ARCHIVED - Corvera airport ready to resume flights from 1st July

Aena has installed ample safety measures to guarantee social distancing for staff and passengers

In spite of the continued uncertainty about whether the UK will relax its quarantine regulations for passengers travelling on flights to the country, Corvera airport in the Region of Murcia is ready to resume a normal calendar of services from 1st July.

Ryanair was the first airline to land at Corvera when the airport first opened and will be the first to resume services on 1st July; the first flight out of the airport is to Manchester at 17:55 courtesy of Ryanair,

On the 2nd July Ryanair offers two flights; Palma de Mallorca (14.40), and Dublín (21.20), then on the 3rd resumes flights to Glasgow (19.40). There are also flights for Birmingham and Bournemouth showing for July.

Jet2 and Easyjet are both scheduled to resume flights in mid-July, although as passengers will concur, there have been a significant amount of cancellations by all three companies for the first half of July.
At the moment Jet2 are scheduled to resume flights to Birmingham from the 15th July and Manchester from the 17th.

Easyjet is currently planning flights from London beginning on the 14th July and Bristol on the 17th.
Remaining routes are currently not resuming until August, although again, the situation seems to be changing every 5 minutes, so anyone intending to travel should check airline sites regularly as one announcement supercedes another.

At the moment, Ryanair is planning to resume services from Corvera to London, Bournemouth and Birmingham and Easyjet has added Southend to its own list.

Spanish airline Volotea resumes its connection with Oviedo and opens a new route to Bilbao on 4th July; Binter begins its routes to Tenerife North and Gran Canaria on the 6th.

The airport has taken all necessary measures to ensure passengers are able to socially distance, installing markers throughout the installations, adding security screens in areas where public and staff will interact, supplying handwash gel thoughout the airport, installing extensive signage, preparing a programme of tannoy announcements reminding passengers of the need to maintain social distancing and once flights start to arrive will implement a vigorous cleaning and sterilisation programme.

Passengers must wear masks when inside the installations.

All passengers arriving by air will be requested to fill in a contact form, will undergo a thermal imaging test and be assessed visually for symptoms of Covid-19.

Nobody is under any illusions that this is going to be a complicated summer for tourism and it is very unlikely that volumes of summer tourists will be anything like those of previous years, due principally to the lack of flights and uncertainty about the safety of airline travel at the moment.

Last year Corvera processed more than a million passengers, but with airlines across the world reducing routes and flights, the financial situation will be complicated as the airport joins the struggle to resume some form of normality to air travel.

On June 29th the British Government is expected to make an announcement about its current quarantine regulations which require passengers arriving in the Uk to self-isolate for 14 days. The British Government has also announced its intention to reveal destinations with which “travel corridors” have been agreed, hopefully Spain amongst them, on the same day.
 

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