Ryanair departing Granada Airport

Ryanair departing Granada Airport
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By h.b. - Mar 4, 2010 - 12:21 PM

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It comes as most British tourists will be kept out of the new Terminal Three in Málaga

A difference of opinion between the Granada Provincial Government, controlled by the Socialists, and Granada City Hall, controlled by the PP, is being blamed for the departure of Ryanair services from Granada-Jaén, Federico García Lorca airport.

The argument was over the subsidy being paid to the airline and the airline says it will leave unless the 1.3 million € agreed in 2005 is paid, with the airline speaking of the ‘excessive costs’ at the airport. For now, four of the six flight destinations operated by the airline from Granada are cancelled – those are the services to London, Liverpool, Girona and Madrid.

Problems started in 2007 when the City Hall said it would not longer be paying its 15% of the payment, which was also being met by the local hoteliers federation, Chamber of Commerce, local savings banks and the company which runs the Sierra Nevada ski resort.

The company says that 28 weekly flights will be lost, along with 400 jobs and the 400,000 passengers carried through Granada by the airline will have to travel from elsewhere.

One traveller contacted Typically Spanish to say that people who have booked tickets for after May have not been informed by Ryanair that the service is ending.

Meanwhile down the road in Málaga British travellers eager to use the new Terminal Three which opens at the airport on March 16 may well be disappointed.

It follows the decision to keep most of the low-cost airlines in the current Terminal Two building.

Check in at Málaga will be as follows:-

Terminal One
Jet2.com – until the end of March when it moves to Terminal Two.

Terminal Two
Airline name and codes: OACI IATA
AER LINGUS EIN EI
AEROFLOT AFL SU
AIR TRANSAT TSC TS
ANDALUS ANU EA
BMI BMA BD
BLUE AIR JOR 0B
BMIBABY BMI WW
BULGARIA AIR LZB FB
EASYJET EZY U2
EASYJET SWITZERLAND EZS DS
FLYBE BEE BE
IBERWORLD IWD TY
KUWAIT AIRWAYS KAC KU
MONARCH AIRLINES MON ZB
RYANAIR RYR FR
THOMAS COOK UK TCX MT
THOMSON AIRWAYS TOM BY
TRANSAERO TSO UN

New Terminal Three
Nombre de la aerolínea: OACI IATA
AIGLE AZUR AAF ZI
AIR BERLIN BER AB
AIR EUROPA AEA UX
AIR FINLAND FIF OF
AIR NOSTRUM L.A.E. ANE YW
ARKEFLY TFL OR
BRITISH AIRWAYS BAW BA
BRUSSELS AIRLINES BEL SN
CIMBER STERLING CIM QI
CONDOR CFG DE
DELTA AIRLINES DAL DL
EUROPE AIRPOST FPO 5O
FINNAIR FIN AY
GERMANWINGS GWI 4U
IBERIA IBE IB
INAER HSE UV
JETAIRFLY JAF TB
LUFTHANSA DLH LH
LUXAIR LGL LG
MALEV HUNGARIAN AIRLINES MAH MA
NIKI NLY HG
NORWEGIAN AIR SHUTTLE NAX DY
PRIMERA AIR JXX GX
REGIONAL RAE YS
SAS SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES SAS SK
SPANAIR JKK JK
SWISS INTERNATIONAL AIR LINES SWR LX
TAP PORTUGAL TAP TP
THOMAS COOK BELGIUM TCW FQ
TRANSAVIA.COM TDK PH
TRAVEL SERVICE TVL QS
TUIFLY HLX X3
VUELING CLI XG

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