Ryanair announced today that it has pulled out of creating an air base in Fuerteventura, due to the ‘impossibility’ of extending the opening hours of the airport. The representative of the Irish low cost carrier, Luis Fernández-Mellado, said ‘unfortunately, the limitations of Fuerteventura’s airport mean that it is not feasible to launch an operation on [...]
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Ryanair to cover dropped Canaries air routes
Posted by Canaries News on January 27th, 2011
Michael Crawley, vicepresident of the low cost airline Ryanair, has not only offered to cover the routes of any airline that leaves the Canary Islands, but he has said that he will enusre that the replaced flights will have a greater capacity and be cheaper. This comes after the ‘incentives’ offered by the Canarian government [...]
Ryanair offers Madrid-Fuerteventura flights for €5
Posted by Canaries News on March 27th, 2010
Ryanair celebrates launching its new Madrid-Fuerteventura line by offering 1.000.000 flights at only €5 each (one way, tax included). The offer is limited to people buying tickets from this Saturday until modnight on Monday for flights between 12th April until 31st of May 2010. The new route starts tomorrow (28th March 2010) and will fly [...]
Air traffic increase this summer
Posted by Canaries News on March 14th, 2010
Air traffic is set to increase by 17% this summer according to recent figures released. Over 17.000.000 seats have been reserved by tour operators and airlines over this years summer period. Tenerife has 6.937.340 seats (4.709.209 for the south and 1.846.602 for Los Rodeos) which is 39% of the air traffic for the islands. These [...]
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Tags: air traffic, passengers, ryanair, tourism 
No Comments »Ryanair ‘Abandons’ Tourists On Fuerteventura
Posted by Canaries News on February 22nd, 2010
Over 100 tourists travelling on a Ryanair flight from Bristol to Lanzarote ended up on the wrong Canary Island last week. As stormy weather forced their pilot to touch down on the neighbouring island of Fuerteventura instead. The disgruntled passengers were victims of the heavy rains and high winds that lashed the Canary Islands last [...]
Posted in Fuerteventura, Lanzarote Tags: flights, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, ryanair, tourists No Comments »
