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Miguel Praga

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Level hará de agencia de viajes de la mano de Booking

✈ Level, an airline from IAG group, now offers additional tourism services such as hotel bookings and car rentals via Booking on its website. After separating from Iberia in December, services are available in cities like Barcelona, Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, and destinations in connection with Vueling and Iberia. Ancillary Manager Jacobo Gómez-Ballesteros aims to enhance customer experience. From March 30, San Francisco will join Level's summer destination network.
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El Prat desaloja a 200 sintecho a las puertas del Mobile World Congress

🛫 Aena, Mossos d'Esquadra, El Prat de Llobregat and Barcelona municipalities relocate 200 homeless people from Barcelona's airport due to health concerns. This operation coincides with the Mobile World Congress, expected to attract over 100,000 attendees, held March 3-6 at Fira de Barcelona. In October, El Prat workers demanded action against airport insecurity and the presence of organized thief gangs.
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Se roza la tragedia: dos aviones, a 800 metros de colisionar en pleno aterrizaje

✈ Crew expertise prevented a collision between two planes at Midway Airport in Chicago. A private jet entered the runway as a Southwest Boeing 737-800 was landing. The pilot of the second aircraft aborted landing just in time, avoiding impact with only 800 meters separating the planes. The incident was caused by the private jet not following air traffic control instructions, according to the FAA's initial investigation.
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Ávoris se alía con Air Europa para nutrir a Iberojet en Barajas

✈ Ávoris partners with Air Europa to expand in Portugal, offering free flights (excluding taxes) from Lisbon, Porto, and Vigo to Madrid. Travelplan's program features destinations like Havana, Cancun, and Punta Cana for travel between May and October. This move counters rival W2M's operations and aims to top its €200 million Portuguese business by over 20% in 2025.
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Europa se enreda con el boicot a volar sobre Rusia

🛩 Chinese airlines benefit from Europe's ban on their carriers flying over Russian airspace, making flights with European airlines non-competitive amid the Ukraine war. USA airlines are prepared to resume flights over Russia with Donald Trump's rise to power potentially escalating tensions. Brussels banned flights from third-country airlines within Russia to assert autonomy, and the EU agreed to sanction any non-Russian airline operating domestic flights in Russia by banning them from European airspace as well.
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Huelgas de transporte en Alemania y en Grecia

✈️ Lunes: huelgas en aeropuertos de Colonia Bonn y Dusseldorf, 280 vuelos cancelados, 48 mil pasajeros afectados. Jueves y viernes, huelgas en Múnich durante carnaval. Múnich es esencial para Lufthansa en vuelos largo recorrido. Sindicato Verdi demanda aumento salarial del 8% o 350 euros lineales; negociaciones del 14 al 16 de marzo en Potsdam. 28 de marzo, huelga general en Grecia; afectará aeropuertos, aerolíneas, ferrocarriles y ferries. Italia: Easyjet enfrenta suspensiones por demandas salariales de empleados.
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Azulmarino adquiere la agencia andaluza Spatravel

🏠 Azulmarino acquires Spatravel in San Pedro de Alcántara, Andalucía, with the latter's business volume exceeding €3 million. Azulmarino, part of World2Meet (W2M), has established a network of about 200 sales points, including 194 stores by the end of 2024—162 owned (136 Azulmarino, 19 Grand Azulmarino, 5 Viajes Cibeles, 2 The Sphere) and 29 Azulmarino franchises, aiming for around 100 offices in three years.
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Opentours ficha a Javier Escriche, ex de Valentín Hotels

🏦 Javier Escriche joins Opentours as a senior management and corporate governance advisor after 15 years as Commercial Director at Valentín Hotels in Spain. His career includes roles at Mundicolor/Iberia, Turimar, Puente del Mundo, and Días Libres-Relax Tours. CEO Ángel Martín notes Escriche's market knowledge and industry relationships will drive group expansion. Escriche is excited to return to tourism intermediation and contribute to the company's digitalization and sector transformation.
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