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Jet2.com opens new route between East Midlands and Malaga

The arrival of the summer season brings an increase in air links. The English low cost airline Jet2.com has launched today a new direct route between the capital of the Costa del Sol and the British Airport East Midlands.

The company already offers seven flights to and from Malaga terminal, from where it flies to Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Blackpool and Newcastle.

The frequency of this new route will vary from three to five flights weekly and will continue until November 3.

Malaga Airport-Costa del Sol shares with its passengers the interactive experience Travel it!

This is an innovative exhibition, organized by the Aena Foundation on environmental vocation of Aena airports, allowing users to receive personalized answers on-site and send messages through social networks.

Through a large screen and four i-Pads, the exhibition offers visitors the possibility to choose their level of participation in the experience through a transmedia platform that takes place in two areas: On the one hand, the physical exposure of 63 square meters, which can be accessed by interacting and receiving personalized responses.
Furthermore, with a virtual projection accessible from anywhere in the world through social networks, the corporate websites of Aena www.aena.es and www.aena-aeropuertos.es and even with a specific application (Travel it!) for i-Phone and i-Pad.

After passing through the airports of Madrid-Barajas, Alicante and Valencia Travel it! will stay in the boarding area of the T3 of Malaga airport-Costa del Sol during two months, until July 23, and subsequently will be exhibited in other Spanish airports during 2012 and 2013.

Airberlin flies from Malaga to 17 destinations in Germany

Airberlin plane at Malaga airport

The airport of Malaga on the Costa del Sol remains a major airport for Airberlin this summer. In total, the airline flies from this May to 40 destinations, of which three are domestic, 17 German, 16 to the rest of Europe and four international.

Airberlin flights from Malaga will be 17 destinations in Germany, among which are the most attractive cities like Berlin, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Munich and Hamburg.

Furthermore, Malaga will be connected to the Austrian cities of Vienna, Graz, Linz and Salzburg, with Basel and Zurich (Switzerland), as well as Bucharest (Romania), Copenhagen (Denmark), Stockholm (Sweden), Milan, Naples and Olbia (Italy), Nice (France), Sofia (Bulgaria), Oslo (Norway), Moscow (Russia), Tel Aviv (Israel), Miami and New York (United States).

The increase in international destinations linked to Malaga airport in cooperation with Etihad Airways is one of the most important news for the summer season 2012.

For the first time in the summer season, you can fly via Berlin, Dusseldorf and Munich to Abu Dhabi daily, and continue the flight from Abu Dhabi to Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Bahrain, Kuwait, Maldives, Oman, Pakistan, Seychelles, Sri Lanka or Bangkok.

Spain, with the hub of Mallorca, in 2012 will remain an important and strategic market for Airberlin. In addition, through the two German hubs in Berlin and Dusseldorf are within easy reach from Mallorca another 22 destinations in Europe and around the world. Thus, the total number of destinations available in Airberlin will be 66 in 18 countries.

New printer service for passengers at Malaga Airport-Costa del Sol

Malaga Airport on the Costa del Sol has launched a new service for printers at different points for internet installed in the terminals.

The new printers complete the telematic service offered by Malaga Airport-Costa del Sol, which makes available to passengers and users eighteen computers with internet access in both public areas and in the restricted area of check-in of the terminals T2 and T3.

The traveller can print any document such as a boarding pass from ten of these computers located in different areas of the T3 (six of them in ‘Departures’, in the check-in area and the remaining four in the boarding area).

In addition to Internet access, this service allows, through USB ports, to display and process files; therefore, from the ten machines attached to the printers can be printed documents downloaded from the Internet or that the passenger has in his memory ‘flash’.

Malaga Airport-Costa del Sol has at its facilities multiple internet access points called Pay-As-You-Go, divided between public areas and areas reserved for passengers in the airport terminals T3 and T2.

The first commercial aircrafts landing on the second runway at Malaga airport

Second runway at Malaga airport

The first private planes landed yesterday in the second runway at Malaga airport, thus this infrastructure has already begun its work.

There have been a total of 44 aircrafts, of which the first was a private plane and the first commercial flight was of the company Transavia.

These were the first passengers who have arrived at the runway called “12/30″ and which has been placed in service after obtaining the security clearance of Civil Aviation on April 30.

Aena sources explained that these landing manoeuvres do not mean its widespread use, but for now form part of the training of the control tower facing the future commissioning on a wider scale. Thus this space will be used initially on demand, only in moments of maximum saturation of operations during the peak summer season.

The facility was certified by the State Agency for Aviation Safety, which supports compliance with new international standards. With this title, Malaga became the third airport in the country, along with Madrid and Ibiza, which is ahead of the new requirements, which will be mandatory from 2016.