Tag: Alicante airport
Police union demands extra officers for Spain’s Costa Blanca airport to reduce UK traveller queues at passport control
A police union wants more officers at Alicante-Elche airport to reduce queues and numbers of missed flights for UK travellers who need their passports...
REVEALED: The contrasts between UK and Spanish rules for foreign travel and who has the final say
AMIDST dozens of Brits being flown back to the UK and others being refused journeys by UK airline staff, the Olive Press can report...
EXCLUSIVE: Another Brit denied flight speaks of anguish at not seeing sons at Easter due to ‘rude and abrupt’...
ANOTHER travelling Brit refused travel by Ryanair at Manchester Airport today has told the Olive Press of his anguish.
With all the appropriate documentation, John...
EXCLUSIVE: Brits turned away at UK boarding gate by staff “acting on behalf of Spain”
BRITS travelling from one UK airport are now being subject to “arbitrary rules made up on behalf of another country”, according to one Olive...
EXCLUSIVE: Brit involved in “living nightmare” of mass deportation from Spain’s Alicante Airport speaks out
THE BRITISH expat told by Ryanair that he fulfilled “legitimate requirements” to enter Spain but was put on a plane back to the UK...
‘Fury’ at Spain’s Alicante Airport as 40 Brits deported back to UK after flight from Manchester
DOZENS of Brits arriving at Alicante-Elche airport yesterday were refused entry to Spain and sent back to Manchester on the SAME PLANE.
Border guards had...
Tourists flying to Spain’s Alicante airport to be required to inform authorities of contact details and holiday destination
FOREIGN travellers flying into Alicante-Elche airport will have to fill in a form with details of their home area and final destination, to stop...
Spanish airports see 99% drop in passengers in April
AIRPORTS belonging to the AENA Group suffered a 99% year-on-year drop in passengers in April, figures have revealed.
Just 141,000 people travelled through...
OPINION: Consultant psychologist slams Alicante Airport’s ‘chaotic and inhumane’ response to paralysing Wednesday fire
I was on a flight from Alicante to Leeds yesterday.
When the fire broke out in the airport it was noticed by passengers some 20mins...
Reopening at fire-ravaged Costa Blanca airport is postponed even further
Operations have been further affected at Alicante-Elche Airport, where a roof fire saw thousands evacuated, yesterday afternoon.
The reopening is postponed and will not...
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...
Costa Blanca airport soars high with a record 15 million passengers passing through
AN 8% increase in travellers throughout 2019 means that Alicante-Elche Airport will close the year having dealt with over 15 million passengers.
Management company, AENA,...
Alicante airport named Spain’s most disruptive destination with boozy Brits blamed for 75% of airborne incidents
BOOZY Benidorm-bound Brits are back in the spotlight after figures revealed they have made Alicante airport Spain's most disruptive destination.
Alicante's main El Altet airport...
British fugitive ‘warehouse robber’ arrested at Spain’s Alicante Airport after trying to evade customs officers
All four arrests happened in the last 10 days in a crackdown on international crime
WATCH: Secret filming reveals Goldcar staff ‘BULLY’ tourists and charge ‘€300 for scratch’ on Spain’s Costa del Sol and...
In Europe, customers are not required to buy additional insurance when renting a car and are covered with ‘basic’ insurance by law
Ryanair refuse British nurse a flight home from Alicante after her ‘swollen face’ didn’t match passport picture
RYANAIR has refused boarding to a British nurse after her face swelled up and no longer matched her passport picture.
Shannon Wotherspoon, 24, was stranded...
Three ‘pirate taxis’ confiscated from illicit drivers at Alicante-Elche Airport
THREE ‘pirate taxis’ have been confiscated from their drivers during a sting operation at Alicante-Elche Airport.
The vehicles were found to have no authorisation to...
Brit arrested with 10,000 date rape pills in carry-on luggage at Alicante airport
DATE rape drugs take away your freedom, until you take away the freedom of their traffickers.
A British man has now been arrested after Guardia...
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Four teenagers who ‘threw rocks on cars travelling on the A-7 motorway in Spain’s Marbella’ are quizzed by police
A GROUP of teenagers caused chaos in Marbella on Monday morning by throwing rocks from an overpass at cars driving along the motorway.
The gang,...
