Low Cost Flights Make Up Half of Malaga Arrivals

Easyjet, Monarch and Air Berlin now bring half the arrivals to Malaga airport. Thanks to the no-frills airlines some 800,000 extra seats to Malaga are on offer this summer. It means an expected 7.5% growth in passenger numbers this year to take the total over the 3 million passengers on low cost airlines alone. Now only 20% of arrivals in Malaga are on charter flights.

More Land for the Second Runway at Malaga Airport

Land the size of 200 football pitches is to be acquired for the construction of Malaga airport's second runway. Last week, the airport operator Aena published a list of 527 properties covering two million square metres which it will have to acquire to build the extra runway. The properties include apartments, parking areas, cultivated and irrigated land, roads, railways and undeveloped countryside. Most of the acquisitions fall within the municipality of the city of Málaga. The extra runway is expected to be operational by 2010.

Heavy Rain in Spain

Malaga province suffered its worst weather for 60 years last Wednesday. An overnight cloudburst, which fell in the area of Antequera last week, has been calculated to have caused 1.5 million € worth of damage. Roads were flooded and there were mud slides in some areas. The village of Cuevas Bajas was most affected when 40 litres per square metre fell at 2.00 am causing a local river to burst its banks. Crops and greenhouses were affected in the area. In Granada province too the A-92 road was closed for a time together with several minor roads.

Spain's Popularity Continues

Up to one in five Britons and a third of Germans are considering retiring to Spain. This is according to a new survey by property consultants King Sturge who carried out the study, interviewing several hundred Britons and Germans over 50.

Twenty-two percent of Britons said they were considering moving to Spain, while 35% of Germans said they had also considered it. Healthcare and social services facilities are all part of packages offered by many estate agents in Spain. The survey also found that 44% of Britons and 34% of Germans said this would attract them to retire in Spain.

Source Cristina Sanchez
1Casa News from Spain - No. 78 2006