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Vueling offers 1.5 million additional seats to Spain’s airports and fills Ryanair’s shoes

Vueling steps in to fill Ryanair's shoes and offers Spain's airports 1.5 million new seats

VUELING announces a major increase in its winter schedule, with 1.5 million additional seats available across Santiago de Compostela & Tenerife Norte. The expansion is coming just weeks after Ryanair revealed it would reduce capacity and close bases at both airports. This sparked warnings of “tourism disasters” in the region. Vueling is part of IAG and will have its largest …

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GUEST COLUMN: What can a small town in Austria teach Spain about tackling its housing crisis?

In a first guest column for the Olive Press, regular reader and commenter Mark Leonard took the time to write about his experiences in the Austrian Alps. Are you an avid Olive Press reader? Got lots of ideas and comments when you read our articles? Got a hankering to write your own guest column for the Olive Press? Get in …

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Barcelona residents fight controversial Thyssen museum project over ‘property speculation’ fears

Barcelona residents fight controversial Thyssen museum project over ‘property speculation’ fears

Plans to transform one of Barcelona’s best-known cinemas into the new Thyssen museum has sparked anger among locals, who say that it is nothing but property speculation masquerading as culture. The Federation of Neighbourhood Associations of Barcelona is leading the opposition against the nine-storey project at the former Cinema Comedia, in the city’s Eixample District. Developers are accused of trying …

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