Six bidders—Vueling, Volotea, Air Horizon, Bynter, Ryanair and Wizz Air—submitted 25 offers for 19 tenders. Ten lots received no bids. In Spain, seven domestic destinations were put out to tender, four of them new: Alicante, Málaga, Santiago and Ibiza. These cities will join Tenerife North, Gran Canaria and Menorca, as well as Mallorca, which was excluded from this tender.
For international flights, bids were submitted for five new destinations: Düsseldorf, Budapest, Porto, Bratislava and Krakow. Meanwhile, 11 destinations received no offers: Paris, Venice, Tangier, Warsaw, southern Italy (Naples and Palermo), Sofia, Pisa, Manchester, Prague and Switzerland.
The Government of Aragon says it is “quite satisfied,” as Development Minister Octavio López said, since the number of destinations and countries will double. Annual flights will also increase from 3,900 to 6,000, leading authorities to expect one million passengers.
The regional government and Zaragoza City Council have announced that they are already holding firm talks with various airlines to add new routes, both those still pending and others that could prove attractive to the destination portfolio. This process can be carried out either through direct negotiations or by launching a new tender under different conditions.
