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SAN JAVIER AWARDED AS THE BEST SMALL AIRPORT IN EUROPE

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By Contributor / 2015-03-08 14:50:31

By Jorge Masot

The Airports Council International awarded San Javier airport a prize as the best European airport with fewer than 2 million passengers per year. The information was published in LaVerdad, where they interviewed the Murcia-San Javier airport director, Mr. Pedro Vicente Gallut.

This distinction has been received just as Aena, the Government of Spain and the local Government are in talks for the closure of San Javier to open Corvera.

It is surprising that San Javier continues to lose passengers and airlines despite the excellence of their services. Also, it is difficult to understand why Alicante keeps gaining travelers in the same area in spite of the fact that the prices in San Javier are cheaper. Mr. Gallut stuck to his capacities and referred back to Aena’s version: “the airlines decide where they want to fly to, despite the marketing team“. A

part from the financial crisis, there isn’t any other official explanation for the fact that San Javier lost nearly half of the users they used to have. However, the airport director thinks that this decrease has slowed down. < > said Mr. Gallut, who has been in charge of the airport since May 2013.

The transfer to Corvera

It is taboo to talk about the San Javier closure or about Corvera. The works council is mobilised to impede the closure and they refuse moving into Corvera. In the meantime, another piece in LaVerdad informs that Murcia’s Government and Aena expect to sign an agreement within a month. This agreement would mean the end of commercial flights in San Javier to give way to Corvera. Aena is determined to go ahead and are even interested in bidding for Corvera.

The plan is that the employees who are willing to move into the new airport keep the same working conditions. They will give them the possibility of working in Corvera and want this clause to be included in the tender. However, a date has not been fixed for this tender yet. According to this article, the president of Murcia, Alberto Garre said that Aeromur – the company owned by Sacyr which had the license to manage Corvera – is causing problems regarding providing Corvera’s inventory in order to define the terms and conditions of the tender. Two requirements have been sent for this purpose, but nothing has been received so far. In the opinion of Murcia’s Government, it will not be possible to open Corvera this year because of these problems and they are considering going to courts.

Six companies are interested in the management of Corvera

Despite the difficulties Sacyr is causing, sources of the local Government say that there are six companies interested in the contract for the management. LaOpinionDeMurcia informs that there are six companies which have shown interest for the airport. Among them are Aena, Ferrovial and Lavalin. The autonomous community and the Ministry of Development are considering a period of between two and six months for the closure of San Javier. This period of time will start counting when Corvera is operational, but the problem is that there is no date for such purpose so far.

With thanks to:H

Well, San Javier may win the small airport award but from my perspective flying there is proving expensive. 

I regularly fly there with EasyJet from LGW, but this year their prices are horrific.  Far more than to Alicante and the EasyJet price to Malaga is literally half of the cost to San Javier and it's a longer flight.

I reckon the small airport may be about to get even smaller.

Dunno if this is EasyJet being greedy as they've effectively got a monopoly, or San Javier's landing charges being out of sync, but the result is likely to be less passengers going through San Javier.

As I continually explain it is all to do with the price that AENA charge the airlines to land at San Jvier compared to Alicante

Another good piece on Murcia Today about flight numbers down yet again

Corvera airport will be a failure if they don't get the ticket price down to what Alicante are charging and as for the save san JVier. Brigade are concerned the airport will close anyway due to lack of foot traffic l voted with my feet about 5 years ago when l could get a flight to Alicante for half the price San Javier are charging the money l save flying to Alicante got me a 1 weeks car hire and l am still doing exactly that now.

Acer

Trouble is, for the moment practically all EY flights from LGW to MJV are almost full even departing at 06.40 so no need for them to reduce prices, in fact not a lot of need for them to fly there at all given the back up operation that exists in Alicante.

MJV remains for now a regional airport, the big question is how and why would Corvera compete with Alicante IF both are run by AENA. For most owners it will be a straight choice of price and ease of access to holiday home.

The long term parking guys will be the ones to benefit, as many owners have local cars now.

Some interesting thoughts Hugh Man & Windtaker - you may be right.   Since making my post a couple of days ago their prices have increased!   But RyanAir used to do the LGW - MJV route and I guess their departure may be a feature too.

Yes, the flights are invariably completely full, you've got to wonder why there are no other operators wanting to fly to LGW.  Come back RyanAir all is forgiven!

It will soon be cheaper to fly to the CDS have a might in a hotel then drive to Murcia if the prices dont drop.

already is, had custimers arrive yesterday from Dublin, flew into Madrid and drove down, Alicante €920, Madrid €170, car was cheaper to hire by €70 for a one week stay

No doubt Ryanair will be a carrier for those cheap pressured 3 day awful inspection flights  to the Costa Blanca now the agents are hyping the market again, here we go again, 'we've got people queuing round the corner', 'you cannot lose', 'your view won't go as it's a green area', 'we can flip the property for you', and not least 'all our directors and staff are buying so we will cherry pick the best plots for you'. Ha Ha

Ryan air fly to Murcia from Luton and Stanstead every day of the week in Summer

3 days a week from Birmingham, Bournmouth and Leeds/Bradford and Glasgow Prestwick

5 days a week from Manchester

most prices for April range between £25 to £40

I am flying from Bournemouth to Murcia in August with Ryanair.  Excluding luggage my basic cost for 4 people return flights was just under £500!  This is cheaper than I have had for years flying into Alicante or Murcia in peak season. So maybe San Javier prices are not so high in the Summer months.

Having spent some time investigating there are a surprising number of flight options, particularly from Alicante where there are some startlingly good deals for the silly priced months of July & August...if you are prepared to fly at 6.00 am and live with long stopovers and swapping planes, at Madrid etc.

But sad to admit it, but we've opted to keep it simple and pay the full wack and fly EasyJet, who cannot really call themselves a budget airline these days.  But they are good.

Being the eternal optimist, I'm hoping that prices might come down when Corvera opens and the full value of the fuel price reduction kicks in :).

It seems, at last, a possible face saving solution might be available for the politicians in Murcia. According to Murcia Today several companies are interested in making Corvera a freight airport. This is so that the farmers in the region can get their produce to Northern European markets far quicker than at present. For nearly everybody this will be a great way to sort out the impasse that there is at present. It will mean the one million to one and a half million passengers that want to visit the area will still be able to use MJV airport. Nobody will have to pay AENA to close MJV. The local businesses and taxi firms will continue to ply their trade. The tax payers of the region will be able to recoup some if not all of their money that has been wasted on this ego trip by certain unmentioned politicians.

So all in all this could be the end of all the hot air and column inches that have been wasted on this white elephant. Unless you know otherwise...................

Wasn't Corvera meant to be an international airport?

Surely it won't make enough profit if used to transport goods to Europe?

Interestingly, these stats from AENA seem to suggest cost per passenger at MJV are not too bad for 2014 as compared to other larger airports.

http://spanishnewstoday.com/aena-increases-profitability-although-some-spanish-airports-prove-unviable_21132-a.html?Banner=56#.VRrUBRikqrU

Perhaps the Region of Murcia needs to follow suit bringing more touriststs into their airports.

Castellón focuses on British tourists: perfect beaches, direct flights, spas, skiing and homes at rock-bottom prices 
26 August 2015 @ 14:02