Starting on the 30th of September, the charter company, Transvia, will provide two direct flights a week between Granada and Amsterdam.
This is thanks to an accord reached at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit 2024, held in the Barceló Granada Congress hotel between yesterday and today with over 200 representatives present from airlines around the world and the tourism industry.
Some of the speakers at the event were Luis Gallego (IAG), Eddie Wilson (Ryanair), Antony Douglas (Riyadh Air) Sonja Arnórsdóttir (PLAY Airline) Martin Gauss (airBaltic) Zita Schellekens (KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) and Marcel de Nooijer (Transavia).
The Junta de Andalucía was represented by Yolanda de Aguilar who is the Secretary General for Tourism.
The lead event at the CAPA’s 2024 global summit series, the Airline Leader Summit – Airlines in Transition, examines the most challenging aspects of the global aviation recovery as air travel exits the pandemic era.
Getting back to the said flights, the Dutch airline, Transavia will use its Boeing 737-800 with room for 200 passsengers. The airline is not new to Granada Airport as it operated flights intermittently from there between 2007 and 2011 with flight connections to París (Orly).
(News/Noticias: Granada Airport, Granada, Andalucia9
Wasn’t there an idea floated around last year about both France and Spain banning all flight that were less the 2.5hrs in duration, trying to get people to use cars or trains? Or did that idea not take off or was grounded. ?