Mallorca Live features acts including Jessie J, Dizzee Rascal, Tinie Tempah, Example, Labrinth, Professor Green, Wretch 32 and Rizzle Kicks and runs every Sunday evening from June 17th until September 9th.
X Factor’s Tulisa is the latest act to be confirmed. She will perform new material from her debut solo album, featuring her number one single Young at the BCM Square in Magalluf followed by an evening performance at Eden in Ibiza.
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Passengers departing from Alicante Airport can view “LVER III” in the boarding area which is the work of Miguel Angel Campano. It is an oil on canvas 6.30 metres long and 2.90 metres high.
With the installation of this piece, the new terminal expands its impressive art collection of works by Eusebio Sempere, José Manuel Ciria, John Genovese, Raul and Jose Maria Subirachs Belinchón.
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Tascon specialise in good quality shoes and leather goods and a new shop has opened in Terminal 1 at Madrid Airport today. Tascon already has a shop in Terminal 4.
The new retail outlet is in the non-Schengen departure area of T1 and is open every day from 6:30 am until 23:00 pm. Tascon sells goods by companies including Armand Basi, Clarks, Timberland, Lotus and Camper.
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The Spanish Airport Authority (Aena) has installed magnetic induction loops to improve accessibility for the hearing impaired. 250 computers have been installed with both fixed and portable induction systems with headsets that allow the user to receive clear information.
To use this service the hearing aid wearer should go to a point of care at the airport (identified with a blue sign with the international hearing aids symbol “T” position) located at information desks and service counters to assist passengers with reduced mobility. The user can capture all information provided by placing the headset in position “T”.
Aena airports also have an Information Service and Telephone Answering that has a specific line for hearing impaired passengers and / or speaking. This service allows users with disabilities to contact the Information Service and Telephone Service from your mobile phone, in text mode and in real time.
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The new oval motor racing circuit in Cartagena, Murcia, is now open and ready for use. The last section of track has been laid and new barriers erected for the official opening on May 13th. Oval/short Circuit Racing is motor sport performed within a flat circuit of up to approx 365m in circumference which differs from a road course in that it turns in one direction only and all the turns are very fast.
This is the first short Oval Circuit in Spain and will be something new for the Spanish, who have never experienced stock car or banger racing.
To find the new circuit take the AP7 Towards Cartagena turn off at Junction 800 and then take E15/ AP7 towards Murcia & Almeria Junction 812 to Santa Anna and follow the Velocity V’s.
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The new Iberia Express service began operations from Madrid Airport on 25th March and has already flown into Palma de Mallorca 206 times handling 115,000 passengers.
The airline starts operating five new routes this week from Madrid including flights to the other Balearic Islands of Menorca and Ibiza.
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If you are spending the May bank holiday in Spain, hiring a car and staying in Alicante watch your speed if you are driving in the city centre. There are four new speed cameras in operation on Avenidas La Goleta, Universidad, Denia and Villajoyosa.
The speed limit is 50km/h except in La Goleta where it is 40km/h.
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A number of new routes from Spanish airports have been launched over the high summer season. All the flights below have started operating over the last few days:
Volotea has expanded its base in Venice with seven new destinations including Alicante, Bilbao, Malaga and Santiago de Compostela in Spain. They fly twice a week with the frequency being increased to three times a week to Alicante and Malaga from late June.
Vueling now flys from its Barcelona base to the West-Frisian city of Groningen in Germany twice weekly on Tuesdays and Saturdays. During the high-season between 28th June and 13th September there will be an additional flight on Thursdays.
Air Europa flys from Madrid to Geneva in Switzerland twice-daily (except on Saturdays when only one flight operates).
Lufthansa has increased its flights to Düsseldorf in Germany and also offers seasonal services to Malaga and Westerland on the North Sea Isle of Sylt twice weekly. Air Berlin also flys on both routes, providing 11 weekly services on the domestic route and nine weekly flights to the Malaga Costa del Sol Airport.
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The budget airline Ryanair has released details of the passenger losses suffered by Alicante El Altet Airport since they cut their flights after failing to reach agreement with Aena over the imposition of air bridges and increased passenger charges.
For the five months from November 2011 to March 2012 the Irish Airline says that 236,000 fewer Ryanair passengers have used the airport. Other airlines have also cut their passenger numbers by over 32,000.
Ryanair claim that AENA Alicante with its high charges and air bridges, are turning away not just Ryanair’s low fare passengers, but also the traffic of other airlines. AENA claimed that other airlines would make up for Ryanair’s traffic loss.
Ryanair said: “It is not too late for Alicante to withdraw this air bridge policy and allow Ryanair to return to walk on/walk off boarding procedures which applied to all Ryanair flights at Alicante from 2007 until 2011. If they don’t then AENA Alicante will continue to lose routes, traffic and jobs through their own mismanagement”.
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The Spanish government has intervened to help resolve the dispute between Iberia and its pilots over the new Iberia Express, imposing a compulsory arbitration order on both parties. This means that strike action every Monday and Friday by members of the SEPLA Pilots union was immediately suspended.
Since last December 2011 the pilots have staged 12 days of strike action, with additional action planned every Monday and Friday until July 20th. The Spanish tourism sector was increasingly alarmed by the negative effects of the ongoing strike, and urged “forceful” government intervention.
The government action is permitted by Spanish law and is intended to end a strike that is costing significant revenue and adversely impacting customers. Iberia have reinstated flights cancelled on future planned strike days and said it was pleased the SEPLA pilots union had called off the strike. So far the 12 strike days are estimated to have cost the airline around €36 million euros.
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