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International flights Asturias Spain to London Frankfurt Munich Rome

Asturias starts a record year with direct flights to twelve international destinations

The current routes to Amsterdam, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Rome, Dublin, London and Paris will be joined by connections to Milan-Bergamo and Lisbon at the end of March.

Lufthansa will reach Asturias for the first time with five flights a week to Frankfurt and Munich from 23 April

Venice could join the list of direct destinations from Asturias airport

In 2023 Asturias airport is set to have the largest direct flight offer to international destinations in its history. By the end of April, the region will have non-stop connections to eleven destinations in eight countries, to which we should add another more than likely connection to Venice.

International flights Asturias Spain to London Frankfurt Munich Rome

In addition to the routes already in operation to Paris, London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Rome and Dublin, Volotea will start operating connections to Milan-Bergamo and Lisbon at the end of March.

These will be joined by the arrival in Asturias of the German airline Lufthansa, which will connect the Asturian airport with Frankfurt and Munich from 23 April.

And the regional Government wants to launch an administrative process that will allow direct flights this summer between Asturias and Venice.

Investment by the Government of Asturias to improve the region’s air links

This growth in direct routes from Asturias to international destinations comes after the Government of Asturias invested almost nine million euros in a public tender for air promotion. This investment was designed, among other things, to promote the economic development of the region and the arrival of investment.

The tender was won by Ryanair, Vueling and Volotea. Ryanair earmarked the aid to offer, from November 2022, flights to Düsseldorf, Brussels and Rome, to which it added Dublin and London Stansted Airport. Vueling connects the region with Paris, Amsterdam and London Gatwick, while Volotea will start in March with routes to Lisbon and Milan.

And thanks to this regional Government plan, Asturias airport closed 2022 with a total of 1,454,763 passengers, 2.6% more than in 2019. 106,405 passengers were foreigners, a figure that was 67.7% higher than in 2019. This consolidation is due to the dynamism shown by the recovery of international traffic, according to AENA.

In 2019, the last year before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Asturian airport was used by 1,417,912 passengers. Of these, only 4% had an international origin or destination. That year, the region only had one fixed international destination, London, to which Volotea’s summer flights to Venice and Munich were added.

The 1.5 millionth traveller arrived for the first time in 2007 and only repeated the visit a year later. It is foreseeable that by the end of 2023, this figure will have been far exceeded.

In the domestic offer of Asturias airport, in addition to the existing routes that will continue throughout the year to Madrid, Barcelona, Majorca, Alicante, Valencia, Malaga, Seville, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Lanzarote, those to Murcia, Minorca and Ibiza will be added, and also, in all probability, Granada.

Asturias thus reaches 27 direct destinations to nine countries and improves its strategic connections.

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Photo: Lufthansa

Lufthansa arrives for the first time in Asturias

From the end of April, Asturias will have five direct flights a week to the German cities of Frankfurt and Munich, operated by Lufthansa. Both are the company’s main hubs and two of the largest in Europe.

The leading German airline is coming to our region for the first time, and it is doing so without financial support, either public or private.

These two new routes from Asturias to international destinations represent a giant leap forward in improving connectivity in our region. The arrival of Lufthansa will offer Asturias a global connection to more than 200 destinations worldwide, through the business group itself, its partners and Star Alliance.

“Asturias will finally have global connectivity; with a single hop, through the flight hubs in Frankfurt and Munich, we will be able to reach a higher number of destinations”, says Jorge García, Vice-Minister of Infrastructure, Mobility, and Territory of the Government of Asturias.

These connections operated by Lufthansa will contribute to economic development and also to promoting the Asturias Natural Paradise brand in all the destinations of the airline’s network.

An airport at the centre of life in Asturias

The airport is “a key player in the life of Asturias, a fundamental actor in contributing to its development”, says Carlos San Martín, who has been its director for the last thirteen years.

“The region has great potential, not only in terms of tourism, but also as a business opportunity. These are the singularities: that it is a major player in the development of the destination and the great involvement of all the institutions that see that the airport is strategic,” says San Martín.

