Airlines have planned a 1.9% increase in seat supply for this winter at Barcelona airport, below the average for the entire network (5.5%) and that of Madrid-Barajas (10%), according to data from the employers' association Airline Association (ALA). Over the last two years, the airport facilities of the Catalan capital exceeded their theoretical capacity of 55 million passengers, and in the current fiscal year they are on track to do so again. In total, the supply of seats on planes at all Spanish airports will be 145.6 million in the winter season, from this month of October until March of next year.

It has been a long road, but finally, European air transport has managed to overcome the pandemic. It was the economic sector that suffered the greatest impact from the health emergency, not only because everything ground to a halt for months and some countries, like China, took years to reopen their borders, but also because of all the internal crises it triggered. Airlines went into debt to weather the storm and, at the same time, saw costs skyrocket and pilots disappear.

The project ofexpansion of El Prat Aena is stepping on the gas. Aena wants an airport with greater capacity, but also with more services. One of those it has never had is a hotel, unlike what happens in other cities around the world. This pending issue is beginning to be resolved with the first steps toward putting out to tender the construction and operation of an establishment in Terminal T2. All this, the same week that the airport manager presented a €700 million renovation of Terminal T1, where it will advance the façade by approximately 38 meters to provide more space for check-in and security checkpoints.

An Iberia flight operating between Madrid and Paris was forced to make an emergency landing at Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport on Sunday afternoon following the impact of a large bird just minutes after takeoff. Both the passengers and crew of flight IB579 were unharmed, according to company and air traffic control sources.