28 Sep 2007 12:58 PM:

Could it be that Terminal 1 has been refurbished then because where we were looked a lot newer, airier and brighter than Terminal 2. It had  new escalators for a start!

Thread: Malaga airport "improvements"

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27 Sep 2007 8:24 PM:

Either it's open or I dreamt it all  - three times!

If you go straight down from the far end of the new extension to the Departures car park you will see it in front of you. It is joined onto but set a little back from the original building. It is now Terminal 1 and the original terminal is Terminal 2. As you enter the main doors Arrivals is to your right and Check In to your left. There are escalators, lifts and staircases which take you up to the area that links Terminal 1 and Check In for Terminal2. Between the two terminals there are  shops and at least one restaurant .

We were there for the first time on the 7th and I believe it had opened a week or so earlier. We saw it had opened either in Sur or the Costa del Sol News and did a dry run prior to meeting a friend on the 14th,in case we needed to familiarise ourselves with the new set up.The British low cost carriers remain in the old terminal.As yet there don't seem to be many carriers using the new terminal.

It looks like the "improvements" are likely to go on until 2010 with new and longer runways and modifications to the station in order to allow the AVE to stop at the airport.

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26 Sep 2007 8:49 PM:

Have been  to Malaga airport twice in the last couple of weeks. Parked in departures without too much trouble on both occasions. Once mid morning and once late evening.

The new terminal puts the old one to shame and I like the addition of shops and restaurants in the area between both terminals.

What drives me mad is the length of the queues at check in and the chaos around the taxi rank outside Arrivals in what is now Terminal 2. That certainly hasn't improved.

Thread: Malaga airport "improvements"

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26 Sep 2007 3:52 PM:

We booked a 1 month rental with Auriga Crown. at Malaga Airport. The booking was for a Fiat Punto 1200 and we got a brand new never been used previously Seat Leon 1.9. at Fiat Punto prices. When we went to extend the rental for a further two months we kept the Leon but continued to be charged the Punto price. We were most impressed.

Thread: Auriga Crown

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25 Sep 2007 2:36 PM:

Used to do careers advice at one stage in my career. I always asked what the individual saw themselves doing 10 years hence. If they were thinking about university I got them to think laterally. There are other degree courses for which his combination of courses are suitable. Schools often concentrate on the pure subjects rather than looking at  options such as engineering or biotech courses or even management sciences.

If earning money was the major priority then we looked at job options.

Can't really comment on gap years except to say it seems like a good way of delaying decisions.

According to my husband, a former Physics Lecturer in F.E.,with subjects like Maths, Physics and Chemistry and given the predicted grades there should be no problem in getting into an English university.

One of my son's old girlfriends studied Physics at university and was sponsored by the RAF. She wasn't tied to them after graduating and is now an astrophysicist and has worked at observatories all over the world. The same son's wife read Biotechnology and Analytical Chemistry and was sposored by Glaxo. During her Ph.D. final year she was head hunted by a biotech company in San Francisco where they now live and has since been head hunted by another biotech co. She wishes she could speak Spanish as it's the second language in the States.

Both our sons went to university. One completed his degree and is now a house husband in San Francisco. The other dropped, out went to work as a temp in a food company and 10 years on is now a manager in the same company. I guess that proves one size doesn't fit all.

At the end of the day adult life is about making decisions and taking risks so it's down to your son in the end.

 

Thread: Education: First Job in Spain/UK, University in Spain/UK or Gap Year?????

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