corvera airport

If they shut SanJavier, Easyjet will have to land somewhere! lol

Surely the fact that EasyJet have published their flight schedules up to early Summer 2014 has little relevance to Corvera's possible opening.  EasyJet will have agreed terms and a have contract with San Javier and will only consider a change at some further time in the future, if indeed there is ever a choice available.

Inspectahome - you say ..."we will only know when something is announced formally"... I wish it were that simple in Spain.   I reckon we will only really know when planes actually start landing there!

I think they are hanging on until the US/Nato need full use of the airbase after they've attacked Syria. As a 1st strike base all the private traffic would have to stop,everyything  moves to Corvera, Aena get nothing; job done.

Actually this isnt quite correct because if commercially the situation is forced on the carrier, if for example AENA end up operating the airport, possibly in some form of partnership with the current franchise owner, as the press seems to now indicate, San Javier will close, then I asume that the person will have the choice of a refund or transfer or even fly to Alicante, even further than San Javier

We will only know when something is announced formally

Whilst the Spanish press are publishing that Corvera will open early(ish) 2014 I do not believe that the likes of easyJet, Jet2 et al will take bookings up to, in the case of Jet2 September 2014, and then have to refund the money for these bookings if MJV will be closed. Unlike  Spanish businesses, International business do care about costs and with the allegedy small profits from flights  they can not afford to have the hassel of changing destinations and all the additional costs involved with moving from one airport to another. 

As most 'low cost' airlines do not really care where they fly to just so long as they can fill the seats this might mean that they will look elsewhere to fly their planes. This then might mean that both airports will fail as the airlines will not use either as Corvera will probably charge higher landing fees than MJV so will go elsewhere.

Maybe both airports will operate for a short time and then at maybe the end of the season move from "a" to "b". It just gets messier and messier.

Only time will tell and no matter how much hot air is expended here what will happen will happen

You need to be reading the local and national Spanish press to become aware of what is happening with the airport as there have been 2 significant announcements over the last week and it isnt really fair to put a link in to another site, but the following link is to Lavidad newspaper and just use Goole Translate to read

http://www.laverdad.es/murcia/v/20130907/region/ballesta-dice-tramite-para-20130907.html

Normally it doesnt matter where the flght is booked to if an airline changes, or is forced to change, the destination airport

It is interesting to note that easyJet are now taking bookings to San Javier airport up to mid June 2014 so therefore easyJet will not be using Corvera at least up till then, if ever!

One must assume that Corvera will be yet another unused airport in Spain

Locals (Brits) on the ground in Los Alcazares and surrounding area appear to doubt that Corverra will open any time soon. I am not sure where/what the source of the info was - but they do regular trips to Sa-Javier currently so would have their ear to the ground.

Regards ... Gerry

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I hope it never opens. It's further away from all the coastel resorts than St Javier, . and the N to S roads are not good They must have been nuts to build it inland

It's unlikely that Corvera will ever open as a commercial airport.  It will just end up as a big white elephant.

When you read the Spanish press on this subject the reality soon becomes clear.

Saying that, Corvera is just one of a few airports with a similar fate in Spain.  Airports built when there was more money than sense.

It's true that an airport offering lower landing fees would take the airline business, who will just go to the most cost effective one. The problem is that this is unlikely to be Corvera.  The 200 million euros which has been loaned by the banks was based on a business plan which presumed that Corvera would carry about two and a half times the flights and customers that San Javier currently has. So it's unlikely that any operator could take the current San Javier patronage on lower landing fees and make the whole thing stack up to pay back the banks. That's the problem with using private finance to build public infrastructure.

 Well - I thought it was pretty obvious that I was being ironic!!!   

Roly2

Try reading the latest article onCorvera Airport from  "!murciatoday". Whilst it states similar headline to tumbit its conclusion is no so rosy for Corvera.

The bottom line is there will be a lot more posturing and chest beating but my money, at the moment, is that Corvera is dead in the water. Anyone got a shovel to start the burial process?

 The plot thickens.   It seems we are all going to be using Corvera by summer 2014!!!!!!!   http://www.tumbit.com/news/articles/7462-aena-ready-to-take-control-of-corvera-airport.html

That stands to reason that for a new airport one offers reduced landing fees. However as this is Spain and current hostility to Ryanair and others it might not be on the cards to do this. If they had any businees sense they would have been all over Ryanair whilst they were having their argument with Alicante but nobody from Corvera went anywhere near them. So does this give you confidence they are business persons?  Time will tell

Quie easy . You offer landing fees at hugely reduced rates. They wouldn't have to pay off AENA then as the traffice would migrate naturally to Corvera & it would probably come from Alicante as well. Business is business, Ryanair would be in there in no time.

Today there is a front page story in 'thecourier.es' stating that we are now going to have legal action over Corvera Airport. It also states that the very earliest that it will open is next year which is in breach of aggreements between Murcia and the 'owners'. It goes on to say that they want to revoke to licence and try and appoint a new licence holder and there are at least 3 companies that want to bid for it........are these companies completely mad? At the moment MJV is running and NOT closing as it is run by the State. How can a PRIVATE enterprise group insist that they must close a State run airport so that a private one can take their business? Only in Spain.

The plot thickens

Hello Ravis ...The Post is about Corvera airport  and the website is "Eye on Spain". Its for people all over the world keeping an "Eye on Spain" as it says on the tin. 

You dont have to be "an investor" as you put it to read any posts and comment on them and I agree with Roly 2 that your remark was rude and uncalled for.    get a life yourself.