Costa Tropical Properties » Granada Airport http://www.costatropicalproperties.com Property Sales, Rentals & Management in Costa Tropical, Spain Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:14:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Ryanair New Route From Granada Airport http://www.costatropicalproperties.com/2009/05/ryanair-new-route-from-granada/ http://www.costatropicalproperties.com/2009/05/ryanair-new-route-from-granada/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 09:35:04 +0000 Costa Tropical Properties http://www.costatropicalproperties.com/?p=153 The low-cost airline Ryanair will open this July 15th a new route between Madrid and Granada, and increase from five to seven weekly flights to London. The initiative is the result of negotiations between Ryanair, the Provincial Council and the Chamber of Commerce of Granada following the announcement of the company to reduce from three to two flights per week.

The new route between Madrid and Granada, which will have four flights a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.  With this new route Ryanair aims to increase the number to 60,000 passengers annually transported from the Airport Federico García Lorca Granada-Jaen, since it now offers five international destinations (Milan, London, East Midlands, Liverpool and Bologna) and a domestic in flight service to Gerona.

For this May holiday weekend, the Granada province has recorded a 86 per cent of average hotel occupancy, according to the sector. Zones, like the Alpujarra Valley provides a 85% occupancy, the Altiplano region of 70%, the Costa Tropical to 90%, 85% in the capital of Granada, Guadix and El Marquesado reach 75%, and in Sierra Nevada is expected to reach 90% of hotel beds filled. The forecasts therefore is very promising.

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All these facilities will be completed by year-end 2012 and will enable the airport to accommodate up to 16 takeoff and landing operations at any time, compared to the current eight. The new terminal will be able to absorb up to 2,000 passengers an hour, between departure and arrival cities or without delays, compared to thousands today.
The director of the airfield granadino-jinenense Welcome Rico, pointed out to the media on the 22/3/2009 there will be a budget of 17 million euros to cover the new project.

in addition there will have to be a new power plant which will cost around 12.2 million euros. “All these works will provide a very significant increase in our capacity,” said Rico, who also stressed that the airport is in a continuous process of improvement.

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