NEWS
22 - 28 June 2023
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ACCORDING to recent reports a shark has been spotted in Spanish waters. This re port comes not long after an other one was spotted in Ali cante. The seagoing predator be lieved to be a tintorera or blue shark was spotted early on Thursday, June 15 in the port of Ciutadella, in Menor ca according to a news source. Video footage emerged of what was thought to be a blue shark swimming among the boats and almost reach ing the coast, images which thanks to social media went viral.
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Shark spotted in hotspot
Shark near the coast.
There was much excite ment in Ciutadella as the only topic of conversation seemed to be about this rare shark sighting so close to land. According to eyewitnesses, it is believed that the huge fish may have been injured or sick, as this particular species
of shark does not usually swim almost to the coast and in such shallow waters. The blue shark is not con sidered a serious threat to humans. One man posted footage of the shark accom panied with the message: ‘The security mea sures have already been in stalled so that people do not jump into the port of Ciu tadella for Saint John’s Day.’ This latest sighting comes hours after a large shark was seen off the beach at Agua marina Beach in Alicante, again this was believed to be a blue shark approximately two metres long.
AENA airports have record ed more than 25.4 million passengers in May which is up by 14.4 per cent from last year. This figure is 3.4 per cent higher than in 2019. At airports throughout the network, 215,257 aircraft movements were recorded and 87,583 tonnes of cargo were transported. In the first five months of the year, Aena handled al most 103 million passengers, 27.7 per cent more than in 2022 and 2.3 per cent more than in 2019. May is the fifth consecutive month in which they have surpassed the figures of four years ago. Of the total travellers recorded in May, 25,417,978 were commercial passengers.
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Flying high Of these, 17,335,127 passen gers travelled on internation al flights, up 14.9 per cent from May 2022. Meanwhile, 8,082,851 pas sengers travelled on domes tic flights, 13.5 per cent more than the same month last year. Adolfo Suárez Madrid Barajas Airport recorded the highest number of passen gers in the fifth month of the year with 5,053,366, repre senting an increase of 16.8 per cent compared with May of last year. It is followed by Barcelona El Prat Josep Tarradellas Air port, with 4,477,108 (+17.2
per cent compared to 2022); Palma de Mallorca Airport, with 3,421,182 (+9.7 per cent); MalagaCosta del Sol Airport, with 2,151,259 (+16.1 per cent); and Ali canteElche Airport, with 1,500,278 (+18 per cent).
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