ARCHIVED - First passengers at Corvera airport will arrive from East Midlands and Bristol

16 flights at the Region of Murcia International Airport on 15^th January

As the opening of the Region of Murcia International Airport in Corvera approaches, the details of the first flights on 15^th January mean that the first passengers to pass through the terminal will be those arriving on a Ryanair flight from East Midlands.

Those flying in from the airport between Derby, Leicester and Nottingham are scheduled to land at Corvera at 10.25, twenty minutes before the arrival of an Easyjet flight from Bristol, and the return flights are scheduled at 10.50 and 11.20 respectively. At 14.05 another Ryanair flight is due to arrive from Stansted, taking off on the return leg 25 minutes later, followed by two more afternoon services flying in from Leeds Bradford at 16.40 and Birmingham at 17.25, both again with a scheduled turnaround time of just 25 minutes.

The arrivals and departures boards for the first day of flights at Corvera are completed by the aircraft arriving in the evening from Southend (Easyjet at 18.20, departing on the return flight at 18.55), Luton (Ryanair, arriving 20.00 and departing 20.25) and Dublin (Ryanair again, arriving at 20.45 and leaving at 21.20.

There will doubtless be great interest in the impressions of the first passengers as they become the first to pass through the terminal, but attention will be distracted away from them at some point by the opening ceremony, which is to be presided over by King Felipe VI. The exact timings of the ceremonial proceedings have yet to be confirmed, although it has emerged that a part of the building will be cordoned off in order to avoid any disruption in the smooth running of the first flights.

At the same time, of course, all of the ancillary services which will cease operations after the last flight at Murcia-San Javier airport on 14^th January will be transferred to Corvera during the day, assuming that the final permits related to Corvera are received in time from Aesa, the Spanish air safety agency. Sources at both the regional government and the airport management company Aena appear confident that this will be the case, although Aena continue to refer to the possibility that the schedule as it stands may still be subject to minor modifications.

Click here for a history of the Corvera airport project over the last decade.

Images: Aena

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