Flybe Flights To Spain

Flybe fly direct from four different UK airports to four different Spanish Airports.

Below is a listing of the various routes on offer.

Flybe have also just made changes to the way they deal with luggage, The hand luggage allowance has been increased to 10kgs in one bag and the following applies to normal baggage:

They have increased their baggage allowance to 25 kgs per passenger but you have to pay £2 for every bag that you wish to check in.

They would also like you to say when booking your tickets how many bags you will be checking in for your flights. This of course can be tricky especially if you have got kids.

For those passengers who don't specify how many bags they are taking or for those who turn up with more bags than they said there will be a £4 per bag charge at check in.

Top make what I have written a little clearer I copied this from the Flybe website:

- If you do not carry checked baggage, you will no longer have to pay the cost of carrying other peoples bags and will save £1 off your ticket
- Flybe will double the weight allowance that can be carried as hand baggage.
- Flybe will remove excess baggage charges for 99% of the travelling public by increasing hold baggage allowance to 25kgs (the highest in the low cost sector).
- Flybe will exempt all economy plus passengers from paying any baggage costs (up to 30kg).
- Flybe will introduce charges for each checked item of hold baggage of £2, per item, per sector, if booked in advance, and £4 per item, per sector if presented un-booked at the airport
- As a result of the change passengers will now only pay for the service they use rather than the cost being unfairly spread across all passengers on the aircraft whether they check a bag in or not.

Here are the details of the Flybe flights to Spain:

Flybe flights to Alicante Airport: Exeter, Birmingham, Southampton, Norwich.

Flybe flights to Malaga Airport: Birmingham, Exeter, Southampton and Norwich

Flybe flights to Murcia Airport: Birmingham, Exeter, Southampton, Norwich and Guernsey

Flybe flights to Palma Airport: Exeter, Birmingham and Southampton

Easyjet Flights To Spain

Easyjet have now released all their flights to Spain for the summer of 2006 and below I have listed the routes they offer from the UK and the rest of Europe.

It's safe to assume that the earlier you book the better chance you have of getting a good deal.

Although some cheap flights can be found about 6 weeks before the flight leaves if there are too many seats left.

This year Easyjet have started to fly from Spain to other parts of Europe. At the moment you can fly between Spain and Geneva, Mulhouse in Germany, Berlin and Milan Malpensa.

I would expect Easyjet to expand their European destinations this year and I have heard that they are considering setting up a base in the new terminal at Madrid Airport and they are also looking inot setting up a base in either Barcelona or Malaga. Watch this space!

Easyjet flights to Asturias: Stansted

Easyjet flights to Alicante Airport: Belfast, Bristol, Basel- Mulhouse, Liverpool, East Midlands, Newcastle, Luton, Gatwick, Stansted, Geneva, Milan Malpensa

Eayjet flights to Almeria Airport: Gatwick and Stansted

Easyjet flights to Barcelona Airport: Berlin, Bristol, Gatwick, Luton, Stansted, Liverpool, Newcastle, Paris, Geneva, Basel Mulhouse, Dortmund

Easyjet flights to Ibiza Airport: Liverpool, Gatwick, Stansted and Newcastle

Easyjet flights to Madrid Airport: Liverpool, Bristol, Luton, Gatwick, Paris, Geneva, Basel - Mulhouse, Milan Nalpensa, Berlin

Easyjet flights to Malaga: Belfast, Bristol, East Midlands, Basel Mulhouse, Milan Malpensa, Newcastle, Stansted, Liverpool, Luton, Gatwick, Geneva.

Easyjet flights to Menorca Airport: Bristol and Gatwick

Easyjet to Murcia Airport: Bristol and Gatwick

Easyjet flights to Palma de Mallorca Airport: Belfast, Liverpool, Bristol, Luton, Gatwick, Stansted, Newcastle, Dortmund, Basel - Mulhouse, Berlin.

Easyjet flights to Valencia Airport: Bristol, Stansted, Gatwick, Berlin.

Easyjet flights to Faro Airport: Belfast, Bristol, East Midlands, Newcastle, Gatwick, Luton and Stansted.

Ryanair Flights To Faro

I know that Faro Airport is in Portugal but it is only about a 40 minute drive inside the border with Spain.

It's probably easier for people to fly into Faro Airport and drive to places like Cadiz and Huelva on the Costa De La Luz. The other airports in this region are Seville, Jerez and at a push Malaga.

Alternatively you could do a combined holiday and fly into Faro, spend a few days at somewhere like Vale Do Lobo or Vilamoura and then drive down to Marbella (4 hours) spend the rest of your holiday here and fly out of Malaga Airport.

Anyway, from April 2006 Ryanair are stepping up their flights from Dublin to Faro and are now offering flights on every day of the week.

