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Spanish Airports and Air Navigation (AENA) has launched today at the aerodrome of Málaga a service of airline information via SMS. Thus users can know in which terminal operates their company through this messaging service on their mobile phone.

With the coming into operation of T3 from Malaga airport, many airlines will change their location, so this service will provide users information about where to go, said today the airport operator through a statement.

For this, the traveler simply has to send the name of the airline or the ICAO or IATA codes to the number 27472 and he will receive a reply SMS to his mobile phone. The cost of the message is 0.35 €, VAT included, for users of national carriers.

Also, AENA has enabled a web on the T3 (www.aena.es/t3malaga) in order to publicize the new terminal, which opens to the public next March 16.

Similarly, it has a telephone information service, 902 404 704, for all its users, which is operational 24 hours 365 days a year.

The airline Vueling has announced the increase in the frequency of flights between the cities of Santiago de Compostela and Málaga, including one daily flight which will operate in both directions.

Thus, as confirmed by the company, the option will be available between the 24^th of June and the 14^th of September and will depart daily at 19.40 PM from Santiago to Malaga and in the reverse direction at 17.40 PM.

Similarly, between the 28^th of March and the 23^rd of June will operate flights between the two Spanish cities four days a week – Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays – at 17.55 PM from Santiago to Malaga and at 15.00 PM from Malaga to Santiago.

During the summer season, Vueling will carry out up to 16 daily operations from Santiago to Barcelona, Paris, Zurich and Malaga and 34 from across Galicia to Barcelona, Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Paris, Seville, Zurich and Malaga.

Thus, the Spanish low cost company seeks to take advantage of the Compostela Holy Year which attracts thousands of pilgrims willing to do the Camino de Santiago (Way of St. James), an offer which sums both Spanish and international followers.

Spanish Airports and Air Navigation (Aena) has set up a website on the Terminal 3 at Malaga airport, whose address is ‘www.aena.es/t3malaga’, with the objective of providing information and to publicize the new terminal, which will open to the public next March 16th.

The website is designed to familiarize all users with the new facility so that guests and passengers can check the means of transport arriving at the terminal, where to check in or how to get around the building, according to the Ministry of Development.

The contents are presented in Spanish, English and German and are accessible to persons with disabilities, said through a statement, which added that thanks to this new website, passengers can look at which terminal is operating their airline and know in advance where you check in.

You can also find information about the different means of transport to get to the terminal T3 -bus, taxi, train or private vehicle, Aid for people with reduced mobility or the shops and catering services offered in the new terminal area.

As noted, to facilitate the familiarization with this modern infrastructure, the Web has added a virtual tour of the new terminal, a video and an extensive photo gallery of the facilities.

Finally, there is also a telephone information service that is operational 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Furthermore, in the coming days there will be will enabled an SMS information service whereby the user can see in which terminal his airline operates and where to check in.

‘Málaga en el aire’ shows in the hall Didier Daurat the work of five author.

Pablo Ruiz Picasso Airport Malaga wishes to highlight its eminent openness towards travelers of different nationalities with art samples by five authors with the common denominator of living in Torremolinos, Malaga .

Thus the artists Sandra Martinez, Francisco Martín, Claudia Cadario, Jose Maria Olid and Leonardo Martin Gago are attending this exhibition which bears the title of Malaga al aire (Malaga into the air) and which also alludes to the imminent opening of its new terminal T3, where is projected the possibility of including the central ceramic mural of Sandra Martinez with the motifs of travelers from different origins.

The motifs from African women to women with shawls are symbolizing this miscellany of concordance and globalization present at Picasso Airport, one of the mayor meeting points between destinations on different continents.
In other works is highlighted the mediterranean condition of the place as for instance in The Flight of Icarus or Women with waves also recalls the Works of Malaga’s most universal artist, Pablo Picasso, after whom was named the airport.

The exhibition takes place in the hall Didier Daurat and the visiting hours are from Monday to Sunday from 10:00 to 14:00 and 17:00 to 20:00.

The future AVE in Andalusia will be the first high-speed line which will have a station in an airport. The railway council has signed up the construction of the complete route of the high-speed corridor between Seville and Antequera (Malaga) and part of the sections Seville to Seville airport. This section will be operational in 2013.

A conversion of the rails to the High Speed Rails will link the cities of Seville and Malaga, Granada and Almeria at 55, 75 and 180 minutes respectively, while the Malaga-Granada route will be covered in 50 minutes. The axis is also connected with high-speed rail lines to Cadiz, Cordoba and Jaen.

The AVE Malaga has been introduced in tourism in a clear way, becoming an important means of transport which tourists take into consideration when selecting their destination and how to get there. Now, tourists have in mind that the AVE has become not only an option but an option with a lot of weight.

On the other hand, the business collectives of Marbella have claimed on numerous occasions an impulse for the rail corridor, a chapter whose resolution is still pending on funding and on whose trails could move high-speed trains, which would facilitate enormously tourism along the Costa del Sol.

Currently, tourists with final destination Marbella still have to suffer inconveniences arriving at Malaga train station or Malaga airport. On one hand, the high cost of taxis. Otherwise, the endless routes of some bus lines. What is gained in speed is lost in the travel time between Malaga and Marbella.
The future AVE will have more capacity and this increase in the number of seats will allow a reduction in ticket price and so their services are more attractive compared to the car and the low cost airlines, its direct competitors.