Spain’s Aena to invest €12.9 billion in upgrading airports during 2027-2031
Spanish airport operator Aena announced on Thursday that it intends to more than triple its investment programme, committing 12.88 billion euros for the 2027–2031 period...
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Politician leading Valencia flood recovery quits amid false degree allegations
A senior figure in the Spanish government overseeing reconstruction efforts in flood-hit Valencia has resigned amid a scandal involving his academic background. José María Ángel...
Chaos at passport control sees hundreds miss flights at Madrid airport
A combination of increased passenger traffic, understaffing and a technical glitch led to major delays at Madrid’s Barajas Airport on Wednesday, resulting in hundreds of...
Ryanair issues ‘league of delays’ table, warning Spain passengers to expect more this summer
Low-cost airline Ryanair has said that it anticipates a rise of up to 20% in flight delays to and from Spain this summer, citing a...
Thousands of rail passengers experience severe delays after copper cable theft
Thousands of rail passengers in Spain experienced significant delays after copper cables essential to the signalling system on a high-speed line from Madrid to Seville...
Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary calls Spanish minister a ‘crazy communist’
Tensions between Ryanair and Spain’s minority coalition government (PSOE–Sumar) have intensified after the Irish low-cost carrier cut several regional routes, citing what it calls ‘excessive’...
Transport discounts and pension increases voted down in Spanish Congress
Spain’s fragile coalition government between the PSOE socialists and the Sumar left-wing umbrella group suffered a significant political setback on Wednesday, after the rejection of...
Catalonia suspends train service, and Barcelona airport is partially flooded
The recurrent storms in eastern Spain that led to massive flooding last week and killed at least 217 people, mostly near Valencia, dumped rain on...
Spain withdraws ambassador to Argentina ‘definitively’, as Milei refuses to apologise
Spain will now ‘definitively’ withdraw its ambassador to Argentina after President Javier Milei refused to apologise for calling Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s wife ‘corrupt’, Spain’s...
Spain and Argentina in diplomatic spat
Spain and Argentina are in a diplomatic spat as the two countries traded barbs over drug-taking and economic decline over the weekend. Poor relations between...
