More than 26 Million Road, Train and Plane Trips Will Be Recorded in Just Two Weeks during the Christmas holidays, one of the intense travel and tourism periods OF THE Year, With The Panrama A Little Clearer After The Call Has Been Suspended planned strike in Iberia’s ground services, also called ‘handling’.
The General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) foresees almost 20 million trips and for this purpose it will enable its special device from 3:00 p.m. this Friday until next January 7.
Renfe and Iberia will offer more than six million seats in these two weeks, with reinforcements of trains, especially in destinations to Levante and the north, and flights to European capitals, mainly.
During the central days of this Christmas there was a threat of a strike in Iberia’s handling, announced by UGT and CCOO in protest at the subrogation of workers in other companies in eight of the most important airports in the country (except Madrid) after that Iberia lost the contest called by Aena. For the moment, the panorama has cleared and the parties continue negotiating.
Renfe has more than five million seats planned for travel from this Friday until January 8, with the reinforcement of its usual offer on the most popular AVE, Avlo, Alvia, Euromed, Intercity and Media Distancia trains.
The most requested destinations are Andalusia, Catalonia, the Valencian Community, Galicia and the north of the country thanks, in large part, to the newly launched high speed to Asturias, according to the company.
Added to this is the offer of public service trains, which on medium-distance routes link the entire peninsula, with special emphasis on Avant and Regional services.
The other two high-speed rail operators will maintain their usual offer: Iryo – with links between Madrid and the Catalan, Levantine and Andalusian corridors – has 620 operations planned between this Thursday and New Year’s Day, with 285,820 seats.
Ouigo, which operates in the same corridors except in Andalusia, estimates that it will put 282,000 seats on sale between today and January 7.
One million seats
Iberia has reinforced its programming with 30 additional flights on the routes with the highest demand and, together, it will offer more than 5,000 flights and almost 1.1 million seats, with London, Paris, New York and Rovaniemi (Finland) among the most popular destinations. defendants.
Specifically, between December 21 and January 8, it will operate 5,082 flights, with reinforcement of the routes with the highest demand. To the four daily flights that connect Madrid with Frankfurt, two extra frequencies are added (December 22 and January 8), and two more on the Madrid-Munich (December 22 and January 6), and Madrid-Zurich ( December 23 and January 8).
The increase in flights for these dates is completed with a new frequency between Brussels and Madrid (December 21) and another between Geneva and Madrid (December 23).
Among the most sought after destinations are other European capitals such as London, where Iberia offers 16 daily flights (eight of them operated directly by Iberia); Paris, with 11 frequencies, and Vienna, with three daily frequencies.
To this list we must add New York, one of the North American destinations preferred by travelers to celebrate Christmas. Iberia operates two direct flights daily between Madrid and that city.
The star destination for Iberia on these dates is Rovaniemi, capital of the Finnish province of Lapland, where it flies from December 2 to February 10 with two weekly frequencies, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, with almost 7,000 seats.
Aena foresees more than 81,000 air operations
Aena foresees 81,157 operations between this Friday and January 7, 7.5% more than last year, although below the 87,531 in 2019, before the pandemic, but it must be taken into account that then the calculation period It was two more days because of how the holidays fell.
The busiest day this season will be this Friday, with 5,437 operations; followed by January 7, with 5,316. There will also be over 5,000 movements tomorrow Saturday and on December 29 and 30
The Adolfo Suárez-Madrid Barajas airport will count almost 17,100 operations until the end of Christmas, almost 2,800 more than last year, and the Barcelona-El Prat airport, almost 14,000.
They are followed in volume of operations by Gran Canaria, with 6,300; Malaga, with 6,250; and Palma de Mallorca, with 5,100.
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