Thousands of travelers have found serious complications in airports throughout Western Europe during the day on Sunday, in many cases they were about to begin their Easter holidays. The reason: delays and flight cancellations caused by the controllers’ strike in France which will last for 48 hours, according to the announcement made by the unions last Friday. Only at Valencia airport on Sunday there were a dozen annulments, both arrival and departure, which has increased at Alicante Airport with more…

The Irish airline Ryanair launched last October 16 its schedule for 2016´s high season, which begins next April. Ryanair will offer five new routes: Copenhagen, Rome, Newcastle, Hamburg and Berlin, with which will add a total of 48 destinations in the season from April to November. The company expects to reach 3.5 million passengers per year with 264 weekly flights that will offer from the Alicante-Elche Airport, which means a growth of the 15%, demonstrating the great weight of Alicante…

Vueling will expand its offer a 23% more at Alicante Airport for the next season starting in October, as announced the IAG group airline.  Three new routes will operate at Alicante this winter, Algiers, Santiago and Seville, from these, Santiago and Seville are new routes and Algiers was already operating this summer and it will be mantenied thanks to its good numbers this last season.  The company confirmed the start of the routes to Santiago and Seville from October 26,…

  These new connections confirm the increase of domestic traffic that is occurring these last few months, 15% more than last year counting from the beginning of the year until May. With these data, the airlines have started to invest in the domestic market and Alicante will have direct connections with 12 Spanish cities, the new Leon, Burgos, Santander, Oviedo and Menorca and the seven that already had to Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Bilbao, Palma, Tenerife, Las Palmas and Santiago de Compostela.…

Alicante court has rejected the demand of a couple who claimed reimbursement for flight that had to cancel. In its judgment, the judge ruled that a company “low cost” can not be required to reimburse tickets since on its initial price there is a substantial reduction that excludes them from the application and the general law for these situations. The plaintiffs claimed to Easyjet return of 351 € of a flight after cancelling their trip to London. The couple bought…

As announced on the corporation website http://corporate.ryanair.com/news/news/150305-ryanair-to-treble-berlin-operation-with-new-base-no-73/?market=en Ryanair is going to stablish a new base at Berlin in order to increase the flight numbers in this airport, being Alicante one of the 16 new routes scheduled. This route will have 3 weekly flights. In addition to this, Ryanair also announced their intention of increase the number of flights for this next season of Winter 2015/16 (Alicante´s Airoport low season) with the inclusion of this new route and the increase of…