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 […]
Tag: Spanish Airports and Air Navigation
Spain loses more than 200 million passengers in 2020 due to the pandemic
The air sector continues in free fall and the unprecedented fall in traffic is confirmed in 2020. The airports in the Aena network closed the year with just over 76 million passengers, compared to the 275.2 million who passed through them throughout 2019. That year, traffic had grown by 4.4% compared to the previous one. […]
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, […]
The closure of the airspace is paid with fines to 131 controllers and 1,000 euros of compensation for each passenger
A Madrid court has sentenced 131 air traffic controllers at Madrid-Barajas and Torrejón airports for a crime of abandoning public service. The sentence was handed down within the macro-reason followed by the closure of the airspace on the bridge in December 2010, accompanied by the first declaration of the state of alarm in Spain. The […]