You can bookyour flights direct with Ryanair

Reus Airport Information

I recently went to Barcelona and thought that I should hire a car and drive down to Reus Airport as I hadn't been there for a while and I wanted to see what was going on.

Reus Airport is a small and until recently relatively unknown airport about 100 kms south of Barcelona. In 1995 just 473,000 passed through Reus Airport and these were mainly charter flights arriving over the summer months from the UK and Germany.

By 2004 passenger numbers had soared to just over 1.1 million thanks largely to Iberia Airlines for providing a decent number of internal flights from Madrid and Palma de Mallorca, Rynair from the UK and Ireland and Air Berlin from Germany. There are still a large number of charter flights that offer flights here over the peak summer months.

Aena the Spanish Airport Authority, have been busy slowly upgrading Reus Airport and there is now a new arrivals terminal with a decent coffee shop, four car hire companies and quick access to both the buses and taxis at Reus Airport.

Work has also begun on the departures terminal and a new check in area has been completed. Although this area has been finished you still have to walk through into the old departures hall to go through passport and customs control.

The thing that surprised me the most was that parking at the airport is completely free, I can't see this lasting too much longer.

Ryanair advertise the airport as Reus Barcelona and getting up to Barcelona from here is not that bad. There are however twelve different UK Airports offering direct flights into Barcelona Airport and if you are only here for a weekend it is worth paying a little bit more money and arriving in Barcelona itself rather than Reus. From March 2006 there is also a new direct flight from glasgow Prestwick to Reus with Ryanair.

Reus is however a great airport for those of you who are traveling to the busy resort of Salou or the City of Tarragona. It is also pretty easy to get to the exclusive resort of Sitges from here.

I drove in my hire car from Barcelona down to Reus and the journey took around 1¼ hours. It's and easy drive along the toll road and the airport is well sign posted.

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Shopping Sales in Spain

The winter shopping sales are about to start.

Yesterday some of the furniture shops at La Canada in Marbella already had their sales signs up and the clothes shops are due to start their winter sales on Saturday 7th January 2006.

You can read more information about shopping in Spain here

Aer Lingus Flights To Spain

Aer Lingus has just announced some new routes to Europe from Ireland.

From next June 2006 you will be able to fly from Cork to Berlin, Birmingham and Tenerife Airport in the Canary Islands.

You can already fly direct from Cork to Alicante Airport, Barcelona Airport, Malaga Airport on the Costa Del Sol and Faro Airport on the Algarve in Portugal

Aer Lingus is also planning to add direct flights from Dublin to Palma de Mallorca Airport in the near future.

You can also already fly to the following Spanish and Portuguese destinations direct from Dublin: Bilbao, Barcelona, Palma Majorca, Valencia, Madrid, Alicante, Almeria, Seville, Malaga, Faro and Lisbon Airports.

Aer Lingus now provides a total of 59 routes from Dublin and 14 from Cork.

Easyjet flights for 2006

Easyjet have now released all their flights for the summer of 2006.

Nows the time to book your flights, the first lot released are always the cheapest, then they tend to go up bit by bit until about six weeks before the travel date when any remaining tickets are generally sold off cheaply.

For booking, routes etc goto Easyjet.com

Cheap Flights To Spain

Just found some amazing deals on the Thomsonfly website.

If you are looking to travel over to Spain for the new year they have flights from Doncaster to Alicante for as little as 1p. It's not a con I checked it out.

The return flights will obviously cost a little more but I even found them to be cheap (19.99). Dont forget to add tax on aswell!

Check out the prices at Thomsonfly special offers

Cancelled Flight Refunds

Have you ever not turned up for your flight?

Did you wonder if you could possibly get some kind of refund even on cheap non-refundable, non-exchangable tickets?

Last year it happened to us, due to illness we didn’t use our tickets, but buying cheap tickets through Easy Jet we just let the money go and didn’t think of trying to get some kind of refund.

However, a couple of weeks ago, on BBC2´s “Working Lunch” programme, they brought to light “why should we pay the airport tax if you don’t use the airport”. With around 5% of tickets being “no-shows” that’s a lot of money floating around. So, if for some reason you are unable to fly, you can at least claim back some of the tax you have paid on your tickets, which these days, is often more than the ticket itself.

Some airlines do charge a fee for the administration of making a claim and prices vary. For further information visit: The Working Lunch Website

New Ryanair Flights From Dublin

Ryanair have just announced a whole host of new routes from Dublin to 18 different European destinations.

As Rynaair already offer an extensive service to Spain it was no surprise to see that no additional Spanish routes were added.

At the moment Ryanair fly to the following airports in Spain from about 35 different European Citites. The main Spanish hub for all Ryanair flights is at Girona Airport which is about 90kms north of Barcelona.

Ryanir currently fly to: Girona, Santiago De Compostela, Bilbao, Vitoria, Zaragoza, Reus, Valencia, Murcia, Almeria, Malaga, Granada, Jerez and Seville.

