flights from Bilbao: Loiu is going up, also with international flights | Radio Bilbao

With the opening of the month of July, after the agreement within the European Union and with the agreed restrictions, the external borders are reopened. Since June 21, free movement within the EU was allowed. In this context of progressive opening, the Loiu airport, the main gateway to the territory, is going up the flight.

Waiting for the airlines to reel off their de-escalation plans, according to the latest data provided by AENA, as of today there are nine operating airlines at the Biscayan aerodrome.

In March, with the outbreak of the pandemic, he was left without international connections. On June 15, the German company, Lufthansa was the first to regain the connection with Frankfurt. Since then, activity has been low, not even the airport cafeteria and shops have been opened.

28 commercial operations are planned for July 1. A number of landings and take-offs that is far from what used to be usual before the blow of the Covid, which was around 140 one July.

During the next few days, national and international connections will be recovering. In total, there are 26 confirmed destinations. Air Europa will connect Bilbao with Lanzarote, Mallorca, Tenerife and Madrid. Vueling will have thirteen national routes active (Barcelona, ​​Alicante, Fuerteventura, Granada, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Malaga, Mallorca, Menorca, Seville, Tenerife, Valencia), in addition to London and Paris. Among the international flights are KLM to Amsterdam, Brussels Airlines that connects with the Belgian capital and Ryanair with London. Volotea will fly to Malta as the only international destination this summer, as it has decided to delay flights to Porto until September. At the moment, airlines such as Turkish or the Portuguese TAP have not made public their de-escalation plans.

All passengers from abroad must fill out a form, which will be done online shortly, and their temperature is taken.

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