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Robbery Gang Used 'military Tactics' To Rob Tourists At Costa Blanca Airport In Spain

Robbers used ‘military tactics’ to steal from foreign tourists at Costa Blanca airport in Spain

Alex Trelinski - 2 Sep, 2021 @ 13:25

THREE men donned disguises and deployed military-style tactics to steal from foreign tourists arriving at Alicante-Elche airport. The Kosovo-Albanian trio used their past military training...

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Kidnapped toddler taken to the Costa Blanca in Spain is back, safe and well, in the UK

Alex Trelinski - 30 Aug, 2021 @ 11:19

AN abducted toddler taken by her parents on a flight from Glasgow to Alicante-Elche airport is safely back in the UK. Gracie-May Rogers,2, from Lancaster...

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Appeal for sightings of kidnapped UK toddler and her parents who flew into the Costa Blanca area of Spain

Alex Trelinski - 27 Aug, 2021 @ 20:00

LANCASHIRE police have appealed for sightings of a two-year-old girl on the Costa Blanca, after she was 'abducted' by her parents. Grace-May Rogers from Lancaster...

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New Flyr airline starts flying from Norway to the Costa Blanca and Costa del Sol areas of Spain

Alex Trelinski - 20 Aug, 2021 @ 13:59

A new budget airline based in Norway is launching services this weekend between Oslo and two Spanish airports. Flyr began operating in August 2020 with...

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Domestic travellers overtake British users of Costa Blanca’s Alicante-Elche airport in Spain

Alex Trelinski - 12 Aug, 2021 @ 12:34

DOMESTIC passengers overtook UK traveller numbers for Alicante-Elche airport in July. Figures from airport operator Aena put internal users at 133,000 compared to 111,784 Brits. The...

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Tourists robbed while picking up rental cars at Costa Blanca’s Alicante-Elche airport in Spain

Alex Trelinski - 9 Aug, 2021 @ 12:45

TOURISTS picking up hire cars at Alicante-Elche airport were robbed by three men in a series of distraction thefts. The crooks travelled around Spain committing...

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‘MAIL ORDER DRUGS’ as Costa Blanca gang send out marijuana parcels from Alicante-Elche airport in Spain

Alex Trelinski - 9 Jul, 2021 @ 12:15

FOUR men have been arrested over a major marijuana growing and shipping operation that dispatched customer orders from Alicante-Elche airport. The criminal enterprise was co-ordinated...

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Ryanair claims more passengers will fly into Spain’s Costa Blanca next year than before the pandemic

Alex Trelinski - 8 Jul, 2021 @ 18:10

BUDGET airline Ryanair says that passenger numbers will soon return to pre-pandemic levels on services using Alicante-Elche airport. The forecast came from the firm's head...

Costa Blanca

Alicante-Elche airport gets big road boost to ease delays on the Costa Blanca in Spain

Alex Trelinski - 21 Jun, 2021 @ 16:15

A new stretch of dual-carriageway road to cut down congestion around Alicante-Elche airport has been officially opened by Spain's Transport Minister, Jose Luis Abalos. The...

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‘Tripping’ drug from Mexico is intercepted by police at Alicante-Elche airport on Spain’s Costa Blanca

Alex Trelinski - 5 May, 2021 @ 11:45

A potentially lethal drug known as 'God's Molecule' has been seized at Alicante-Elche airport. A package from Mexico was opened by Guardia Civil officers after...

Costa Blanca

British drug dealers on the Costa Blanca in Spain are jailed for sending cocaine parcel to Australia

Alex Trelinski - 3 May, 2021 @ 12:00

THREE British men have been jailed after a parcel of drugs destined for Australia was intercepted at Alicante-Elche airport. X-ray scanners detected 855 grams of...

Ryanair returns with UK service this week to Murcia area airport in Spain

Costa Blanca

Ryanair stop Brits flying back to Spain’s Costa Blanca over a ‘time difference’ dispute

Alex Trelinski - 23 Apr, 2021 @ 20:00

A Costa Blanca couple were turned away from a Ryanair flight from Manchester to the Costa Blanca in a row over when they took...

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Alicante-Elche airport celebrates a decade of the new terminal which revolutionised the facility on Spain’s Costa Blanca

Alex Trelinski - 24 Mar, 2021 @ 20:00

STAFF at Alicante-Elche airport today created a symbolic 'number ten' to celebrate a decade since the opening of the new terminal. March 24, 2011 was...

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Costa Blanca’s Alicante-Elche airport wins top award for COVID-19 safety in Spain

Alex Trelinski - 2 Mar, 2021 @ 12:45

ALICANTE-ELCHE airport has won a health safety award to recognise its measures to reduce the chances of travellers catching COVID-19. The accolade comes from the...

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Fast test PCR laboratory to be set up in Alicante-Elche airport departure zone on Spain’s Costa Blanca

Alex Trelinski - 30 Jan, 2021 @ 14:15

COSTA Blanca's Alicante-Elche airport will be installing a laboratory in the departure area for passengers to get COVID-19 PCR tests. The service, announced by airport...

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Alicante-Elche airport is getting an extended name on Spain’s Costa Blanca

Alex Trelinski - 31 Oct, 2020 @ 14:59

ALICANTE-ELCHE airport's title is to be expanded to include the name of the famous Orihuela poet, Miguel Hernandez. The announcement was made by Spain's Transport...

Costa Blanca

COVID-19 tourist slump causes 47-year blowback for Costa Blanca’s Alicante-Elche airport in Spain

Alex Trelinski - 30 Oct, 2020 @ 15:00

A EUROPEAN UNION survey suggests that flights to and from Alicante-Elche airport have now collapsed to levels last seen in 1973. Airport operator, Aena, has...

Costa Blanca

Spanish police at Costa Blanca´s Alicante-Elche airport discover car engine with an extra-special ingredient

Alex Trelinski - 10 Jul, 2020 @ 15:34

COCAINE with a street value of €891,000 was discovered hidden in a car engine that had been sent from Peru to Alicante-Elche airport on...

Costa Blanca

Tourists flying to Spain’s Alicante airport to be required to inform authorities of contact details and holiday destination

Alex Trelinski - 17 Jun, 2020 @ 12:32

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...

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Spanish airports see 99% drop in passengers in April

Simon Wade - 17 May, 2020 @ 15:11

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...

Costa Blanca

Alicante airport CLOSED from 1pm Sunday until 1pm Monday as snowstorms hit the Costa Blanca

Joshua Parfitt - 19 Jan, 2020 @ 11:36

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...

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Brit arrested with 10,000 date rape pills in carry-on luggage at Alicante airport

Joshua Parfitt - 30 May, 2019 @ 10:31

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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