You can book Ryaniar flights direct at www.ryanair.com

Iberia Flights to Athens

Athens International Airport welcomes Iberia’s new scheduled flight 3885, which, as of January 9th, 2006, will connect directly Athens and Madrid, every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday, with Airbus A320 and A321 aircraft. Iberia operates already two daily services from Athens, to Madrid and Barcelona.

The new services will provide Iberia’s passengers the opportunity to optimise their connections with 34 destinations in Spain, 21 in America, and 8 in Africa.

Record Christmas Flights From Scotland

A record number of Scots are expected to jet off to the sun this Christmas to escape the winter chill, it has emerged.

More than 500,000 passengers will fly in and out of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen airports during the festive season.

Traditional sunspots such as Tenerife, Alicante and Malaga are among this year's top 10 Christmas destinations, according to airport operator BAA.

The Middle East is also emerging as a favourite getaway for passengers, with Emirates' daily service from Glasgow to Dubai also entering the Christmas top 10 for the first time.

Glasgow Airport manager Graham Latta said: "It seems passengers have every corner of the globe covered this year, with demand for long-haul travel especially strong.

"Passengers are much more adventurous than they were just a few years ago, so while the traditional sunspots like Tenerife as are popular as ever, more and more people are travelling even further afield this Christmas."

This Friday is expected to be the busiest day of the festive season with 23,000 passengers travelling. An estimated 116,000 passengers are expected to travel in the days leading up to Christmas Day.

A further 106,000 passengers will travel between Christmas Day and Hogmanay. Several UK destinations also make the top 10, including London, Belfast, Birmingham and Bristol.

Amsterdam and Dublin are among the most popular European city breaks this Christmas. It also appears that passengers are getting into the Christmas spirit.

BAA says an estimated 30,000 pints of beer and lager, and 2,000 bottles of wine will be served throughout December as passengers unwind before their flights.

Free Flights to Spain with Ryanair

Just spotted this special from Ryanair...

Ryanair,Europe’s No. 1 low fares airline today announced a new 10 year agreement committing it to develop Brussels Charleroi Airport until 2016.

The airline will also open 5 new routes, from Brussels to Faro, Nimes, Malaga, Salzburg and Valencia from April 2006 onwards, bringing the total number of Ryanair routes from Brussels Charleroi to 16.

“To celebrate these 5 new routes and the continued growth of Brussels Charleroi, Ryanair is giving away 1M FREE* seats on www.ryanair.com until midnight Monday”. Please note this offer excludes taxes and charges

Ryanair flights from Stansted to Vitoria in Spain

From February 27th Ryanair are to start a new service between Stansted and Vitoria in Spain.

Booking and timetables are available through their website at Ryanir.com

Ryanair flights from Glasgow to Reus Airport

NO-FRILLS airline bosses yesterday announced two new European routes from Scotland.

Ryanair will begin flights from Prestwick to Barcelona Reus and Marseilles from late February.

Fares for the three-times-a week services will cost from £6.99 one way.

Prestwick chief executive Steve Fitzgerald said: "I am delighted to see further growth into Spain and France from our airport.

"I am confident these new destinations will be hugely popular with Scottish travellers."

The new Spanish and French routes will bring the number of European routes run by Ryanair from Prestwick to 20The carrier's latest Spanish route will fly to Reus Salou, which is 60 kilometres from Barcelona, from February 23.

Passenger numbers up at Malaga Airport

Passenger numbers at Málaga airport were up on 2004 by 4.8% in the first ten months of the year. Approximately 11.2 million passengers passed through the arrival and departure halls, with those on international flights up 3% and those flying within Spain rising by 12.2%. Nationally, Spanish airports handled over 156 million passengers in the same period, an increase of 8.9% on last year.

Road Improvements for Murcia Airport

Found this snippet of information which should make getting to and from Murcia Airport easier in the future!

"A big new road project is the planned link between the A7-E15 north-south motorway at Santomera and San Javier, which, amongst other things, is the site of Murcia's increasingly busy airport. More and more airlines are heading to the airport and over a million passengers have passed through this year.

The Santomera-San Javier road is in the final stages of negotiation between national and regional governments. It is planned to be 40 kilometres long and the cost will be about 210 million euros. A key element of the project is the construction of a four-kilometre long viaduct in the area of El Raal.

All the road building is being carried out as part of the Murcia regional infrastructure plan for the period 2005 to 2020."

More Flights from Ireland to Spain?

Nicky Fewer, the Chairm,an of Waterford Airport, confirmed that the airport was in talks with Isle of Man airline EuroManx with a view to developing additional scheduled services in 2006 that would see two flights a week to and from Malaga, Barcelona and Bordeaux as well as a weekly return service to Faro.

Existing Aer Arann services connect Waterford with Manchester, London Luton and Lorient. The airport's AGM was held yesterday.