Alicante-Elche Airport closes the month of may with an increase of a 4,1% comparing with 2014´s may, as a result of its best historic register on the 5th month of the year. More than a million of passenger came through the Alicante Airport facilities at the more than 7000 flights operated last month, a 3% more than 2014´s may. This big increase has been posible thanks to the reactivation of the internal tourism, as the number of spanish passengers increased…

Taxi drivers Elche claim for a stronger control to eliminate the intrusion that is taking place at Alicante Airport, one year after the imposition of the maximum number of rides to taxi drivers of other places. This quota allows entry only up to 6 times a month to other villages taxis, but the group of Elche taxi drivers complains that “a group of taxi drivers in Torrevieja, Cartagena and Murcia are clearly breaking out the rule, and they are always the…

The USCA air traffic controllers union has convened four days of partial strikes on the 8, 10, 12 and 14 of June as a rejection of the decision of ENAIRE, the spanish aerial navigation manager, to punish 61 air traffic controllers for the events in December 2010, that resulted in the closure of airspace throughout Spain. The USCA union has called for a strike from 10 to 12 hrs. and from 18 to 20 hrs. in those days, as agreed…

As announced on the company´s website, the AENA´s board has approved the beginning of the contest to provide free WiFi, unlimited and with an increase of 4 times the current speed in the 46 airports of its network. This contest will run for two years and once the company will be assigned, they should start to provide the service within 2 months. This service will coexist with the existing Premium service, which will entail an improvement in the speed and…

  Alicante Airport finishes this April with an historical number. 924.741 passengers have used Alicante Airport this month, this means a rise of 1.9% over last year´s April, that also was an historical high registration. There has been a significantly increase of spanish passengers rising a dramatically 17.7% over the same last year´s month, while the number of european passengers increased 0.1% International traffic continues in its majority coming from the United Kingdom, followed by Germany, Norway, Holland, Belgium and…