Fetave ha defendido este jueves una política de incentivos "abierta y transparente", accesible a todas las aerolíneas que "aporten nuevas rutas", evitando "trajes a medidas" que distorsionen el mercado, después de que Ryanair anunciara ayer recortes de plazas en España para el invierno. Para la patronal de agencias de viajes, el anuncio de la irlandesa reabre "un debate complejo" en el que confluyen la conectividad de los destinos, la competencia en "igualdad de condiciones" y la sostenibilidad del crecimiento turístico, según un comunicado. En este sentido, ha reconocido que, para muchos terr...

La producción colombiana de café se situó en los 1,24 millones de sacos de 60 kilogramos en agosto, lo que supone un crecimiento del 19% frente al mismo mes del año anterior, según avanzó el presidente de la Federación Nacional de Cafeteros, Germán Bahamón Jaramillo, en su cuenta de X. En los últimos doce meses, la producción ascendió a 14,79 millones de sacos, una cifra que supone un incremento interanual del 18%, mientras que el acumulado en lo que va de año aumentó un 10%, hasta los 8,83 millones de sacos. El resultado prolonga el impulso registrado en julio y "refleja el desfase en la cose...

Pope Leo XIV has received the chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, Georg Bätzing, for an audience in the Vatican. It was the first official meeting between Bätzing and Leo since his election as pope last May. The Holy See initially did not provide any details about the content of the discussions. Bätzing expressed gratitude for the meeting and the "good and substantive conversation." Bätzing said in a statement that the pope was "an attentive listener and interested pastor." The two are said to have discussed a range of different topics, which Bätzing intends to report on at the plenary...

Deliberate Russian interference is believed to be behind an increasing number of jamming attacks on aircraft navigation systems, Swedish transport authorities reported in releasing figures for the year to date on Thursday. The authorities have recorded 733 instances in which satellite-based navigation systems, such as GPS, were jammed. The figure is well up from the 495 recorded for the whole of last year and 13 times the figure of 55 found in 2023. "This is serious and poses a safety risk to civil aviation," transport authority spokesman Andreas Holmgren said. He stressed that pilots had fall...

A controversial construction project by luxury car magnate Wolfgang Porsche in the Austrian city of Salzburg has cleared a key hurdle after receiving approval from a municipal committee. The committee responsible for spatial planning backed plans for an underground car park beneath Porsche's property, along with a 500-metre private tunnel to be drilled into the Kapuzinerberg hill. The decision is not yet final and must still be reviewed by the provincial government of Salzburg. Opponents of the plans, the Green and Communist parties, argued that the tunnel would also have to be approved in thi...