Air Nostrum yesterday inaugurated the route between Andorra-La Seu d'Urgell airport and Palma airport, which will be extended as a pilot test. The ATR-72 plane, with 41 passengers, left Mallorca at nine in the morning and landed in La Seu at ten. Then he returned to Son Sant Joan with 17 people. There will be flights every Friday and Sunday. For this Sunday, the forecast is that it will leave with 32 passengers, and the return to Son Sant Joan, with 49.
The Andorran Government finances this new route which is added to the regular route between Andorra-la-Seu and Madrid, which has been offered by the same company for two years and which also operates on Friday and Sunday. In this time, La Seu d'Urgell airport has received more than 19,000 passengers, including users of the Air Nostrum route and those of corporate aviation.
The Minister of Territory, Ester Capella, and the Minister of Tourism and Commerce of Andorra, Jordi Torres, received the passengers of the first flight.
Capella stated that the airport is synonymous with the success of the collaboration between the Catalan and Andorran governments, and the minister emphasized the importance of this new route "with the aim of continuing to grow, we are starting this link with the Balearic Islands, a market very interested in visiting us and with which we hope to have a successful connection". Torres insisted that this is a milestone that has been achieved after an extensive tour of the Pyrenean airport: "Three days from now it will be nine years since this infrastructure was reopened for public and commercial use and since then all the parties involved have worked non-stop to overcome milestones that have brought us to where we are today, from the small reforms that have made the airport more functional and pleasant for passengers, to major goals already achieved such as the application of instrumental landings based only on satellite navigation or the establishment of a regular line that has already been operating for two years, that of Madrid".
Air Nostrum reported that the ticket price will cost from 50 euros per flight, with a 75% discount for residents living in the Balearic Islands. The company announced that it will facilitate the internal connection with the airports of Ibiza and Menorca with the same flight ticket between Andorra and Palma.
"For us, this flight is another example of the good collaboration between public administrations, in this case the Generalitat, since the airport is theirs, also the Government of Spain and, needless to say, the Principality of Andorra, which is ultimately the promoter of this new line", added the mayor of La Seu d'Urgell, Joan Barrera, who showed his confidence in the fact that the test will go well and have continuity
