shorten the route between Cartagena and the capital by half hour, with a maximum travel time of 3.05 hours. It will also allow connection to the Mediterranean Corridor.

Spain is the second most advanced country in the world and the first in Europe in High Speed and it has the most modern and technologically advanced fleet of trains on the continent.

Spanish airport authority Aena are investigating numerous leaks in the roof of the four year old, 267 million euro terminal building at Alicante-Elche airport.

The Two paragon's of Spain's transport system, the AENA National Airport Authority and AVE High Speed Train Network are both badly underachieving according to recent reports. Only 14 of Spain's 48 AENA run airports are currently turning in a profit w...

By Jorge Mascot The Airports Council International awarded San Javier airport a prize as the best European airport with fewer than 2 million passengers per year. The information was published in LaVerdad, where they interviewed the Murcia-San Javier a...

Spanish airport authority Aena is in the last stages of being listed as a public company, with the first appearance on the stock exchange expected on Wednesday. The final draft of almost 4 million shares were published on Monday, of which a small percentage were reserved for staff, with the minimum price set at 58 […]

Spanish airport authority AENA has stated that they will not close down some of their least profitable airports in Spain, despite the demands of the European Union. Auditors from the EU reported that there are nine airports which should be closed dow...

The Minister of Development, Public Works and Planning in the region of Murcia, Francisco Bernabé, has this week stated that “if all goes well” and that the problems relating to the competition award and compensation are resolved by...