04.08.09
Low cost Canary Island flights on the increase
When the going gets tough, the tough get going and, it appears, even when times are hard sun lovers keep flying. We all know that the pull of the Canary Islands keeps people coming back again and again and recent figures show despite the financial hardships many are currently suffering, they will still find a way of getting to their favourite holiday destination.
Recent figures show that the Canary Islands are the only place in Spain where flights with low cost carriers have increased in popularity.
During January, Spain as a whole received one million three hundred thousand foreign visitors on low cost carriers, which represents almost a ten per cent decrease on the same month the last year. More traditional air line companies also reported a fourteen percent fall.
In the Canary Islands, however, the use of low cost airlines during January went up by over seven percent. The biggest increase was in Lanzarote, which is up almost ten percent with an increase of over three percent at Tenerife’s south airport.
Tourism chiefs have been regularly pointing out the need to capitalise on the current trend and to work with these carriers to encourage even more low cost flights to the Canary Islands.