Easyjet based in Barcelona

Easyjet opens in Barcelona the base which closed in Madrid in 2012

Easyjet based in Barcelona

The airline EasyJet has opened its base in Barcelona, the only one in Spain and number 28 in Europe, which will have three aircraft, for which it has hired 120 new workers and that it hopes to grow this year by 7% in passenger numbers at El Prat, to 3.1 million.

The CEO of Easyjet in Spain, Javier Gándara, noted the interest of the company to grow in El Prat and its commitment to consolidating Catalunya connection with Europe through the Barcelona airport to “keep bringing tourists” and connect the world Catalan business with the rest of Europe.

New connections

The opening of the base of El Prat, which, so far, has three Airbus 320 aircraft, will open two new connections this summer, Bordeaux and Naples, increasing frequencies and enhanced connectivity of cities like Geneva or Basel, to facilitate the work business passengers.

In this regard, he explained that have agreements with agencies to continue enhanced corporate business tourism trips, which the company accounts for 20% of all travelers.

Gandara recalled that Barcelona was, along with Amsterdam, the first European airport to EasyJet flew out of the UK in 1996.

2.8 million passengers

Currently, the airline flies to Barcelona from 16 European airports, carrying over 2.8 million passengers each year and, since it operates in the city, easyJet has transported 32 million passengers, equivalent to 300 times fill the Camp Nou.

On the possibility of opening new bases in Spain, such as Madrid, Gandara said that for this year were Barcelona and Venice and new ones are being planned worldwide.

Rule out the long distance

Asked about the interest of the airline to make long-haul flights, Gándara has insisted that the company “that’s a distraction,” and, with a market share of 8%, still have a lot of development to be done in the short and medium haul, “which is what we do well.”

The opening ceremony has also been chaired by the director of the Network of Aena Aeropuertos, Fernando Echegaray, and the director of Barcelona airport, Sonia Corrochano, and has received the traditional water cannon to welcome one of the A320 based in El Prat, and the symbolic cutting of the ribbon to inaugurate the base.

In this regard, Echegaray remarked that today is an important day for the opening of this new basis for El Prat, which closed in 2015 hovering around 40 million passengers.

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The silk of Barcelona

An exhibition at the Historical Archive of the City looks back 500 years to the city silk corporations

The Arts of silk in Barcelona

Until April 30, the Historical Archives of the City hosts an exhibition which covers five centuries of silk Barcelona. The exhibition takes a chronological journey through 500 years of history and provides an overview of the origin and evolution of silk organizations, forms of corporate organization have taken the functions that have been developed and have invested resources to achieve their goals.

The exhibition, curated by Victor Mata is performed based on documentary transferred to the Historical Archives of the City of Barcelona and constitute the Archive of the College of Art Major de la Seda de Barcelona: Guild Sailing, Velluters Guild, Guild Perxers and the same (CAMS).

Five centuries of silk

Silk, sumptuous product par excellence, known in Catalonia since the Middle Ages. Business contacts between Catalan and Andalusian merchants tenth century are the first known evidence of professional dedication around the silk. A royal provision of Peter the Great, the last third of the thirteenth century, for the first time regulates the silk activity in Barcelona.

At that time, most of the silk artisans were part of the Jewish community in Barcelona, ​​so it is not organized as a corporation engaged in trade or municipal government institutions. The rise of the fourteenth century silks pushes the Consell de Cent Barcelona authorize some ordinances regulating the sale of silk. The pogrom and expulsion of Jews from Barcelona in 1391 is a turning point in the world silk city, because the main human group that disappears represents.

In the mid-fifteenth century silks experiencing a revival since the formation of small factories and companies engaged in the production and trade of manufactured products, which strengthens the bases of the process of creating institutional seven guilds silks of Barcelona which began in the late fifteenth century and lasted until the early seventeenth century: millinery needle (1495) Perxers (1509) Sailboats (1533) Velluters (1548) Passamaners (1572) torcedor ( 1619), Dyers (1619).

Most of these unions disappear root of a process that began in 1834 and resolves the decree of 20 December 1836 that ends the union organizations in Spain. They survive only as advocacy organizations or interest groups as mutual work. This is the case of the College of Art Major of the silk of Barcelona (CAMS) born in April 1834 from the merger of the unions sailboats and Velluters.

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