Cordoba airport will not be the departure airport for the two charter flights scheduled by the tour operator Mapatours for the last quarter of the year with destination Istanbul and RomeThis was revealed to ABC by the head of the company, Esteban Gómez, who explained that these tourist trips will finally take off from Seville and Malaga, respectively.
In the case of the charter to Istanbul, “we cannot operate from Cordoba because there is a lack passport control“, a necessary and mandatory procedure to cross borders between countries, Gómez said.
In this regard, AENA indicated that “we have been working on this for months with the competent authorities, because passport control depends on the National Police and the personnel available for its implementation, taking into account that from Cordoba airport there is no regular route requiring this control.
In the case of flight to Rome“We were supposed to schedule the flight to depart at 8:00 a.m., but the flight schedule At Cordoba airport, departure starts at 10:00. We had the possibility to request this extension of time, but this obviously involves a invaded “After evaluating it, it didn’t work for us,” says Gómez.
The director of Mapatour insisted that Cordoba is always on his list when it comes to scheduling this type of flights, “but it is true that if the schedule does not fit our needs, we must evaluate and opt for other alternatives“.
To date and since its reactivation, the Cordoba aerodrome has seen a take-off charter flight to Prague in December last year and I got another one Basel July 1st.
