Barcelona Airport new flights

In 2015, a total of 3.5 million passengers made intercontinental scale

Barcelona Airport new flights

There is a demand to open new long-haul flights from Barcelona. The Development Committee of Air Routes (CDRA) of the Catalan capital is convinced of it. This body, composed of Aena, the Generalitat, Barcelona City Council and the Chamber of Commerce, which supports data. Of the 5.6 million intercontinental travelers or from El Prat last year, only two million flew directly. The remaining 3.6 million correspond to connecting routes with other airports. Thus, the objective for the coming years is to convert some of these direct links, mainly to North America and Asia-Pacific operations being treated with airlines.

Countries identified as targets in the strategic plan 2016-2017 of the CDRA are those who already have a critical mass that justifies having direct flights. Tokyo tops, which last year had 164,385 passengers to or from the Catalan capital, all indirect. In Seoul, only 12,447 traveled nonstop by 139,188 they did with connection. There are nine other airports intercontinental destinations with more than 50,000 annual passengers flying via other citieslong.

President CDRA and secretary of Infrastructures and Mobility of the Generalitat, Ricard Font, moved that the main efforts focus on opening direct flights to California (San Francisco or Los Angeles), Boston and Tokyo, although he acknowledged it will not be easy because although there is demand to justify the operation from the commercial point of view, airlines may not have enough planes to meet these routes.

In any case, the CDRA has been proposed that within two years Barcelona enter the group of the 42 major global airports with more than 10,000 passengers daily intercontinental routes (direct and indirect flights). El Prat current-mind has about 8,000. A tool that can help position the Catalan capital in this market long haul is that Barcelona will host in September next year, the World Routes Forum, an event that has the participation of airlines around the world year . also it wants to grow in cargo freight, transport interests the great Eastern customers. Synergies with cruises and intermodality with train are other aspects that are to continue strengthening.

Those responsible for the CDRA did yesterday balance of the first ten years of the agency, which was created to capture new intercontinental routes. At that time, this radio traffic El Prat has doubled from 2.2 million to 5.6 million travelers and 17 to 34 destinations, with some as prominent as Dubai, Banjul, Singapore and Bogota. Passengers on direct flights have increased sixfold, from 345 thousand to 2 million, the weekly frequencies have tripled (from 72 to 234) and seats offered, quintupled (from 324,000 to 1,600,000 per year).

The airport director, Sonia Corrochano, recalled that last year the absolute record of passengers (39.7 million), up 5% from 2014 and further growth of long-haul (+ 12%) fought. In the first quarter of 2016, the trend continues to rise (+ 16% in total passengers and + 17% on intercontinental routes).

The main novelties for this summer season are increased frequencies Montreal and Toronto (Air Canada and Air Transcat), New York (Delta) and a new Washington (United). Also they grow Tel Aviv (Al) and increases the ability to Dubai (Emirates). TAM increases frequencies to Sao Paulo and opens Ryanair flight to Marrakech. In addition, Vueling, opens route to Constantine (Algeria) and Cape Verde and increases frequencies to Algiers, Oran, Tangier and Tel Aviv.

 

Roca brothers & UN

The brothers of El Celler de Can Roca have given a speech in defense of sustainability at the UN

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The brothers of El Celler de Can Roca became yesterday in the first goodwill ambassadors of the United Nations within the program of support of sustainable development, with an eye toward 2030 and the ambitious goal of helping to eradicate hunger world. “World leaders have become aware of the need to set dates and begin a program in which we will be advisors on matters of feeding, work on specific projects, starting with Nigeria, with a program to improve the process of growing, processing and food preservation. The problems of poor conservation are poor because in places spoiling the food runs out. ” Aware that there is much work to be done and happy to contribute their grain of sand, the largest of the Roca brothers explained the importance of the challenge presented to them shortly before traveling to New York. “We are fortunate to have the equipment of the farmhouse and entities with whom we collaborate and, as Irta and the Alicia Foundation.”

