Iberia’s Europe-Latin America capacity now 20 per cent higher than pre-Covid – Business Traveller
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Iberia’s Europe-Latin America capacity now 20 per cent higher than pre-Covid – Business Traveller

Iberia continues to grow its Latin American network, and will offer a total of 5.3 million seats to and from the region in 2024. This figure is up 16 per cent on the 4.6 million in 2023, and more than 20 per cent up on pre-pandemic levels in 2019. The carrier will operate more than…

Passenger traffic “a hair’s breadth away from full recovery” – Business Traveller
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Passenger traffic “a hair’s breadth away from full recovery” – Business Traveller

ACI EUROPE has published its latest figures, showing an increase in passenger traffic across the European airport network of 8.5 per cent in April compared to the same month last year. Volumes were just 0.2 per cent down on pre-pandemic levels, or as ACI put it “a hair’s breadth away from full recovery”. In March…

Iberia launches first Avios-Only flights – Business Traveller
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Iberia launches first Avios-Only flights – Business Traveller

Iberia has followed sister carrier British Airways into the realms of Avios-Only flights. BA first launched the Avios-Only initiative last year, with initial routes from Gatwick to Sharm El Sheikh and Heathrow to Geneva. These were followed shortly after by Avios-Only flights to Las Palmas, Lanzarote, Tenerife and Nice, then Florence, Mallorca, Faro, Corfu and Ibiza,  Dubai,…

Aena’s Spanish airports set to welcome more than 300 million passengers in 2025 – Business Traveller
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Aena’s Spanish airports set to welcome more than 300 million passengers in 2025 – Business Traveller

Aena has upgraded its forecasts for passenger traffic across its Spanish airports, and now say it expects to break the 300 million annual mark in 2025. The operator welcomed 283 million passengers at its Spanish facilities last year, and is forecasting this to grow to 294 million in 2024, 300 million next year, and 310…

European air passenger traffic reached 95 per cent of pre-pandemic levels last year – Business Traveller
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European air passenger traffic reached 95 per cent of pre-pandemic levels last year – Business Traveller

ACI EUROPE has released its latest traffic data, showing European airports welcoming a total of 2.3 billion passengers last year. The figures means the continent’s air passenger traffic reached 94.6 per cent of pre-pandemic levels in 2023, driven by a 21 per cent increase in international passenger traffic compared to 2022. As previously reported London…

Accor opens ibis budget Madrid Aeropuerto – Business Traveller
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Accor opens ibis budget Madrid Aeropuerto – Business Traveller

Accor has opened its latest ibis property in the Spanish capital Madrid. The 159-room ibis budget Madrid Aeropuerto is located on the site of the former Iveco-Pegaso factory, around ten minutes south of Madrid–Barajas airport in the city’s San Blas-Canilejas district. According to Accor the hotel “is part of a project to implement a large…