The Hondarribia airport registers this Friday with the incorporation of the flight to London to its offer the record of destinations in the same day, with up to six connections. To those already known Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla, Málaga y Mahon, this noon the route with the British capital is added five years after the last commercial flight to the United Kingdom. The Gipuzkoan aerodrome thus completes with CityFlyer, from British Airways, the offer announced for this summer.
In total there are eight destinations that these weeks will be operational from Hondarribia thanks to Iberia, Vueling, Volotea, Binter and CityFlyer, since to those already mentioned we must add Palma de Mallorca y The Gran Canarian palmswhat Volotea y Binter They operate other days of the week.
The latest to join these connections is the airport of London City, which includes the Gipuzkoan aerodrome among its summer offer. Behind the London aerodromes of Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Luton, before the pandemic it exceeded five million annual passengers and counts among its destinations, in addition to Hondarribia, European capitals such as Dublin, Amsterdam, Berlin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Geneva, Luxembourg and Vilnius, as well as other temporary ones during the summer such as Prague, Salzburg, Milan and Thessaloniki.
A few minutes before 11:45 a.m., the Embraer-190, with capacity for just over 100 passengers, which has left five minutes late compared to the scheduled time (8:55 am, British time). After flying over the East of the London metropolitan area and the English Channel, it has crossed Brittany to cross the Cantabrian Sea until landing in Hondarribia in just an hour and a half of flight. The expected time of return is after 12:30 p.m.
Fridays and Mondays will be the two days with connection between both aerodromes, which will last until the beginning of September. Flights to the United Kingdom will depart at 5:25 p.m. on Mondays and at 12:35 p.m. on Fridays, while to fly from London to Gipuzkoa it will be necessary to do so several hours earlier: on Mondays, at 1:45 p.m. local time, one hour more in Hondarribia), and on Fridays, at 8:55 am (one hour more in Gipuzkoa).
The British capital returns in this way to the offer of the Hondarribiarra aerodrome, a destination that was already available thanks to the subsidiary of British Airways the summers of 2016 and 2017. After two years of absence, everything was ready for the planes to connect both airports in the summer of 2020, but the pandemic broke these plans.
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