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Ryanair flights in Bilbao

The Irish lowcost airline Ryanair announced on 4 August this month that will operate at the airport in Bilbao. The news caught by surprise even Jon Gangoiti, director of Bilbao Air. And is that Ryanair in most cities where it operates is due to subsidies from local authorities. In the case of Bilbao, it seems that these subsidies come from the Basque Government and Iñaki Arriola team.

Ryanair will operate, in principle, from October at the airport of the Dove (Loiu) and currently only plans to do national tours. This opens the door for cheaper options to visit several capitals of the peninsula, and vice versa.

Ryanair is also one of the airlines but fame has in the European aviation industry and has not won much sympathy for the way they reach Bilbao. Whether you want to install at the airport in Bilbao thanks to subsidies, while other airlines have done so because they have opted for Bilbao and its capacity as tourist city, it does not look with favor from the beginning. October will have to wait and see if eventually only make domestic flights or decide to open the way to Europe and the confidence that the people to fly with Ryanair to Bilbao Bilbao.

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La Paloma: Bilbao Airport

La Paloma, popular name that is known to Bilbao Airport (IATA: BIO), is located in Loiu about 5 miles from Bilbao.

Bilbao Airport was built by Santiago Calatrava (also author of Zubizuri) Ave shaped, hence the name La Paloma, using glass and concrete, and predominantly white. Likewise, the airport control tower is shaped like a hawk.

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Control Tower at Bilbao Airport

The airport has two landing strip (about 2 miles each), 36 desks and 12 gates. An important factor is that it has 3000 parking spaces plus 27 additional parking "express" (less than 30 minutes).

For passengers arriving in Bilbao by plane, remember that in addition to the taxi, have Bizkaibus A3247 line with a frequency of 20 minutes connecting to central Bilbao. Also for 2012 will be available by EuskoTren connection with Bilbao and Bilbao Metro.

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Bilbao Airport Detail