No plane had ever arrived at the airport. Grenade Since amsterdambut this lack of direct connection ended around 7:15 p.m. on Monday, September 30, when a flight from Schiphol landed at Federico García Lorca Airport. And its occupants were not received like the Americans in Welcome Mr. Marshall, but that did not go unnoticed either.
The air connection is good news and they stressed that Marcel de Nooijergeneral director of the company Transavia, which manages the flights, as well as François Rodriguezpresident of the Provincial Council of Granada, the institution that piloted (pun intended) the negotiations.
After landing, Rodríguez highlighted that Granada now has three international connections – the other two are Paris and London– which are added to the eight national destinations already common: Madrid, Barcelona, Melilla, Palma de Mallorca, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Asturias, Bilbao and Santa Cruz de Tenerife. “Granada joins a new European capital,” he proudly emphasized, knowing the tourist boost that this represents, while De Nooijer highlighted the “beauty” of the new destination to which the company arrives.
There will be direct flights two days a week, Monday and Friday. They will be in the afternoon, from Amsterdam the departure to 4:20 p.m. and from Granada, return, to 8:00 p.m.. As the connection lasts two hours and 55 minutes, this means that a Granada native who wants to spend a long weekend in the capital of the The Netherlands You can arrive there around dawn from Friday to Saturday, enjoy Saturday, Sunday and Monday morning and return in the afternoon.
However, the calculations carried out for the moment by the Provincial Delegation of Granada do not only focus on Grenadians who go to Amsterdam but also on those who may come to do tourism in the city. In this sense, it is estimated that they will be able to move15,000 people thanks to this new means of communication. The plane that will make the trip will be a Boeing 737-800 with a capacity of 200 passengers.
Regarding prices, Transavia has already announced that it will organize special promotions and on different websites you can see very attractive offers, such as a round trip. “from” 89 euros. However, the most abundant are those which offer a round trip for 320 euros. And of course, on special dates like long weekends in November and December, travel will be more expensive. About 260 per trip.
