The air sector Coordination is already being carried out to implement a kind of health travel passport that allows mobility across borders, with the same criteria for all. It is about creating a common system that would facilitate, for example, that a person who has been vaccinated against Covid does not have to take any […]
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The airline sector: “A recovery in Easter is difficult. It will be more towards summer”
Before the pandemic broke out, Javier Gándara had his office in the seat x of the flight x of Easyjet that was his turn that day. There were several per week. Today his office is a Zoom screen and he misses all those flights that he missed before. He is the general director in Spain […]
Barajas will not operate normally until tonight and Aena defends that “all available means” have been used
One week after the storm Filomena forced the closure of the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport, This still does not work with total normality, although it already works at 90%. The aerodrome will not accept arrivals normally until eleven o’clock this Friday, as there is still a lot of snow and ice, according to Eurocontrol, an […]
The United Kingdom bans flights from Portugal and 14 South American countries
The Government of the United Kingdom announced this Thursday the ban on flights from Portugal and fourteen South American countries to try to prevent the spread of a new variant of the coronavirus detected in Brazil. The British Minister of Transport, Grant Shapps, reported that arrivals will be suspended from this morning from Argentina, Brazil, […]
The Government insists that “Iberia will be able to continue flying” within the EU despite Brexit
Iberia you will be able to continue flying as an airline in European airspace following the UK’s departure from the EU. This was reiterated today by the Secretary of State for Commerce, Xiana MÃndez, after evaluating the trade agreement agreed between this country and the European Union. This was one of the most worrying issues […]
The Generalitat reinvents its airports to save them from the economic crisis
Without resigning itself to seeing how all Catalan airports are dangerously close to zero activity due to the effects of the coronavirus on global and regional air traffic, the Generalitat has promoted a series of measures to provide a second life to the airport facilities that it currently manages. The first one, the Lleida-Alguaire airport, […]
Spain also suspends its flights and the United Kingdom is isolated due to the new strain of coronavirus
At the end of last January, when the coronavirus was spreading across China but had not yet reached Europe, British Airways decided to suspend all its flights with the Asian country. It was the first airline to take this measure, which was to last until March. By then the virus had already roamed Europe, and […]
Ban on flights to the United Kingdom: third blow to the air sector in the middle of Christmas campaign
The decision of several countries to ban flights to the United Kingdom supposes the third great blow to the tourism sector, with the airlines, again, in the front line. The coup comes in the middle of the Christmas season, which is usually the busiest time after the summer, and with the airlines already in a […]
This is how the airline sector prepares for its greatest logistical challenge: the transfer of vaccines
The air sector, one of the sectors that is suffering the most from the impact of the pandemic due to restrictions on mobility, is preparing for the transfer of vaccines for the coronavirus that are being finalized by the different laboratories: Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca. Their distribution “in the time to be determined” will be […]
T2 at El Prat airport is closed again due to lack of flights
The passenger operation of the airport of Barcelona concentrates again from this week on the terminal T1, just as it happened during the alarm state. The reason is the same: the lack of air traffic in facilities that, far from managing between 700 and 800 daily flights as they were used to at this time […]