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BUMPY RIDE with top tourist airport pole-axed by COVID-19 on Spain’s Costa Blanca
COVID-19 took its toll on Alicante-Elche airport last year with passenger numbers slashed by 85% on 2019's historic record high. Figures from airport operator, Aena,...
WATCH: Police discover 26,000 baby chicks left to die at Spain’s Madrid airport as hunt begins for those responsible
SPANISH National Police rescued some 20,000 live chicks abandoned at the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport, last weekend. They had been crammed into tiny cardboard boxes...
Olive Press reporter describes what journey from UK to Spain is like now that borders are open
AN Olive Press reporter who was trapped in the UK for months due to the coronavirus pandemic has finally managed to return to Spain.
TRAVEL: Online searches for Spanish domestic flights to Malaga Airport surge by 523% in a week as Costa del...
Ryanair, EasyJet and Vueling are the main airline companies to offer flights to Malaga
TRAVEL: Spain’s Malaga Airport to kick-start Costa del Sol tourist season with 100 daily flights from July
The estimated 100 daily flights are one-fifth of the number of flights from last summer.
Number of plane passengers in Spain decrease by nearly 60% in March, in comparison to the same month last...
THE number of plane passengers in Spain has decreased by a staggering 59.3% in the month of March, compared to the same month last year.
Ryanair launches €6 flights from Spanish airports to London
RYANAIR has launched last-minute flights from Spain for €6.
Emergency landings on Spain’s Costa del Sol
Thirty minutes after the flight from Barcelona made its appearance, the Costa del Sol airport had to receive another flight from Madrid
Alicante airport CLOSED from 1pm Sunday until 1pm Monday as snowstorms hit the Costa Blanca
ALICANTE airport will be closed from 1pm today until 1pm on Monday. Storm Gloria has this morning hit the Costa Blanca region, with snow falling...
Campaigners slam ‘squandering of public money’ as Murcia’s trouble-ridden Corvera Airport celebrates its first anniversary
MURCIA region’s ‘new’ airport, Corvera, celebrates its first anniversary today, after an auspicious opening in January 2019. Although the hi-tech replacement for the much-loved and...
Fears that Alicante Airport could remain closed ‘all night’ as authorities say firefighters still working to extinguish fire in...
ALICANTE Airport could remain shut until tomorrow morning after authorities have said firefighting efforts will take 'all night'. The Valencian Community's 112 emergency service has...
WATCH: Roof catches fire at Alicante Airport while thousands of passengers remain outside terminal
THE roof at Alicante Airport caught fire today causing all passengers in the main terminal to evacuate while incoming flights have been diverted. The fire...
HUGE fire ignites near Alicante airport, firetrucks called, black smoke rises near car park
It is unsure how the fire started, but bundle of clothes in a landfill is thought to the main source of the inferno.
Tourist dies in Catalan airport chaos as riots paralyse Barcelona after Spain jails independence leaders
The airport had seen 45 flights cancelled yesterday and 100 on Monday due to violent clashes involving thousands of people
Firefighter injured in explosion as he tackles huge ‘caravan fire’ near Spain’s Malaga Airport
Tyres have also been set alight by the fire, prompting the deployment of staff from the Andalucian Health Service
WATCH: Protests at Barcelona’s airport turn violent cancelling 100 flights after Spain’s Supreme Court jails Catalunya leaders
In total 108 flights were cancelled as Barceclona’s main airport was taken over and at least 56 people were injured, with 10 hospitalised
PANIC: Thousands holidaying in Spain in fear as Thomas Cook collapse could leave 150,000 travellers stranded
The travel giant’s collapse could leave 150,000 holidaymakers stranded
Two rowdy men arrested after heated scrap on flight from Spain’s Mallorca to Dublin
When they landed at Dublin Airport a fight broke out between them, at the bottom steps of the plane.
Jail for British gangster traced to Spain and nabbed while waiting for wife at airport
Detectives had linked Lindsay to a gang who have been jailed for a total of 87 years after an investigation into violence, drugs and firearms offences
British Airways computer glitch sparks travel chaos at London airports
The airline has blamed a 'system problem' for delays, cancellations and long queues affecting short-haul flights from Heathrow, Gatwick and London City airports
TRAVEL CHAOS: London Gatwick IT meltdown sees 12 flights cancelled as Spain passenger ‘trapped’ beyond gate
A spokesperson blamed the new cancellations on planes being in the wrong place following Wednesday’s disruption
Facial recognition cameras installed at Gibraltar Airport
Software in the cameras creates a biometric map of the points on a person’s face
Alicante airport reopened after private plane crashed upon landing
ALICANTE airport has reopened after a private plane crashed upon landing at 2pm this afternoon. The landing gear of the jet collapsed as it...
Group of 14 ‘drunken’ Brits dragged off Jet2 flight by police in Spain and now face €500,000 fine
The passengers were apparently walking in the aisles when the seat belt signs were on, and refused to obey the orders of staff
Alicante Airport pandemonium was just about worth it for an English bowl of jellied eels, writes Loraine Gostling
Oh well, it was only 55 minutes, so we could browse the Toblerone and smell the latest designer aromas at leisure in Duty Free
Jamie Oliver’s empire goes into administration with 1,000 job losses just a week after new Costa del Sol restaurant
It comes after Oliver angered Spain by bastardising a traditional Valencian paella with chorizo in 2016
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