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Vueling cancels three routes from Alicante-Elche airport

With more than 14.7 million seats, Alicante-Elche Airport is looking forward to a very promising summer. Most airlines are adding new destinations and increasing frequencies, including Ryanair, which flies to Austria and Poland, and EasyJet, which flies to Athens and Naples.

Vueling, another airline with the highest passenger volume, keeps a number of seats comparable to the campaign from last summer, but this time it does not fly to the three locations it served from Alicante-Elche airport.

Rome, Zurich, and Santiago de Compostela are the three routes that the Barcelona-based airline has cancelled. Alicante-Elche airport will still have links to these cities, although with different airlines, even though Vueling has cancelled these routes.

Ryanair and Wizz Air will begin operating this route from March 30th at Rome-Fiumicino Airport, while EasyJet and Swiss International Airlines will operate it from Zurich. The two airlines responsible for service on this route will be Ryanair and Alba Star on the Santiago side.

For both airports, Vueling loses two international routes where it had a significant passenger share. 59,158, or 27.5%, of the 214,614 passengers who flew to Alicante from Rome-Fiumcino Airport in 2024 did so with Vueling. It flew 323 planes in all.

Zurich Airport, on the Swiss side, handled 169,977 passengers. Of these, 39,822 passengers, or 23.4%, took flights with Vueling. The airline battled with Swiss Air, which runs the route year-round, and EasyJet, which launched the service last summer, on a total of 246 flights to the Swiss city.

Travelling to these nations with Vueling is made more difficult by the airline’s continued practice of connecting via stopovers in Barcelona, where it has its headquarters. Wizz Air offers four connections to Rome, whilst Ryanair offers five weekly flights between the two cities. Beginning in mid-April, EasyJet will run four weekly flights on this route from the Zurich side. With everyday flights, Swiss will follow suit.

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21 expensive cars that were stolen in the U.S. were found Valencia port

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.