From July 1 to September 13, Air Nostrum, Iberia’s franchised airline for regional flights, will reconnect the Canary and Balearic Islands with mainland airports, as well as resume operations in Valencia.
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Specifically, the Valencian company will connect Gran Canaria with Santiago de Compostela and Valencia with three weekly frequencies, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. At the same time, will connect Tenerife with Asturias, also with three frequencies a week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. With Santiago de Compostela with six frequencies a week, except Wednesdays. With Valencia it will operate four weekly frequencies on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays; and with Valladolid, two weekly frequencies, on Wednesdays and Sundays. It will also connect Lanzarote with Valencia, two times a week, on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Likewise, the Valencian airline reactivates the link between Bilbao and Valencia with four weekly frequencies, on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays, changing to two, on Fridays and Sundays, between July 17 and September 13. As of September 14, the four frequencies per week are recovered.
Balearic Islands-Peninsula
As to Balearics, specifically, in this first stage, Air Nostrum will reactivate flights between Ibiza and Alicante, with three weekly frequencies, on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, facilitating weekend getaways in both directions. From September 14 this connection will be operated only on Saturdays.
In the central weeks of summer, From July 17 to August 31, Air Nostrum will also connect Mallorca with Pamplona, with two weekly frequencies, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Likewise, will resume its Valencia operations with Ibiza, Mallorca and Menorca. The connection Ibiza-Valencia will have a daily flight until September 30. The link Mallorca-Valencia It also starts with a daily flight, which will pass to five weekly frequencies from September 14. The route Menorca-Valencia It will have four weekly frequencies and three from September 14. All flights are scheduled with reactors Bombardier CRJ 1000.
Inter-island bet
Since last Sunday, Air Nostrum operates inter-island flights, without incident and with an increasing evolution of demand. Even if the current average occupation continues to be very low, at just 28%, the airline sees a progressive increase in reservations: this Wednesday it carried more than 300 passengers, 38% of occupancy, and the reservations for Thursday exceeded 350. The route with the highest demand is the Ibiza-Palma route this Friday afternoon.
The forecast is to close the first eight days of operation with more than 2,000 passengers transporteds, of which correspond to the route that connects Mallorca with Ibiza almost 60% and 40% to the link with Menorca.
In this week of resumption of operation, almost 10% of the reservations correspond to the connection between Ibiza and Menorca via Palma, “which confirms the good acceptance of the Air Nostrum schedule, which offers two daily options in each direction to connect Ibiza with Menorca through the Mallorcan airport, with the possibility of a round trip in the day “, they point from the airline.
During the July, August and September programming, Ibiza will continue to be connected to Mallorca with three daily frequencies; and Menorca will continue in July and August with two daily flights to Mallorca, moving to three in September.
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