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Only about two months after its inaugural flight to Paris, Air Asturias has announced that it is to cease its activities on 26th January 2007.

(Europa Press 17/01/2007 20:19h)

Asturias-Brussels now appear to be bookable on the Air Asturias website.

It appears that flights commence Friday 2nd March 2007 and there will be flights twice a week, on Fridays and Mondays.

For example a weekend in Asturias on the inaugural flight for you Brussels folk...

Friday, 2 March 2007 ...

I don't think AENA is responsible directly, but both AENA and the regulators that are responsible for licencing Air Madrid do seem to come under the same Civil Aviation directorate of the Ministry of Development ('Ministerio de Fomento'). It is this directorate that is coming in for a lot of ...

Airbus is going through some turbulence, with the high euro against the dollar and the need for a huge amount of investment capital to develop the A350, Airbus is looking around for capital and for cheaper places outside Europe to manufacture.

With all this uncertainty the story of Iberia buying ...

According to the Spanish press, one reason why Air Madrid suffered frequent delays was that their published flight times were different from their actual take-off slot times. So flights were more attractive and easier to sell, but a delay was inevitable.

According to the Spanish press yesterday ...

What's in the press is still a bit vague, although if they are planning to start flights at the end of October the details ought to become clearer quite soon.

Air Asturias have said all along that they are not going to be a low cost carrier along the lines of EasyJet and Ryanair, but price them ...

Well, the latest according to press reports is that Air Asturias will start putting tickets on sale this month (September 2006) for flights commencing October 2006.

Initial routes from Asturias Airport (OVD) will be:

- Rome
- Milan
- Lisbon

The frequency to each of these destinations will be four ...

Hi Duchen

I don't think Air Asturias has it's office set up yet, although they have announced that it will be in the town of Aviles, which is next door to Asturias Airport (they have also announced that they are planning to build a 4 star hotel there as well).

In the meantime your best bet is ...

An update on developments at Air Asturias...

Today, 27th January, 'Air Asturias' officially presented itself to the public at the Madrid Internation Tourism Fair (Fitur 2006). It announced that it will begin low cost flights this spring to Spanish, European and intercontinental destinations. It ...

Hi, Just to clarify...

I went to the site of Air Asturias, a weird site if you ask me

The company "Asturias Airlines S.A." was only incorporated about 10/07/2005, so they haven't got their site up and running yet. I included the link as a 'watch this space' 8O .

I think this is a story with ...

The creation of a new airline, " Air Asturias " has been announced. The majority shareholder is Gijon, Asturias based hotel group Celuisma, who were also one of the founding shareholders of Air Madrid, although they subsequently sold their holding in that airline.

Initially they plan daily flights ...