Vueling to open base at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Second base for Vueling outside Spain
Vueling plans to open a base at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in April 2011. This was announced today by Alex Cruz, member of the Vueling Board of Directors, in the presence of representatives including Jos Nijhuis, President & CEO of Schiphol Group and Erik van der Burg, vice mayor of the city of Amsterdam.
Vueling is the first airline to start a base at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol after KLM, Transavia, Martinair, ArkeFly and Amsterdam Airlines. For Vueling, Schiphol is its second base outside Spain. In early November the company also announced plans to open a base at Toulouse airport in 2011.
6,000 extra seats
In the first phase Vueling plans to station one aircraft (an Airbus A 320) at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The arrival of Vueling will add around 6,000 extra seats on flights to mainly Spanish destinations, so Dutch passengers will clearly benefit. From April 2011, Vueling will add 28 scheduled flights to its operations at Schiphol. In addition, the airline will offer a couple of new destinations: Zürich, Alicante and Palma de Mallorca. During the summer months Vueling adds also Ibiza, Secilla and La Coruna to its network.
"We are honoured to have been selected by Vueling as its second base outside Spain, and by its decision to expand the number of flights from Schiphol. This is good news for employment at and around the airport. It will also help to enhance the network of destinations that can be reached from Schiphol - to the benefit of both holidaymakers and business travellers," says Jos Nijhuis.
Ales Cruz: "We launched flights to and from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in October 2005. Since then it has been growing in a steady but consolidated basis. The company has transported nearly two million passengers through Schiphol since then. The creation of this new international base shows, then, the commitment we have with the Netherlands and the Dutch people."
Vueling
Vueling operates year-round flights from Schiphol to Barcelona, Malaga and Valencia. The airline's head office is in Barcelona. In 2010 Vueling transported more than 9.5 million passengers to 50 destinations in Europe.
