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djfwells
11th Jan 2012, 20:14
Yet another final flight from yet another failing spanish airport ....
Badajoz Airport Closure (http://www.tumbit.com/news/articles/4589-badajoz-airport-closure.html)

jabird
11th Jan 2012, 20:43
A shame, that one had at least been around a while, not one of the new white elephant ports.

Hollymead
13th Mar 2012, 11:28
Helit to start , MAD, BCN and AGP from March 25th .

jabird
14th Mar 2012, 19:57
Hmm, is there any kind of PSO scheme in Spain? BJZ is well out of the way. I could understand if ZAZ was struggling when the AVE brings it so much closer to BCN & MAD, but BJZ is a good 5 1/2hrs by rail / similar drive to MAD, air links are pretty useful!

Cyrano
14th Mar 2012, 22:31
Lots of Spanish PSOs but mostly to/from Canaries and Balearics. Full list of European PSOs (slightly out of date) here (PDF) (http://ec.europa.eu/transport/air/internal_market/doc/2009_12_pso-eu_and_eea.pdf).

jabird
14th Mar 2012, 22:35
Full list of European PSOs (slightly out of date)

Jeez, all 940 pages? I'm tired enough as it is, next time I have a restless night I'll know where to go!:ouch:

Cyrano
15th Mar 2012, 08:44
Jeez, all 940 pages? I'm tired enough as it is, next time I have a restless night I'll know where to go!:ouch:

No, really, you're welcome, no need to thank me. ;)

I note that of the 940 pages only the first 47 actually have writing on them. Perhaps the 893 blank pages are reserved for future expansion of the PSO system... :hmm:

racedo
15th Mar 2012, 08:46
I note that of the 940 pages only the first 47 actually have writing on them. Perhaps the 893 blank pages are reserved for future expansion of the PSO system... http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:www.pprune.org/get/images/smilies/yeees.gif

The extra 893 pages are part of the EU's plan to cut waste......

Force you to print 940 for 10 years then claim a huge success in saying that now you only need to print 47 pages and how wonderful they are :rolleyes:

compton3bravo
15th Mar 2012, 10:37
Can I humbly remind you lot in the UK that Badajoz is not out of the way as some people suggest - just because it is not near the Costas! It is in a beautiful part of real Spain and very close to the Portuguese border. A very good road to Lisbon but the one drawback is that it has poor connections to the Algarve. Badajoz is actually a military airfield and has a small terminal and hopefully the new operator which has a lower operating base than Air Nostrum can make a go of the routes.

Tom the Tenor
15th Mar 2012, 14:53
I was in Badajoz for about ten to twelve days some years ago and at the time there was one or two coach services per day to Lisbon one of which used leave Badajoz around midnight if my memory serves me correctly.

I can concur that Badajoz is indeed a lovely little Spanish city - there was a lot of development going on when I was there and I seem to recall a very old building was being done up to be the new law faculty of the university. I remember the plans impressing me anyway.

Good luck to Helitt - I hope they will not turn out to be a route prover for Ryanair. I think Barcelona or Girona to Badajoz would work pretty well in a Ryanair type operation. The motorway road journey to Madrid does indeed take about 4 hours and in my case at least the train was a lot longer! Maybe it was the slow train!

jabird
15th Mar 2012, 18:33
Can I humbly remind you lot in the UK that Badajoz is not out of the way as some people suggest - just because it is not near the Costas! It is in a beautiful part of real Spain and very close to the Portuguese border.

c3b - nothing to do with the Costas, it is still a small city with a limited tourist draw. Spain already has many places which are either inland (the Andalusian greats of Seville-Cordoba-Granada etc, not to mention many smaller towns which are also very popular - Ronda, Jaen etc) or on the north coast, well away from the crowds.

Mainland Spain has many great cities and I can proudly say I have visited most of them. Sorry, but Badajoz has never been on my bucket list, and if I was going back to Spain next week, I still wouldn't go there as there's quite a bit of the northwest I haven't done yet.

Wht Badajoz clearly does have is some population and few other alternative airports in the area unless you go to Lisbon. Logically, this should be able to support turboprop ops for the right operator. Ryanair used to be able to go into these markets on the basis that they could drop the starting prices to €0.01 and only server the route a couple of times each week. Badajoz must primarily be a domestic market, and that is better served by at least a daily rotation, hence Ryanair not having enough (ie 0) Q400s or equivalent to go in there.