Bilbao airport faces Easter with “very positive” prospects, improving on the figures for 2020 and last year’s, although they are still not as good as those for 2019. Loiu foresees a total of 741 operations during this festive period, from Wednesday 13 to Monday 28 April. Specifically, on Wednesday 13th, a total of 123 flights […]Leer más
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Aena installs Spain’s first avian radar at Bilbao Airport
Bilbao Airport now has the first avian radar installed in Spain to detect the movements of the birds that usually share the airspace surrounding the airport with aircraft. The 3D radar system installed, which is the same as the one used to detect wildlife at airports such as Berlin, Frankfurt and Amsterdam, is being put […]Leer más
Loiu reached 212,688 passengers in February, 61.5% more than in the same period of 2019
Bilbao Airport confirms its upward trend in the volume of users and operations. In February it reached 212,688 passengers, 61.5% more than in the same month of 2019, the last reference year before the outbreak of the pandemic. Compared to 2021, this figure represents 471% more passengers. In total, 161,603 passengers were registered for domestic […]Leer más
Bilbao launches 3 new routes to Almería, Malta and Copenhagen, and recovers Murcia and La Palma
Vueling launches 3 new routes to Almería, Malta and Copenhagen, recovers links with Murcia and the island of La Palma and increases frequencies to London, Gran Canaria, Valencia and Lanzarote. Bilbao Airport reinforces its connectivity for the upcoming summer season thanks to Vueling, which will operate a total of 25 direct routes. In addition, as […]Leer más
The Bilbao Airport Route Committee will hold some thirty meetings at CONNECT, a great international connectivity event
Next week, from 23rd to 25th February, the 18th edition of CONNECT Route Development Forum, a great international connectivity event, will be held in Tampere (Finland). The Bilbao Airport Routes Committee has scheduled some thirty meetings with airlines, airports and other agents in the sector. This prestigious aviation industry event aims to help “boost the […]Leer más
Bilbao Airport receives the ‘The Voice of the Customer’ award for its commitment to passengers during the pandemic
The Airports Council International (ACI) has recognised the efforts made by Bilbao Airport over the past year, during which it continued to collect passenger feedback through the ASQ programme surveys, despite the additional difficulties posed by the pandemic. The ASQ surveys are carried out directly with passengers and they respond to questionnaires that assess, among […]Leer más
Bilbao Airport expands its remote boarding gates and changes its name
Bilbao Airport has put into service new spaces for remote boarding of passengers. These 1,400 square metres, previously used for offices and storage, will now make it more comfortable for users to wait before boarding the plane. With this extension on the ground floor of the terminal building, passengers boarding the aircraft in a remote […]Leer más
The Bilbao Airport Route Development Committee predicts connectivity levels “very close” to pre-pandemic’s by 2022
The connectivity of Bilbao Airport began a gradual recovery trend in the second half of 2021, which will be consolidated next year. “We expect to have connectivity levels very close to those we had before the pandemic, with even more powerful connections in the state market than those we had in 2019 due to the […]Leer más
The Bilbao Airport Route Development Committee will meet with twenty airlines and airports at World Routes Milan
World Routes Milan is about to begin. Next Sunday, October 10th, the great international event of the airline industry kicks off, where the Routes Committee of Bilbao Airport has a busy schedule of meetings with different agents of the sector with the aim of activating those connections that were not implemented as a result of […]Leer más
Recover all pre-pandemic routes and reactivate the international market, objectives of the Bilbao Airport Route Development Committee in World Routes 2021
Milan will be the scene of the first face-to-face meeting of the international aviation sector after the pandemic: World Routes 2021. From October 10 to 12, airlines, airports and global connectivity professionals will meet again to address the future of the industry and its incipient recovery. The committee faces this edition with the aim of […]Leer más