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Air Comet Begins Service
With Inaugural Flight
From Madrid to San José
The Spanish airline, Air
Comet, yesterday landed
its first flight at the
Juan Santamaría (San
José) international
airport, beginning a new
service that will carry
some 46.000 passengers
yearly from the "old"
continent as Spain is
considered by Costa
Ricans.
Air Comet will offer
three flights weekly,
offering prices as low
as us$437 for a return
flight between Madrid
and San José.
Ricardo Benavides, Costa
Rican Tourism minister,
said that the
inauguration of the Air
Comet flights allows
more Europeans access to
Costa Rica, not only by
offering lower prices
but also pushing down
prices of the
competition, positioning
Costa Rica as a more
attractive destination
from Europe.
The Instituto
Costarricense de Turismo
(ICT) estimates that Air
Comet will carry some
23.000 passengers to
Costa Rica in the next
six months, hence the
46.000 annual figure.
Air Comer is using
Airbus A-330 aircrafts
for the route which has
a capacity of 298
passengers.
The direct flight from
Madrid allows
connections to Rome,
Londong and Paris, for
example, opening cheaper
flights to San José from
more European cities.
Costa Rica expects to
close 2007 with 650.000
more passengers over
2006, which would mean a
total of 2.2 million
tourists.
In the past week all the
U.S. airlines have added
more flights to Costa
Rica. For example,
Continental with three
flights daily, offered
five during the past
weekend. Delta has added
one more daily flight
into San José, as well
as newcomer Spirit
Airlines with a dailyred
eye from Fort
Lauderdale. For now,
American Airlines is
keeping its daily
flights to four,
however, US Air added
one extra flight this
past week, meeting the
demands of more U.S.
vacationers who are
choosing Costa Rica this
year.
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Air Comet
is offering direct flights from Madrid,
Spain, to San José, Costa Rica, for only
us$437 return. |
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