He Board of Trustees Costa Blanca has valued that the airlines “of reference” have opted this summer for the Alicante-Elche airport to launch more than a dozen new routes national and international, while highlighting “the high percentage of scheduled flights that companies are maintaining, between seventy and eighty percent.”
The aerodrome opens connections with London, Vienna, Exeter, Dusseldorf, Amsterdam, Warsaw or Luxembourg. The director of the Costa Blanca Board of Trustees, Jose Mancebo, has valued that these links “reveal the potential, attractiveness and tourist strength” of the territory.
“The municipalities and the sector have made a great effort to reinvent itself, face the future with perspective and adapt its services to the safety and hygiene protocols that COVID-19 has marked “, he valued.
During the months of July, August and September, the airlines that operate at Alicante-Elche airport offer a total of 7,922 flights Y 1,397,006 spaces, has detailed the Diputación de Alicante in a statement.
Among the main novelties is the link of British Airways which connects the province with the London terminal of Heathrow for the first time – “motivated by the increase in British people who are buying a home on the Costa Blanca”, according to the Provincial Council -; the recovery by KLM of the summer route with Amsterdam with an average of four weekly frequencies –18,406 seats and 106 flights – or the start of a flight with the Polish city of Warsaw operated by LOT Polish Airlines.
“Despite the difficult situation we are going through, Alicante-Elche airport is one of the best positioned internationally,” he indicated, while adding that “proof of this is the high percentage of scheduled flights that companies are holding, between seventy and eighty percent. “
Since the coronavirus crisis began, the Alicante Provincial Council It has developed different initiatives and promotional campaigns aimed at “reactivating the flow of visitors, accelerating the recovery of the sector and promoting the territory as a safe destination”.
“Among other actions, we have met with entities and associations to establish strategies to promote and work on a plan to stop the recession, we have approved an initial aid package amounting to half a million euros, in collaboration with the Generalitat Valenciana, and We have made claims to the Government of Spain in the line of prolonging the ERTES, due to force majeure, and propose a ‘fiscal summer’ that reduces the tax pressure in 2020, “explained Mancebo.
“Although it is early to make forecasts, there are signs that the bet and confidence of the airlines in our destination can continue over the next few months, without forgetting, yes, that the situation will be conditioned by the evolution of the pandemic, “he concluded.
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