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PLAY airline expands with flights to Alicante and Madrid

Play, the low-cost airline of Iceland, wants to add more flights between Spain and Iceland in 2025 to meet high demand, especially around Easter and during the summer.

During Easter, the company will start flying every day from Alicante to Reykjavik, a time when a lot more people are likely to be travelling. From the end of May to the end of July, it will fly five times a week during the summer. Other times of the year, it will fly three to four times a week between Alicante and the city of Iceland. In Madrid, on the other hand, there will be more flights. From the beginning of August to the middle of September, there will be three times as many flights as there are now. During the rest of the year, there will only be two flights a week.

“This improved connection with Spain is part of PLAY’s plan to grow, which is to strengthen its presence in the places where it has seen the most growth over the last three years.” With these new frequencies, PLAY shows its dedication to the Spanish market and makes it even easier for tourists to get to Iceland, which is becoming more and more popular among nature and adventure visitors. Also, the Mediterranean way of life is very appealing to Icelanders who want to go on vacation somewhere sunny, so this rise in frequencies with Spain will help us get a bigger share of the local market, says Einar Örn Ólafsson, CEO of PLAY.

Reykjavik can now be reached by PLAY from Barcelona, Madrid, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Alicante, Malaga, and Palma de Mallorca in Spain. In preparation for the summer, it will have a bigger presence in the country when the Valencia-Reykjavik route opens in May.

At the end of 2017, PLAY said it would be changing its business plan to focus on the most profitable markets, which are those in southern Europe. These markets have been very popular since the company began doing business there in 2021. To keep growing in the European airline industry, the company continues to focus on providing affordable and flexible travel choices, changing to meet the needs of the market, and making the most of its route network.

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Together with the US Container Security Initiative, the Guardia Civil and the Tax Agency found 21 high-end cars that were stolen in the U.S. and were on their way to Africa in the port of Valencia. The cars, which were worth a total of €1.1 million, were reported stolen and were being moved in containers.

The cars were stolen in the U.S. and were on their way to different places in Africa, stopping in Valencia’s port. Risk analysis units made up of Guardia Civil and Tax Agency officers were able to find several packages that might not have had the goods that were claimed to have been inside.

With the help of the information gathered, it was confirmed that stolen cars that had been in Valencia on their way to the United States had actually arrived. The groups that ship stolen cars either traded legally declared cars for stolen ones or directly declared the stolen cars as other goods, like furniture or mattresses.

In the past few weeks, 21 vehicles have been found and will be sent back to their home countries to be given to their original owners.

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14 immigrants were saved on a boat 45 miles off the coast of Alicante

On Wednesday, 2nd April, the Maritime Rescue ship Salvamar Leo saved 14 immigrants who were travelling in a boat about 45 miles from Alicante.

In the middle of the afternoon on Wednesday, Maritime Rescue sent out its Helimer 223 helicopter and the Salvamar Leo, which is based in Alicante, to save the people on a small boat.

Their journey began on the Salvamar Leo, which took them to the Temporary Assistance Centre for Foreigners in the port of Alicante. There, the Red Cross took care of them.

The Red Cross says that all of the refugees they saved were men, and two of them were younger than 15 years old. They were all healthy after being treated.

The National Police took over the refugees after getting help from the Red Cross. They are now trying to find the boat’s captain so they can arrest him, as is normal in these situations.

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Dénia wrestler arrested in connection with a network that smuggled 300 kilos of cocaine from Ecuador

The National Police’s Drugs and Organised Crime Unit arrested a famous mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter from Dénia. He was part of a gang that was partly broken up in August over a shipment of 300 kg of cocaine from Ecuador that came into the port of Valencia. The fighter from Dénia is one of five people who were caught by police. Along with nine other gang members who were already in jail at the time, they are now in jail.

The man who was arrested in Dénia is thought to be the trusted man of the gang’s leader, who is also an MMA fighter, and the person who is said to have worked as a go-between in the operation.

Levante-EMV also says that the broken-down network is linked to another shipment of 490 kg of cocaine that came into the port of Valencia in April of last year.

The five people who were just caught went before Valencia’s Investigative Court No. 20 yesterday, April 3rd.