Air Europa announced this Friday that leave in the Balearic Islands inter-island flightsto those who arrived in 2015 for break the monopoly who until then exercised On Nostrum in air connections between Mallorca y Minorca y Mallorca e Ibiza. The airline has reached an agreement with Uep! Fly for what assume from March 26 these air connections in shared codethus ensuring that the current connectivity between islands is maintained.
“For us it was a priority to maintain the best operation between the Balearic Islands and the agreement with uepfly.com, as an inter-island route company, is a guarantor of excellent connectivity”, he commented on it Imanol Perezcommercial director of the company.
Uep! Fly, Balearic airline subsidiary of Swiftair, began flying between islands on July 16, 2021initially with six daily frequencies, three outbound flights and three return flights. between Palma and Ibiza and another four between Palma and Menorca, using three ATR 72 aircraft with 68 seats each. Now he assumes the challenge of filling the gap that Air Europa will leave from March.
“For many years we have worked jointly and efficiently with Air Europa through our parent company, Swiftair, in communities such as the Balearic Islands, and we are very pleased to cooperate in this new stage, ensuring the connectivity of its island passengers”, said Salvador, for his part. Brown, president of Uep! Fly.
Eight years of Air Europa inter-island flights
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Air Europa began operating flights between islands in the Balearic Islands in May 2015, almost eight years ago now, with the help of the Ibizan tourist entrepreneur Abel Matutes and in an expansive phase of the company, since only a month before it had inaugurated its operations control center in Llucmajor, with a total of 150 workers. The company’s first inter-island flight was a Mao-Palma that landed on May 2 in Son Sant Joan. And in December of the same year the airline had already transported 161,000 passengers. Matutes had joined the Air Europa group two years earlier.
The abandonment of Air Europa of flights between Balearic islands coincides with another announcement. The group company Globalia will strengthen its connections from Spain with the Dominican Republicupon receiving the official authorization of the Civil Authorization Board of the Caribbean country to carry out additional flights on the route Madrid-Punta Cana during the 2023 winter season, between February 20 and March 21, with a frequency of one flight every Monday. The Dominican Civil Aviation Board already cAir Europa recently granted the possibility of operating a total of 188 flights under the special permit modality on the routes Madrid/Santo Domingo/New York y Madrid/New York/Santo Domingoon Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, from June 20, 2023 to October 29, 2023.