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Spanish airlines are increasing their seat capacity for the peak travel season (Image: Getty)<\/p>\n
Spanish airlines have announced a major change that will affect flights between April and October. The period marks the country’s peak travel season<\/a>, with millions of travellers expected to jet over to the sunny destination, and as a result, airlines in Spain<\/a> have decided to increase seat capacity by 6%.<\/p>\n It comes amid growing concerns across the wider travel industry due to a slashed fuel supply<\/a> in connection to the Iran war. However, Spanish airlines remain hopeful that tourists will still look to the country for a holiday during the peak season.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Jet2, easyJet, and Ryanair issue ’48-hour warning\u2019 to passengers <\/a><\/p>\n READ MORE: Ryanair, TUI, Jet2 ,easyJet, send passengers summer holidays letter to ministers <\/a><\/p>\n According to Majorca Daily Bulletin<\/a>, the rise is equivalent to around 260 million extra seats and is in line with Spain’s 5.9% passenger growth last year. However, industry experts have warned that inflation<\/a>, geopolitical tensions and economic uncertainty could significantly affect demand.<\/p>\n President of the Spanish Airlines Association, ALA, Javier Gandara, said that “the outlook is good” when speaking at a news conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n “The 6% increase shows confidence that many people will want to visit Spain \u2060this summer, and part of that demand is traffic diverted from conflict zones and \u200bneighbouring \u200bareas,” he continued.<\/p>\n Route expansions will be focused on in coastal regions, including Alicante and Andalusia, with the capacity increasing by 14% and 8%, respectively. Airports in popular cities such as Madrid and Barcelona will see an 8% increase in available seats.<\/p>\n Industry bosses expect tourism to remain high during the summer (Image: Getty)<\/p>\n Mr Gandara noted that while airlines are hopeful of a thriving summer season, demand remains unclear.<\/p>\n We are facing a much more uncertain situation this year, with developments changing by the minute,” he said.<\/p>\n Spanish airlines are relatively protected from the fuel supply chaos, as more than 80% of their jet fuel comes from domestic refineries rather than the Middle East. According to the ALA, only 11% of its crude oil is sourced from the Middle East.<\/p>\n International airports serving Spain are also not expected to change their fares, as 70% of summer fuel needs to be secured through pre-conflict hedging agreements. However, Spanish low-cost carrier Volotea has introduced a temporary pricing policy linking ticket prices to fuel \u2060costs.<\/p>\n Consumer \u200badvocacy group Facua on Monday called for an investigation into the policy, alleging potential \u200bbreaches of consumer protection laws.<\/p>\n The ALA president said he was unaware of any other Spanish airlines implementing similar measures, adding: “We always \u200cexpect that each company should be free to set its business strategy within the regulatory and legal framework”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spanish airlines are increasing their seat capacity for the peak travel season (Image: Getty) Spanish airlines have announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[950,6111,6114,6120,6119,6118,6117,6113,17,6112,6116,6121,6122,6115],"class_list":{"0":"post-9591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-flights","9":"tag-fuel-economy","10":"tag-fuel-supply-concerns","11":"tag-holiday-news","12":"tag-holiday-trip","13":"tag-increased-flights","14":"tag-increased-seat-capacity","15":"tag-seat-capacity-increase","16":"tag-spain","17":"tag-spain-airlines","18":"tag-spanish-airline-flights","19":"tag-spanish-tourism","20":"tag-tourism-updates","21":"tag-volotea-pricing-policy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Crowded](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/crowded-beach-in-spain-at-mediterranean-sea-6877080.jpg\" "\\"Crowded")
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