Malaga Airport took care of over 100.000 passengers with reduced mobility in 2011, 3.79% more

Malaga airport attended a total of 103.109 travellers with reduced mobility last year, which means a 3.79 per cent more than in 2010. Ever since the Aena Airports introduced this service in their facilities on the 26th of July 2008, Malaga airport have assisted 385.837 passengers. Continue reading

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Almost 350 Spanair passengers affected at Malaga airport

spanairAround 350 passengers were affected last Saturday due to the cancellation of the four Spanair flights that were programmed at Malaga airport to travel to or from Barcelona. Continue reading

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Malaga airport on the verge of 4 million passengers on low cost airlines

The low cost airlines transported 36.1 million passengers around the Spanish airports during 2011, 12.5% more than the previous year, in comparison to the traditional companies that transported 27.3 million travellers, only 7.7% more, according to the figures provided yesterday by the Tourism Studies Institute, a branch of the Industrial, Tourism and Trade Ministry. Malaga airport registered 3.9 million passengers and a 6.6% increase, and is ranked as the third airport in Spain with the highest number of these type of passengers, after Palma de Mallorca (6.1 million passengers, 11%) and Barcelona (5.3 million, 36.2%). Continue reading

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Vueling: new operations from Malaga airport

Vueling Malaga airportThe low cost airline, based in Barcelona, has started to think about the Spring – Summer season, after the advertisement of the connections in the Balearic Islands, now the campaigns are promoting the new connections from the Malaga-Costa del Sol airport. The end of the winter is getting nearer, and these campaigns of Summer connections are the proof. Continue reading

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The mist causes diversions and delays at Malaga Airport

A dozen flights have been diverted and one cancelled due to poor visibility in the Malaga airport area

Although the weather in Malaga these past few days has been more like spring, rather than typical January temperatures, the mist yesterday was affecting the air traffic to and from Malaga. Continue reading

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The airline company Helitt add two new flights to Melilla

Helitt AirlinesMelilla Airport will be offering new connections to the airports in Malaga and Madrid as from the 1st of January 2012, and that will be operated by the Andalusian company Helitt Airlines, which is based in Malaga. The route between Melilla and Madrid has a new arrival flight available (Madrid-Melilla) on Fridays and another departure flight (Melilla-Madrid) on Sundays Continue reading

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Malaga, third airport in Spain for cheap flights

Cheap flightsMalaga becomes the third most important airport in Spain when it comes to low cost airlines, after Palma de Mallorca and Barcelona. Although November hasn’t been a good month, with a fall of almost 8% of low cost passenger movement at Malaga airport, this terminal maintains a positive balance of over seven points in travellers on cheap flights during the eleven months of the year. The figures were provided yesterday by the Industry, Tourism and Trade Ministry in a monthly report produced by the Institute of Tourism Studies. Continue reading

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Easyjet try out the seat assignments on their flights

Easyjet has announced the start of the trials for the assignment of seats on selected routes during the Spring of 2012, according to the company, who also announced the signing of a new agreement with Amadeus. Currently, Easyjet operate with a system in which the passengers choose their seats when boarding, without previous booking, only giving first choice to those who have previously purchased the ‘Speedy Boarding’ service. Continue reading

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The Andalusian company Helitt has made its debut with an opening flight from Malaga to Melilla

A flight from Malaga to Melilla yesterday christened Helitt, a company based in Malaga that was created and designed to reinvent ‘low cost flights’. The airplane, an ATR72, departed Malaga airport at 12:00pm and arrived in Melilla at 12:40pm. The return flight back to Malaga departed at 5:35pm. Continue reading

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Helitt Airlines commence their operations tomorrow with the opening flight between Malaga and Melilla

Helit Malaga airportHelitt Airlines will be starting their activity this Monday with the opening flight that will link Malaga with Melilla and that will mean the christening of this Malaga airport based company, whose main aim is to reinvent the low cost flights. Continue reading

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