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Friday, April 07, 2006

The Ibiza airport will operate 790 flights in Easter

The days with more aerial traffic in Ibiza will be the 12 and the 17 of April, during which there will be 82 and 86 movements, respectively The airports of Balears have predicted to operate 6,447 flights during this Easter, from Friday 7 of April to Monday 17.

According to it informed Spanish Airports and Navegacion Aerea yesterday (AENA), the airport of Menorca has programmed 586 operations during the Easter, whereas the one of Ibiza has predicted 790 flights. 5.071 of the movements will correspond to Sant Joan, in Palma. In Ibiza, the days in which are planned more operations are the 12 and the 17 of April, in that 82 and 86 movements will take place. Los days in which the airport of Palma will register a greater traffic will be the 8 of April, day in that is programmed 531 operations, followed of the days 15 and 16, in which they are predicted, respectively, 522 and 532 flights. In the case of Menorca, the days in which the airport will register a greater traffic will be the 13 and the 17 of April, days in which are programmed, respectively, 64 and 70 flights. In agreement with the information facilitated by AENA, the number of landings and takeoffs it is put under continuous variations due to the final adjustments that the airline companies make in the programmings of flights based on the demand. The three terminals of the archipelago will welcome the 11.5 percent of the total of flights anticipated in the main Spanish airports for these days, whose sum ascends to almost 56,000, which supposes 400 operations more than in the same vacacional period of the last year. AENA attributed this increase in that the Easter is in April, month in which the number of daily landings and takeoffs is more elevated due to the beginning of the summer season. During these days, the airports with greater incidence will start up programs of reinforcement of the services.

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Ibiza a top Inter-net user

Madrid, Catalunia, Basque Country, Navarrese and Ibiza and the rest of Balears head the use of Internet, as much in percentage of houses connected, like in extension of the connections of broadband and citizens who surf and buy by the network, whereas Extremadura occupies the last place in all the aspects, according to the survey on equipment and use of information technologies and communication of the INE.
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The population of immigrants in Ibiza and Formentera, one of highest of Spain

The consellera of Immigration presents in Ibiza the campaign ` Empadrónate´. Pastor assures that in July the Unique Point of Information will be opened. Ibiza and Formentera are between the places of Spain that have a higher percentage of immigrant population , according to the Balearic consellera Immigration and Cooperation, Pastor. The consellera based the number of immigrants of the Ibiza and Formentera in a 20 percent of the total of the residents. ` Empadrónate in your Ayuntamiento´ Pastor visited Ibiza yesterday to display the campaign, with which it is wanted to animate to the immigrants to register itself. Conselleria will distribute in Balears a total of 20,000 pamphlets informing into the proceedings that must follow for the empadronamiento and its advantages. "one is to convince them that being empadronado it is not to be Filed", Pastor, who emphasized that the campaign also tries to present the resident immigrants the services that can solicit to only be empadronados. "It is necessary to emphasize that the case of the immigrants is not like the one of the rest of the population, who remain registerd while they do not indicate the opposite" plus in their case, every two years must inform from their situation to the City council. The consellera indicated like characteristic of the immigration that arrives at the islands that "they don't leave, its people who come to stay". In the same way, it confessed that it is impossible to calculate the number of irregular immigrants who are at the moment live in the island of Ibiza, although based in around 50,000 the regularized ones in the balears. Pastor confessed the lack of information of the population immigrant and for this reason he announced that he will start up in Ibiza the Unique Point of information and Attention to Immigration. The consellera emphasized the necessity that the immigrants can find all the information they need , the bureaucratic proceedings that must follow and solve any other doubt in the same office. Although it did not offer a concrete date, the consellera ventured that this point of information could open its doors during the month of July.

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Acciona announces the marine connection Alicante-Ibiza

The shipping Company presented the new passage in the meeting with 130 agents of trips of the Tourism organization of Alicante within its promotional tour The 130 agents stayed in the Hotel Meliá Alicante and applauded the announcement of the Acciona company, before Trasmediterránea, to connect Alicante and Ibiza by sea "since it will suppose enormous possibilities of increase of traffic and sale towards the islands", indicated Promotion in an official notice. New line will be covered with fast ships and the passage towards Ibiza will have continuity until Palma. This announcement carried out by representative of Acciona present in the act, which also attended a spokesman of the shipping Baleària that, as well, announced an important increase in the number of passages of the company between Denia and Ibiza and the extension and direct route between Dénia and Formentera. Fear of ` overbooking´ On the other hand, the president of Promotion of Tourism, Jose Tur Elm tree, made emphasis to the agents of trips in the necessity to guarantee a sufficient number of beds for the Spanish market in a season that "predicted to be successful". Plus, due to the double national and international demand for the next months, "this situations could cause overbooking´", noticed Tur Elm tree. Promotion of the Tourism is convinced that the increase of Spanish tourism towards Ibiza and Formentera is due , "to the campaigns that with as much fidelity and vehemence was made by this organism in the last fourteen years with the economic collaboration of the Ibatur at first and of the Insular Consell of Ibiza in the last years". The promotional caravan of Eivissa visits Valencia now, where it will make another presentation of the tourist product Ibiza in the Meliá Hotel King Don Jaime, to which they have confirmed his attendance more than 160 trip agents . After a rest by Easter, the expedition of Promotion will start off for Granada, Almeria and Albacete.