Josep Roca has been asked to deliver, on behalf of the three brothers, the speech in which he talked about cooking, tradition, creativity, commitment, sustainability and justice, which has followed a panel discussion on sustainability . “We come from a family history from a humble place. The memories of our childhood know immigration, poverty and discrimination; the bar of our fathers has been a lesson of generosity, hospitality and solidarity. Our youth odors emanating from pots, pans and steaming pots of recipes totem. We lived the food as essential to our lives. ”

Importance of food

The kitchen, explained in his talk was “our life, livelihood, entertainment, dialogue, creativity, emotion and memory of our ancestors.” The brothers have remembered that what we eat “affects our health, it affects our economy and affects our planet” and told that when they knew the intention of the United Nations to initiate a new era of cooperation with the developing new targets for Sustainable Development (ODS) clearly saw the great opportunity for ambitious proposal. “We live the most extraordinary moment of the kitchen. Representing countries, identities, cultures, promotion, expansion, sample territory. It is an opportunity that from our side we should take advantage of cooks: from the kitchen Adopt a code of ethics and responsibility back to society what society gives us. ” The chefs, they said, are clear about the role of cook with consciousness. “We know the role that we live in the kitchen is specious. The group of cooks is leading with great honesty. The ethical horizon of gastronomy expands from the focal point of light recognition toward the stool of the famine and the most basic needs in this joint venture we started with the United Nations, we are ambassadors also of all chefs “.

Girona brothers have pledged to bring creativity, commitment, honesty, responsibility, honesty, respect, friendship, tolerance, learning, achievement and solidarity. “We want to be active in promoting change in direction that our society needs: culinary research in the service of poverty, because the service of intuition; so creative that calculable; power in the service of love; service having to be. ”

Defense preserving ancient seeds

In his speech also they expressed concern over the neglect of native crops and neglect of culinary traditions, which attributed the generation of poverty and exclusion and have located the introduction of new crop varieties as the most important cause of this massive loss diversity of native species and seeds. “Diversity is not only under attack monocultures, but also of monopolies. Industrial agriculture promotes the use of monocultures by their need to maintain centralized control over production and distribution of food “control. From the kitchen of diversity, they wanted to appeal to the defense of the conservation of ancient seeds and the fight for monopolies on seeds and industrialized food systems do not proliferate unabated. “It may be a chimera, but not overflow the us this dream. The food industry, from production to distribution, consumption and conservation, should not be a threat to sustainability, but a source of sustainable development. ”

The brothers explained that participate in culinary training programs, establishing a network of training centers intended to inject dynamism, inclusion and sustainability in the food industry. “Participating in initiatives to promote environmental awareness, reducing crop residues and trying to improve market conditions for farmers and small agricultural enterprises.” Josep Roca posed the challenge of achieving socially just and environmentally sustainable economically inclusive food chain to ensure access to food for all people and concluded with a commitment to help fight for the rights of people in need. “We will defend the true ecological democracy and environmental justice. The goal for the next 30 years must be to build and cook for a more egalitarian society. ”

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International Airport Barcelona El Prat-2015

Barcelona Airport (El Prat) closed its best year ever with 39.7 million passengers

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El Prat airport has no roof and closed the best year in its history. The data released today by Aena passenger traffic over 2015 proves it. The thrust of tourism in the Catalan capital, the establishment of new airlines and new routes have allowed in recent years the number of passengers grows steadily.

So, last year closed with 39,711,276 passengers, representing an increase of 5.7% compared to August 2014, with more than four million passengers, was the best stretch of the annual assembly.

The main increase occurred in the segment of international traffic, with 6.7% more. The largest increase occurred in the Latin American market with 21.7%; followed by the Middle East with 19.5%, and North America, with 10%.

Meanwhile, domestic traffic closed with growth of 3.2%. Aena has stressed that all markets grew in number of passengers during 2015, except in countries outside the European Union and Schengen, because of the decline of the Russian market.

Parallel to the increase in the number of passengers also increased the volume of operations at the airport, with a total of 288,878 movements, 1.8% more than in 2014. As for freight traffic during 2015, the airport recorded goods transported 117,219, 14.1% more than in 2014.

International Freight outside the European Union ended the year with an increase of 25.6%; load within the European Union grew by 3.5%, while domestic cargo fell 4.3%.
Exports increased by 18.4% and imports grew by 10.1%, with Germany, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and the United States the main countries with which load connections are established from El Prat.

 

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