Jerez Airport Announces New Flight Plans
Jerez airport is to operate new flights to northern Europe from Spring 2007. There will be more flights to more destinations and more often. Jerez de la Frontera’s International Airport (La Parra) is planning to significantly expand its flight programme from March 2007. New international destinations include Manchester, Copenhagen and Helsinki, and there will also be more flights direct from Jerez to Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao.
The new direct link between Jerez and Manchester comes thanks to the expansion of Monarch Airlines into the province of Cadiz. The firm is already selling tickets for the service which will start to operate on March 25th.
The growing popularity of Costa de la Luz, and Costa del Sol, has led two Scandinavian tour operators to embark on sending passengers directly to Jerez airport. The Scandinavian branch of the British group 'My Travel' is to launch a direct weekly link with Stockholm from Spring 2007, and another weekly flight between Jerez and Copenhagen from the summer. The main Finnish tour operator, Aurinkomatkat, has announced the start of a Jerez-Helsinki line also from next year.
Meanwhile, the volume of domestic flights from Jerez is also expected to increase significantly over the next year. After operating a link to Madrid from the terminal for the last year and a half, the company Spanair plans to start running two return flights a day between Jerez and Barcelona from May 2007. There is currently one flight a day between the two airports, run by Iberia, and Spanair predicts that the new competition will help reduce ticket prices by 50 per cent. Meanwhile, Spanair has also announced a daily flight from Jerez to Bilbao.
Furthermore, both Iberia and Spanair face new competition on the Jerez-Madrid route with the introduction of the company Vueling, which has announced that its flights between La Parra and the country’s capital will start next year. Currently an average of 1,200 passengers fly between Jerez and Madrid every day.
The volume of passengers using Jerez’s La Parra airport has increased by 62 per cent in the last five years, reflecting the flux of passengers increasing use of Málaga airport.
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