A NEW budget airline is set to bring super-cheap air fares to travellers in Spain later this year, including direct connections to the Costa Blanca and Andalucia.
Fly2Galicia will launch operations from December 1 with eight direct domestic and European routes, with one-way flights available for as little as €20.
The airline will be based out of Santiago de Compostela airport in the north-west of the country, with destinations including Milan, Venice, Munich, Prague and Brussels.
Travellers will also be able to benefit from three domestic routes, linking Galicia with Zaragoza, Granada and Alicante.
Fly2Galicia will begin operations with just one aircraft, believed to be an Airbus A320, under the terms of an ACMI agreement rather than its own air operator certificate.
An ACMI agreement, also known as a wet lease, is an aviation agreement where one airline provides an aircraft, complete flight crew, maintenance and insurance to another airline.
The renting airline then pays for operating hours and variable costs like fuel and airport fees.
The identity of the participating airline has not yet been disclosed.
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Fly2Galicia will offer 17 weekly departures to its range of destinations – including 3 per week to Alicante and 2 per week to Granada, Zaragoza, Milan, Venice, Munich, Prague and Brussels.
Ticket sales launched on August 18 and can be found on Fly2Galicia’s website.
The airline will operate out of Santiago de Compostela airport, which shut for more than a month earlier this year for major repair work.
The airport closed its doors to all flight traffic between April 23 and May 27.
During that time, the airport’s 3,200-metre-long landing strip underwent a multi-million-euro glow-up before the peak summer season, with planned maintenance work also including full resurfacing of the runway and improvements to lighting and drainage.
Santiago de Compostela is Spain’s sixteenth busiest airport, serving more than 3.1 million passengers last year.
That figure represents a 14.3 per cent fall on traffic from 2024, according to statistics released by Aena, Spain’s airport operator.
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