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Air Madrid New Service MAD-PTY Begins Sept. 3

TACAA320 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Posted (8 years 9 months 1 week 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 1890 times:

Air Madrid will have starting September 3rd., 2004 two weekly non stop flights o Mondays and Fridays between Madrid and Panama City. They will be using an A330.

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Dakota From Netherlands, joined Feb 2000, 147 posts, RR: 0
Reply 1, posted (8 years 9 months 1 week 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 1798 times:

I believe Air Madrid is already operating the existing flights Quito-Madrid with a stop in Panama (not in the Madrid-Quito part). Anyone knows why?

Anyway, from september the 2-weekly flights will be Madrid-Panama-Quito-Panama-Madrid.

IBERIA747 From Spain, joined Aug 2003, 1825 posts, RR: 62
Reply 2, posted (8 years 9 months 1 week 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 1783 times:

Maybe for weight issues.

Quito´s airport elevation is about 2800 meters (about 9200 ft) and it´s runway is just about 3000 meters long, so I don´t think there´s a chance for a fully loaded aircraft to take off from there for a nonstop transatlantic flght. KL and IB flights to AMS and MAD both take off from Quito with little fuel and make a stop in Guayaquil (at sea level) before crossing the Atlantic.

¡¡VIVA ESPAÑA!!

RCS763av From Colombia, joined Jun 2004, 4279 posts, RR: 14
Reply 3, posted (8 years 9 months 1 week 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 1782 times:

Dont KL flights stop in Bonaire?

IBERIA747 From Spain, joined Aug 2003, 1825 posts, RR: 62
Reply 4, posted (8 years 9 months 1 week 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 1773 times:

Oh yes, you are right RCS763av.

KL flights from Quito to Amsterdam make a second stop at Bonaire. This doesn´t happen on the way from Amsterdam to Quito.

¡¡VIVA ESPAÑA!!

Luisde8cd From Venezuela, joined Aug 2004, 2516 posts, RR: 34
Reply 5, posted (8 years 9 months 1 week 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 1767 times:

Good news for panamanians. But bad news to CCS. We'll sure miss those pax coming from PTY in the afternoon each day to take their connecting flight to Europe.

Viasa we miss you!. Good times will return after Chavez is gone!

Dakota From Netherlands, joined Feb 2000, 147 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (8 years 9 months 1 week 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 1739 times:

A little correction: KLM flies the route Amsterdam-Bonaire-Guayaquil-Quito-Bonaire-Amsterdam (coincidently from today they will fly first to Quito and secondly to Guayaquil, with MD-11).

Luisde8cd: indeed bad news for CCS, but may be Air Madrid will fly there in future? Sad too that KLM stopped their flights to Venezuela after so many years...

TACAA320 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 7, posted (8 years 9 months 1 week 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 1730 times:

Does anybody knows the actual situation of Air Madrid in Colombia?

SOUTHAMERICA From Colombia, joined Dec 2003, 2496 posts, RR: 15
Reply 8, posted (8 years 9 months 1 week 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 1720 times:

Indeed bad news for CCS, but may be Air Madrid will fly there in future?

Who knows if the route can handle three operators... CCS-MAD is already well covered by three carriers.

Does anybody knows the actual situation of Air Madrid in Colombia?

After several weeks of problems with the colombian government and community, I guess that the silence indicates that things have gone back to normal. They are operating thursday and saturday to BOG via CTG.

SOUTHAMERICA

Luisde8cd From Venezuela, joined Aug 2004, 2516 posts, RR: 34
Reply 9, posted (8 years 9 months 1 week 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 1706 times:

Luisde8cd: indeed bad news for CCS, but may be Air Madrid will fly there in future? Sad too that KLM stopped their flights to Venezuela after so many years...

Indeed it was sad to see KLM pull out of CCS. It was also sad when they downgraded their service from a MD11 to a B763.By the way. They had ahuge 1-page ad in a major Venezuelan newspaper thanking Venezuela for their support in all those years they operated in the country. It's a sad consecuence of the merger with Air France... I'll never forget those blue MD-11s touching down in CCS's hot runway 09 in the afternoon. I know they operated a 747 with a stop in Curaçao before switching to non-stop with the MD-11 but I was too young to remember the 747.

Air Madrid in Venezuela? hmm I haven't heard anything. Right now Santa Bárbara is kicking IB and Air Europa butts with their lower fares. Also they are the only ones flying to the Canary Islands (Tenerife-Los Rodeos) after IB pulled out of that route. They also fly to Santiago de Compostela nonstop seasonal service during summer. They have a big market share in the Spain-Venezuela market.

Viasa we miss you!. Good times will return after Chavez is gone!

TACAA320 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 10, posted (8 years 9 months 1 week 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 1701 times:

Does anybody knows what happen with Air Madrid's web page?

I'm trying www.air-madrid.com several times and got nothing Sad

SOUTHAMERICA From Colombia, joined Dec 2003, 2496 posts, RR: 15
Reply 11, posted (8 years 9 months 1 week 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 1663 times:

http://www.airmadrid.com/

Luisca From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 12, posted (8 years 9 months 1 week 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 1635 times:

Will it be the same plane as the Quito Route? or will it be a different one?

I am stilll not convinced that panama can handle an almost everyday service to Madrid, becouse if you combine IB and Air Madrid, you get 6 flights a day, that seems a lot for my little country!. Any Idea if Air Madrid will begin fliying to Cancun?

Caracas will really have a falll in traffic. since the end of TWOV in Miami, Most people traveled to Caracas to go to Europe.

TACAA320 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 13, posted (8 years 9 months 1 week 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 1632 times:

"Will it be the same plane as the Quito Route? or will it be a different one?"
Luisca
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I'll try to check www.airmadrid.com and www.air-madrid.com and got... Nothing.

Don't know what happen with their web site, but apparently they have troubles with it.

Sad, because we may find many answers to our questions there...

Aer From Guatemala, joined Mar 2004, 995 posts, RR: 4
Reply 14, posted (8 years 9 months 1 week 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 1634 times:

Does anybody have any idea if Air Madrid is spotting GUA as a possibility?

nice and spacious airports in need of new airlines and flights... GUA or FRS anyone?... anyone at all?

TACAA320 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 15, posted (8 years 9 months 1 week 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 1598 times:

Unfortunately only through their web page we can find some answers.

As I stated many times, apparently it's not working.

Can you try their web page? Maybe your will be luckier than me.

Thanks,

CptGirmayTesfa From Peru, joined Oct 2003, 406 posts, RR: 3
Reply 16, posted (8 years 9 months 1 week 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 1584 times:

From the website http://www.airmadrid.com it appears that for the time being there is only the Madrid-Panama-Quito-Panama-Madrid, on monday and friday. I.e. no other service to Panama.

Luisca From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 17, posted (8 years 9 months 1 week 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 1566 times:

Just Checked, It doesnt say anything offiacly, but if you compare the Quito and Panama section, the departure and arrival times into Madrid are the same.
What is Air Madrid's call sign?

Aer From Guatemala, joined Mar 2004, 995 posts, RR: 4
Reply 18, posted (8 years 9 months 1 week 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 1554 times:

Luisca:

This is a great page for that, www.airlinecodes.co.uk

nice and spacious airports in need of new airlines and flights... GUA or FRS anyone?... anyone at all?

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