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London.– While other low-cost airlines cut services, Air Europa is bucking the trend with increased flights and new routes for its Winter 2009 schedule.

The Spanish airline announced scheduled flights to winter sun favorites the Canary Islands of Las Palmas, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, as well as Palma de Mallorca, Ibiza and Minorca in the Balearic Islands.

These destinations have short connection times in Madrid and the airline is also launching three daily flights to Lisbon via Madrid.

Air Europa’s London Gatwick to Madrid route provides regular connections to a host of exciting destinations in South America and the Caribbean including Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico and the Dominican Republic.

Three-times-weekly flights from London to Brazil's Salvador de Bahia via Madrid are to be reintroduced from November 3rd 2009.

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8 comment(s)
Written by: Juango, 26 Aug 2009 9:09 AM
From: United States, far S. Florida (formerly Santo Domingo)
This is great news for the DR. More tourist traffic transalates into more revenue. The only concern is the potential explosion of H1N1 cases in the Americas and Europe. If this happens look for a similar event to what Mexico saw only 3-4 months ago. This could potentially cripple the DR in short order.
Written by: ojedamaggiolo80, 26 Aug 2009 12:10 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Another demonstration of the Dominican Republics Leadership in Tourism! I do not think the H1N1 will affect the tourism industry in DR anymore. In my opinion this affected Mexico when the desease first came out because it started in Mexico but now every single country in the world has it therefore you can catch it anywhere in the world.
Written by: xwill7, 26 Aug 2009 12:23 PM
From: United States, Chicago
oojeda,
it just takes a few working girls/strip club girls that are infected to spread H1N1. A condom can not help you against this flu
Written by: ojedamaggiolo80, 26 Aug 2009 12:45 PM
From: Dominican Republic
I did not say taht a condom can help you against H1N1, I said that you can catch H1N1 in the USA, in Canada, in Chile, in Puerto Rico, in Dominian Republic, in Korea anywhere in the world! Therefore this shouldnt affect the tourism industry because you can catch at home or what work, it is not something that you can solely or mostly catch while traveling to DR or to Mexico or anywhere.
Written by: glomarexplorer, 26 Aug 2009 6:24 PM
From: United States, Fresh Water Paradise-NY Finger Lakes
Must've missed something in article, but where does it state that DR would be beneficiary of increased flight frequency?

DR connection is mostly from flights originating from London, England, and article doesn't say anything about flight frequency or capacity increases there. So it's not very clear how traffic to DR would increase.

Perhaps someone else here has more in-depth knowledge and could clarify.
Written by: PuntaCanaMike, 26 Aug 2009 8:57 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Hopefully the overseas flights are not in the planes shown!
Written by: Juango, 27 Aug 2009 10:23 AM
From: United States, far S. Florida (formerly Santo Domingo)
Glomar, you are absolutely correct. There in no mention of increased flight to the DR from Air Europa in this article. I stand corrected. I must read more carefully. Thanks.
Written by: Adrian29630, 27 Aug 2009 12:27 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Cabrera
Absolutely correct! No mention of any flight increases to D.R. in this article and anyone wanting to get here from the U.K. can get a direct flight with no need to fly to Madrid first. No idea why the Editor thought it appropriate to include this article unless they are so short of real news and put it in as a filler.
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