Spanair Launches New Charter Program to Madrid from Domodedovo Airport

OREANDA-NEWS. July 13, 2010. Spanish airline Spanair operates its charter program to Madrid (Spain) from Moscow Domodedovo Airport by Airbus A321.

Spanish air carrier Spanair S.A. established in Palma de Mallorka is based in Barcelona Airport. It operates domestic flights as well as international flights to Europe and the Western Africa.

The airline was established on 1986 while the first flights – that time only charters – were operated in 1988. Since 1994 Spanair has been performing scheduled flights. From 1997 till 2002 the airline offered inter continental flights to South America and the USA however in 2002 Spanair refused from its own flights and since then has been operating only code-sharing services. Spanair has been a member of Star Alliance since 2003.

Moscow Domodedovo Airport is the largest airport of Russia. Its market share in total passenger traffic in Moscow makes 46%. At the moment 75 partner airlines (47 foreign including 12 representing the CIS States and 28 Russian) connecting over 230 destinations operate flights all over the world. The unique route network covered by Domodedovo partner airlines provides for 92 exclusive destinations. In 2009 18,7 million passengers benefited from Domodedovo services.