1 February, 2023 /  
British Crimtan sets up in Asturias

British multinational Crimtan to manage from Asturias its expansion plan for Spain and Southern Europe

The company, specialized in online marketing and digital advertising, is setting up in La Pipa (Gijón). Its initial plans are to create 24 jobs, with the possibility of greater figures

It is the eleventh project to come to Asturias as part of the Regional Government’s Investment Attraction Strategy

The British multinational Crimtan Holdings Ltd., specialized in advertising and digital marketing, has announced today its establishment in Asturias from where it will direct its expansion plans in the national market and its growth in the countries of Southern Europe.

The company will develop its activities for Spain from the business centre La Pipa, in Gijón, through the subsidiary Crimtan Esp S.L. constituted last December. Its initial plans are to create 24 jobs, with the possibility of greater figures, with a workforce specialized in programmatic advertising, analytics, data science and artificial intelligence (AI).

  • British Crimtan sets up in Asturias
  • Paul Goad CEO Crimtan multinational in Asturias
  • Alex Lawton Remotive Crimtan in Asturias
  • Crimtan sets up in Asturias Spain
Photos courtesy of Matt Humphrey.

The project has been presented this morning in a public event chaired by the Regional Minister of Industry, Employment and Economic Promotion, Enrique Fernández, with the participation of Paul Goad, CEO of Crimtan, and several company managers. Alex Lawton, promoter of the technological ecosystem La Pipa, as well as the general manager of the Economic Development Agency of Asturias (IDEPA), Eva Pando, attended the event.

A regional strategy to attract foreign investment to Asturias

Crimtan is the eleventh project to come to Asturias in the framework of the Investment Attraction Strategy launched by the Regional Government to mitigate the effects of the health pandemic and boost the revival of the Asturian economy.

The strategy is coordinated by IDEPA and is implemented as a public-private partnership with the participation of the Chambers of Commerce, the Asturian Federation of Enterprises (FADE) and the think tanks Compromiso Asturias XXI and Asturias Power.

This project joins those confirmed by Mind Facilities Management, Bedrock Intelligence Group, TEAM EQ, Preco, Sea Eight, Indaer, TSFOT, Sialtrónica, Quirónsalud and NuevaRed Global.

With the implementation of Crimtan, the strategy totals a volume of investment of close to 200 million euros with an estimated 722 jobs, most of them highly qualified in the ICT, engineering and health sectors. 

The Regional Minister of Industry expressed his satisfaction for the implementation of Crimtan in Asturias, a decision that “confirms that Asturias is becoming a pole of attraction of investments with great potential in areas such as ICT”. He highlighted the growth potential of the company and the possibilities that open up for the creation of new jobs in technical profiles of high added value.

The Crimtan project in Asturias

From Asturias, Crimtan will provide a range of services related to digital advertising, including display, video, native advertising, outdoors and connected TV advertising.

According to the company’s plans, from Asturias it will directly contact the companies for which it provides advertising services, with its main customer profile being tourism and retail e-commerce companies.

The company’s two-year target is to serve the whole of Spain and to expand into southern Europe thereafter, while maintaining its centre of operations in the region.

Although it initially envisages the creation of 24 jobs over three years, the company has indicated that the investment and number of employees will increase considerably in case it opens satellite offices in Madrid and Barcelona. 

To this end, it is already working with the University of Oviedo to create training programmes in programmatic advertising, analytics, data science and Artificial Intelligence and to develop training programmes to meet future staffing needs in its commercial and business activities.

The company will be based in Gijón and will work with the Remotive agency, providing services to agencies based in Madrid and Barcelona. It will evolve to service direct partnerships with local online publishers. Its location in La Pipa is the result of collaboration agreements signed with Asturian companies Bedrock Humanised Intelligence and Remotive, both based in this area, with the continued support of IDEPA.

British multinational with offices in eight countries and global leader clients

Crimtan Holdings Ltd. was founded in 2009 and is based in London. It is a smart lifecycle marketing company with proprietary technology that enables targeted, high-performing programmatic advertising campaigns for well-known global retail, travel, education, and finance brands.

The company offers its clients a complete lifecycle marketing solution, the set of stages a product goes through from its introduction to the market until its withdrawal.

