Madrid Barajas to be replaced in 2015
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Barajas Airport, in Madrid, Spain, is being phased out in 2015, which is at least five years earlier than originally planned. The airport's replacement will be located at Campo Real, near Valencia's highway. It will be designed for eight runways and will have a capacity of up to 120 million passengers annually. In the meantime, expansion plans, which includes a new terminal and two additional runways that will increase capacity to 60 million passengers to 60 million by 2015, will proceed as planned at Barajas.
Publication Name: Jane's Airport Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0954-7649
Year: 2000
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AENA criticises AEA punctuality report
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Spanish airports' authority AENA criticized a report ranking Madrid Barajas Airport as having the second worst punctuality rate in Europe. The report was lambasted for giving only a partial analysis. The survey, which was produced by the Assn of European Airlines, was claimed to refer only to some airlines and could not be used to judge the real function of airports. The annual report rated Madrid as second worst to Milan-Malpensa in 2000, for flights delayed by more than 15 minutes.
Publication Name: Jane's Airport Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0954-7649
Year: 2001
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Regions vow to keep control
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A lobby group was created by four regional governments of Spain that include those of Catalonia, the Canaries, the Balearics and the Basque Country, to persuade the state gvernment to allow them to run their local airports. The group expects to be supported by three more regions namely, Andalucia, Madrid and Galicia. Opposition of the lobby group contends that Spanish airports should be centrally operated since only a few are profitable.
Publication Name: Jane's Airport Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0954-7649
Year: 2000
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