The last commercial flight took off from Badajoz Airport in Spain last week, but it has escaped closure and will remain open for private aircraft.
The airport will remain closed for a year following the withdrawal of funding from Castilla-La Mancha regional government and the termination of its contract with the budget airline Vueling last October. Also the Iberia subsidiary Air Nostrum cancelled its last remaining flights between Extremadura, Madrid and Barcelona with reservations between Badajoz and Madrid 25% below expectations and those for Barcelona fell by 29%.
For the time being the airports 35 employees still have jobs while the regional government confirmed it was in talks with several companies to guarantee an airline connection for 2012.
