Jerez Airport to Increase Flights from Spring 2007

Jerez de la Frontera's international airport (La Parra) is planning to expand its flight programme from March next year. The airport is making the most of the current battle between Spain's airlines as well as the growing interest shown by foreign tour operators in the Costa de la Luz. New destinations include Manchester in the UK, and Scandinavian cities and there will also be more flights direct from Jerez to Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao. The new direct link between Jerez and Manchester is due to the expansion of Monarch Airlines into the province of Cadiz. The firm is already selling tickets for the service which will start to operate on March 25th. There will be four flights a week.

Meanwhile the volume of domestic flights from Jerez is also expected to increase significantly over the next year. After operating a link to Madrid from the terminal for the last year and a half, the company Spanair plans to start running two return flights a day between Jerez and Barcelona from May 2007 and Spanair has also announced a daily flight from Jerez to Bilbao. Furthermore both Iberia and Spanair face new competition on the Jerez-Madrid route with the introduction of the company Vueling, which has announced that its flights between La Parra and the capital will start next year. Currently an average of 1,200 passengers fly between Jerez and Madrid every day.