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11 - 17 SEPTEMBER 2014
A record-breaking August for airport
Price crash PRICES for the province’s agricultural produce have fallen by 37 per cent since Russia announced its veto on EU imports. Many reductions were unjustified speculation, the Asaja-Alicante co-operative has claimed.
Costly fare THE €13.50 charge for a 10-journey bus ticket in Benidorm is one of Spain’s dearest, the Compromis party has said. Madrid charges €12.20, Barcelona €10.30 and Alicante €8.70, it claimed.
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Alfaz to do its own thing ALFAZ DEL PI has allocated €30,000 of its budget to fire-fighting and prevention. The town hall is still waiting to hear from the Generalitat regional government after asking to be included in the Forestry Employment Plan. The Generalitat scheme is intended to kill two birds with one stone by providing work for the jobless while employing them to keep a fire watch, clear woodland and assist in extinguishing flames. Meanwhile, the town is setting up its
own programme as the ongoing drought shows no sign of relenting, leaving woodland and countryside tinder-dry. The environmentally-valuable Sierra Helada National Park is motive enough to have included Alfaz del Pi, the town mayor, Vicente Arques, reasoned. Nevertheless, Alfaz’s own fireprevention and extinction plans will not include conservation and clearing the park between Albir and Benidorm. Maintenance there is the Generalitat’s responsibility and neither town may intervene.
ALICANTE-ELCHE Airport has registered a new record in the number of passengers. According to AENA, the Spanish airports authority, more people than ever used the airport during the month of August. With more than 1.2 million passengers, it was the busiest month in the history of the airport, surpassing July and showing a 4 per cent increase compared to August 2013. There were 132,051 travellers who arrived or departed via domestic flights, an increase of over 22 per cent compared to August last year. International flights also rose by 1.8 per cent with 532,329 passengers from the UK and 90,213 from Germany. The airport handled a total of 8,169 flights during the month of August.