Overview
- The Consorcio de Turismo y Congresos de A Coruña has opened a multi‑lot public tender for five domestic routes from Alvedro to Málaga, Valencia, Bilbao, Sevilla and Alicante with a base budget of €4.93 million for 2026–2029 and an optional extension that raises the total to €6.62 million.
- Tender rules set strict operational safeguards including minimum annual flights (for example 208 to Málaga and Valencia, 288 to Sevilla initially), aircraft with at least 100 seats, a two‑month start deadline for inactive routes and limited cancellation only after year one for competitor entry or sustained occupancy under 60%.
- Inditex has committed €1.5 million over 2026–2027, with €500,000 up front, to fund airport connectivity and promotion directed at opening or consolidating international links to Lisbon, Paris, London and Istanbul and to support major city events.
- Airlines awarded national lots must run coordinated promotion for the city, send newsletters to databases of at least 400,000 recipients, give 20 annual seats per route for familiarization trips and meet on‑board and airport visibility requirements tied to the contract.
- The package provoked political pushback from other Galician cities that say the plan duplicates services at nearby airports and exposes the lack of a regional coordination framework, leaving approval of the tender and the international route procurement and airline responses as the next steps.