Friday, July 21, 2006

Cheap Flights from Tenerife North Airport

Two low-cost airlines have declared their intention of commencing flights between Madrid and the airport of Los Rodeos, Tenerife North, this winter. In both cases the airlines have asked for slots, although this does not confirm that they will use them. This should be confirmed at the end of this month.

The second largest low-cost airline in Europe, Easyjet, is proposing three flights per day between the Spanish capital and Los Rodeos, Monday through Sunday. These 21 weekly flights will provide 6,552 seats on Easyjet's A319 aircraft.

Vueling Airlines, Spanish low-cost airline with headquarters in Cataluña, has also declared their interest in operating in Tenerife, although they have initially only requested four connections per week, two on Saturdays and two on Sundays.

Vueling has also asked for authorization to establish other flights between Barcelona and Los Rodeos, which will offer a total of 2,880 seats per week.

These options practically guarantee that the cost of tickets will reduce.

The airports' authority (AENA) previsions also note that Hungarian national airline, Malev, wish to establish a weekly flight on Fridays, between Los Rodeos and Budapest. While other airlines already established at Los Rodeos have declared their interest in increasing current services. Among them is Air Europa, who have asked to increase their routes to the mainland to 21 flights a week to Madrid, six to Seville and three to Bilbao. Spanair will increase their flights to Madrid to 27 weekly and eight to Barcelona. Air Berlin will increase their routes to Nuremberg to twice a week and, Canary Island airline, Binter Canarias, has also requested permission to fly five times a week to Brussels.

Easyjet quiere volar este invierno tres veces al día entre Madrid y Los Rodeos