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B.
Jerez Airport
to Increase Flights from Spring 2007
Jerez de la Frontera's international airport (La Parra) is
planning to expand its flight programme from March 2007. The airport is
making the most of the growing interest shown by foreign tour operators in
the Costa de la Luz. New destinations include Manchester in the UK, and
Scandinavian cities and there will also be more flights direct from Jerez to
Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao. The new direct link between Jerez and
Manchester is due to the expansion of Monarch Airlines into the province of
Cadiz. The firm is already selling tickets for the service which will start
to operate on March 25th. There will be four flights a week.
| n.b. Please note that
the recent addition of Ryanair flights from Manchester to Jerez is
being stopped (November 1007) until further notice. Ryanair will
still however be flying in from Stansted. |
Meanwhile the volume of domestic flights from Jerez is also
expected to increase significantly over the next year. After operating a
link to Madrid from the terminal for the last year and a half, the company
Span-Air plans to start running two return flights a day between Jerez and
Barcelona from May 2007 and Span-air has also announced a daily flight from
Jerez to Bilbao. Furthermore both Iberia and Span-Air face new competition
on the Jerez-Madrid route with the introduction of the company Vueling,
which has announced that its flights between La Parra and the capital will
start next year. Currently an average of 1,200 passengers fly between Jerez
and Madrid every day. |
