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IB To Start New Route To Algiers

Bullpitt From Spain, joined Mar 2004, 871 posts, RR: 9
Posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 2792 times:

Hi all IB is going to start a new route to Algiers twice a week. Do you think this route will work or should they have looked more towards eastern europe?

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JoKeR From Serbia, joined Nov 2004, 2151 posts, RR: 9
Reply 1, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 2777 times:

Quoting Bullpitt (Thread starter):
Do you think this route will work or should they have looked more towards eastern europe?

MAD and BCN are two destinations with the highest potential from BEG, yet there are no direct services. Hope that IB looks into these flights at some stage.

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SKY1 From Spain, joined Apr 2006, 843 posts, RR: 4
Reply 2, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 2743 times:

Arger might works twice a week with A-319.

About Algeria, BA serves Arger and another place called Hassi Messaoud in central Algeria which I find a little odd. I suppose it's because gas as that place is in the middle of nowhere very close to the Sahara desert.

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Planemanofnz From New Zealand, joined Sep 2005, 1653 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 2740 times:

Yay! Yet another African route for IB! Keep the expanding going IB! Anyone know what the flight time will be?

LTU932 From Germany, joined Jan 2006, 13864 posts, RR: 51
Reply 4, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 2722 times:

Quoting Planemanofnz (Reply 3):
Anyone know what the flight time will be?

MAD-ALG should not be more than 1 hour 15 minutes.

Goldorak From France, joined Sep 2006, 1672 posts, RR: 3
Reply 5, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 23 hours ago) and read 2702 times:

I'm sure this route will work as ALG lacks of EU fights. It will give more choice to customers

TriStar500 From Germany, joined Nov 1999, 4685 posts, RR: 48
Reply 6, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 2690 times:

There are hardly any North-South-connections between the Iberian peninsula and Northern Africa, so I suppose this route should work, especially in a low-risk volume like this (2x/week, A319).

Who would have thought that MAD-TNG would be succesful? Nowadays this route is flown daily with an MD-87. Not bad for a niche destination.

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IberiaA319 From Spain, joined Sep 2005, 560 posts, RR: 41
Reply 7, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 2681 times:

Iberia will use the new terminal in Algiers that opened several months ago, with 14 jetbridges.

Some pictures on this site (Algiers Airport website):

http://www.egsa-alger.com

PRGLY From Czech Republic, joined Dec 2004, 494 posts, RR: 1
Reply 8, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 2680 times:

I just wonder if IB will ever start flying to PRG, Czech Airlines is planning 16 weekly flights to MAD as of S07 ( 14 weekly in W06/07) and is having 14 weekly flights to BCN. UX is operating MAD PRG and Clickair will start soon BCN PRG on daily basis. I really miss them here.

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Fermarta From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 9, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 2604 times:

Spanair will also start flying to ALG from MAD 3x weekly and from BCN 4x weekly.

Quoting JoKeR (Reply 1):
MAD and BCN are two destinations with the highest potential from BEG, yet there are no direct services. Hope that IB looks into these flights at some stage

Not likely in the near future. There was a question about it in one of the last issues of Iberia employee magazine and the answer was that there is not enough traffic between Spain and Serbia to start this route. Very low priority for IB.

Quoting TriStar500 (Reply 6):
Who would have thought that MAD-TNG would be succesful?

Most of the passengers that use this route are connecting from European cities, above all AMS.

Quoting SKY1 (Reply 2):
About Algeria, BA serves Arger and another place called Hassi Messaoud in central Algeria which I find a little odd. I suppose it's because gas as that place is in the middle of nowhere very close to the Sahara desert.

Iberworld also flies to Hassi Messaoud from Madrid once a week. At least they did in the summer and I think they still do. Probably as you said a flight for the gas companies employees.

JoKeR From Serbia, joined Nov 2004, 2151 posts, RR: 9
Reply 10, posted (6 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 2570 times:

Quoting Fermarta (Reply 9):
Not likely in the near future. There was a question about it in one of the last issues of Iberia employee magazine and the answer was that there is not enough traffic between Spain and Serbia to start this route. Very low priority for IB.

I'm sure that AF, AZ and LH will be devastated by this decision Big grin

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