Airasia in Barcelona airport

The leading low cost airline in Asia has chosen the Catalan city to operate flights to Europe again

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AirAsia airline landing in Barcelona with a new intercontinental flight. The company, a leader in Asia in low-cost, scheduled from October a new route linking the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, with Barcelona with a daily flight. That’s right: the flight will stop in Turkey.

Airasia, directed by Tony Fernandes, is the largest airline cheap flights from Asia, something like Ryanair the eastern continent. Founded in 1993 in Kuala Lumpur, the staff of the company more than 17,000 employees and has more than 80 destinations on the continent. But it also has various airlines ‘low cost’ regional affiliates, of which owns part of the capital (Indonesia AirAsia, Thai AirAsia, Philippines AirAsia, Indonesia AirAsia X, Thai AirAsia X, AirAsia India), and a subsidiary of long-haul flights, AirAsia X. in total, it has more than 150 aircraft.

Airasia X’s subsidiary which handles long-haul flights. Among its shareholders are AirAsia own, Richard Branson (Virgin) and Air Canada, among others. The company currently operates flights to Abu Dhabi (UAE), Adelaide and Auckland (Australia), Beijing and Shanghai (China), Busan (South Korea), Christchurch (New Zealand), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Delhi (India) Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) and Tokyo (Japan), among other cities. However, the company does not operate flights to Europe. He had tried, with routes to London and Paris from Kuala Lumpur, which had to cancel in 2012 by the then high price of oil.

Now, however, he has decided to return to Europe, and it will betting on Barcelona. The firm has introduced in the booking system of travel (GDS) daily flight Kuala Lumpur-Istanbul-Barcelona (ie, the ship will stop in Turkey) from 30 October 2016.Will depart Malaysia at 15.00 hours local time and arrive in Barcelona at 19.20 hours. From Barcelona, the aircraft will depart at 20.50 hours, arriving in Kuala Lumpur the next day at 19.30. It will operate the route with an A330-300 aircraft with a configuration of 12 seats bed Premium and 365 economy class seats.

Tickets are not on sale yet, but the route already on the map of destinations of the company. However, AirAsia X has released a note which says it has no “immediate” plans to operate this route and attributed the appearance of the path on your system to an “internal test”. Other industry sources say it is likely that a permit for the missing flight, and therefore do not want public, but assume interest.

If confirmed, Barcelona win thus a new intercontinental flight to Asia. The Far East currently flights to Beijing (Air China, stopping in Vienna (Austria) and Singapore (Singapore Airlines).

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Traditional Chinese Medicine in Barcelona

The Government signed an agreement with the Beijing government to boost its creation in Catalonia

Traditional Chinese Medicine in Barcelona

The Beijing government has chosen Catalonia to create the first center of traditional Chinese medicine outside Asia. The Generalitat signed on January 27 an agreement with a consortium of Chinese companies and research centers and hospitals, the Beijing Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, led by the Beijing government to boost the creation of this center, which would be Europe’s largest of its kind.

Company sources and Knowledge Department report that the downtown location is still unknown. “Barcelona is one of the options, but there are other possible locations. What is certain is that it will be in Catalonia, “say sources of the department.

For its part, the European Foundation of Traditional Chinese Medicine, who attended the launch of the project last January 28 in the auditorium of Faculty of Medicine at the University of Barcelona (UB), said that the center “will or yes in Barcelona city but do not know exactly where, “and involve an investment of” 80 million euros “. Since the Government does not want to talk about figures and say that the project is still “under negotiation”.

The project includes the launch of an official master for physicians interested in traditional Chinese medicine, to be conducted in collaboration between UB and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing. This master will the arrival of new students Catalunya internationally, according to the Department of Enterprise and Knowledge directed Jordi Baiget.

The initiative also entail the creation of new lines of research related to this field of medicine, and a cultural center that is responsible for the spread of this discipline as well as the opening of an institute for care and support and recognition use of herbs using traditional Chinese medicine.

The aim is to apply “Western scientific knowledge to validate the principles and applications of traditional Chinese medicine,” according to the Government. “It is very positive news. It’s not only a breakthrough in traditional medicine but also serve to update the regulation is outdated in Spain in this area. Also help to raise awareness of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine to collaborate with the benefit of patients, “they say from the European Foundation of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

The project has received support and advice in the area of ​​attracting foreign investments ACCIÓ and the Ministry of Universities and Research. A delegation from the Chinese consortium with which the agreement has been signed will be installed temporarily at the headquarters of ACCIÓ in Barcelona to find the most suitable location for the new center.

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