SSP Group, a leading operator of food and beverage outlets in travel locations worldwide, has won contracts to operate 11 new bars and restaurants across the AENA network. SSP will be bringing international favourite, Yo! Sushi, to Spain for the first time with the opening of a unit in Josep Tarr...

Ryanair today (07 Mar) announced a new route from Newcastle to Barcelona, which will operate twice weekly from April as part of its Summer ’23 schedule. Newcastle citizens/visitors can now book a well-deserved Summer break enjoying Ryanair’s low fares to the widest choice of destinations, inc...

Summarizing the key statistics and events of 2022, the Latvian airline airBaltic announces that the previous year has continued the company’s purposeful growth, also contributing to a return or even exceeding various pre-pandemic results. The following report overlooks data and information (suc...

Ryanair, Europe’s No 1 airline, today (15 Nov) added over 5,000 extra seats for football fans travelling to Champions League & Europa League matches across Europe next Spring. To support pent up demand, Ryanair has added extra seats for fans in the UK, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Germany and Por...

A busy half-term holiday period (Friday October 21st – Sunday October 30th) saw over 450,000 passengers passing through London Luton Airport (LLA) in search of sunnier autumn climes.  In total, over 1.3 million passengers travelled through the airport during October, bringing the annual total ...

Among the most popular airBaltic destinations for the past summer season were Malaga, Barcelona and Lisbon. Scheduled flights between Riga and all three leisure destinations will continue to be operated also during the upcoming winter season. Martin Gauss, Chief Executive Officer of airBaltic:...

Wizz Air, Romania’s largest and Europe’s fastest growing, most sustainable airline, today announces significant expansion in Romania, adding five aircraft to its base in Bucharest, as well as increasing capacity on flights to Bacau, Cluj-Napoca, Iași and Sibiu. As part of this growth, the ai...

Korean Air will resume its routes to Rome and Barcelona from September after being suspended in March 2020 due to the pandemic. The airline has been restoring its Europe network and has also resumed its Milan and Vienna routes earlier this month. Flights to Rome will resume on September 1, and...

Brussels Airport welcomed more than 1.7 million passengers in June, an increase of 168% compared to June 2021 and 72% of the number of passengers in 2019, before the Covid crisis. Brussels Airport continues its momentum as these are again the highest monthly figures since the crisis began in Marc...

Brussels Airport welcomed more than 1.5 million passengers during April, an increase of 527% compared to April 2021 and a decrease of 31% compared to April 2019 (before the Covid crisis). This is the highest number of passengers since the start of the crisis in March 2020. Air cargo volumes ar...

A new state-of-the-art Airbus A320 Flight Training Device (FTD) Level 2 is ready for training at BAA Training Spain. It is one of a few devices of this kind in Europe with Level 2 certification. It offers high-fidelity training functionality: the cockpit, visual system, and software are identi...

Emirates has announced it will resume four weekly services to Mexico City (MEX) via Barcelona (BCN) from 2nd July 2021, re-opening connectivity and boosting trade and tourism while providing customers worldwide with more connectivity, convenience and choice. The BCN-MEX route will be operated wit...

BAA Training has unveiled the first Airbus A320 FFS which is ready for training in a brand-new pilot training centre BAA Training Spain located in Barcelona, 10 minutes away from El-Prat airport. The Airbus A320 operational readiness, in fact, signifies that pilot training operations are ready to...

The Spanish carrier Vueling Airlines sees opportunities in the Swedish market and will relaunch its route between Barcelona and Göteborg Landvetter Airport in mid-June with two weekly departures. The Spanish low-cost carrier Vueling Airlines is returning to Gothenburg and Göteborg Landvetter af...

By bbc.co.uk About 10 UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona. They left Heathrow on the Saturday morning British Airways flight, but were refused entry on arrival. They were stopped by border police an...