It has offices in St Petersburg, Dubai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and New York. Current clients include Ikea, Toshiba, Hurtigrutten, Avis, Woolworth, Matches Fashion, Ferrero Rocher, Japanese Airlines, Fly Dubai and UNICEF.

Its specialization in new forms of advertising and digital marketing and the expectations of growth of this business in the Spanish market as a result of the changes driven by COVID-19 are some reasons for its establishment in Asturias.

Spain, in this sense, is one of the largest advertising markets in Europe. The programmatic advertising market in our country is currently estimated at 4.1 billion euros and is expected to grow rapidly over the next 4 years to reach 6 billion euros.

10 January, 2023 /  
The Colombian multinational Indaer sets up its operational base for Europe and the Middle East in Asturias.

Colombian aeronautical multinational Indaer sets up in Asturias its operational base for Europe and the Middle East

The office will be located in the Technology Park of Asturias, in Llanera, where Indaer expects to create up to ten highly qualified jobs

The Colombian aeronautical multinational Indaer has just opened a new brand, permanent office in Asturias. A project advised within the framework of the Invest in Asturias programme by the Economic Development Agency of the Principality of Asturias (IDEPA), aimed at attracting investment to our region.

The opening reinforces the presence in Europe and the Middle East of Indaer, a leading company in aircraft lifecycle support solutions.

22 February, 2022 /  

Sontara invests 7.63 million euros in the factory of Tamón with the support of the Government of Asturias

US company Glatfelter, owner of the Asturian factory, receives a 1.89 million euro grant to improve energy efficiency

Sontara Asturias is undertaking an investment of 7.63 million euros in its Tamón factory in order to increase the speed of its line of nonwoven fabrics for sanitary use and improve the energy efficiency of the facilities. The Government of Asturias is backing this investment with a grant of 1.89 million euros.

The first plan of the company, owned by the US company Glatfelter, consists of improving the energy efficiency of the main production line of the factory through specific actions in the winding and hydro braiding processes.

10 February, 2022 /  

The Campus of Mieres, a business incubator with the University of Oviedo as an ally

The Research Building of this University environment offers space for the installation of businesses

The Campus of Mieres favours relations between the university, industry, entrepreneurs, and investors

Choosing the right location is a fundamental step when setting up a business or moving to a new site. And Asturias has suitable spaces for different company profiles.

For example, the Research Building on the Campus of Mieres, located in a knowledge environment as important as the University of Oviedo.

The first floor of this building houses a business incubator that currently consists of three spaces of between 39 and 49 useful square metres.

3 November, 2021 /  
A full view of Asturias capabilities at the Global Investment Convention GIC III

A full view of Asturias capabilities at the Global Investment Convention GIC III

Invest in Asturias was part of this digital event, aimed at potential investors from all over the world

Invest in Asturias took part this week in the Global Investment Convention GIC III, a prestigious digital event for potential investors and investment agencies all over the world managed by Crescendo Worldwide.

During this convention, we showed the strong capabilities of Asturias for attracting investment in sectors like metal, innovative manufacturing, health, or Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

22 October, 2021 /  
Eva Pando IDEPA Industrial Scale Additive Manufacturing Forum by TRIDITIVE

Additive Manufacturing Forum by TRIDITIVE, in search for the modernization of Asturias industry

Additive manufacturing for serial production opens new opportunities for the digital transformation of the industrial fabric

Under the name of “The Additive Revolution”, Asturian company TRIDITIVE organized recently in Siero, Asturias, the second Industrial Scale Additive Manufacturing Forum. An event focused on the new opportunities of additive manufacturing for serial production and the impact on the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry.

  • Eva Pando IDEPA Industrial Scale Additive Manufacturing Forum by TRIDITIVE
  • TRIDITIVE FOXCONN Industrial Scale Additive Manufacturing Forum
  • Mariel Díaz Industrial Scale Additive Manufacturing Forum by TRIDITIVE
  • Raül Blanco Industrial Scale Additive Manufacturing Forum by TRIDITIVE
  • Aida Nuño Industrial Scale Additive Manufacturing Forum by TRIDITIVE
  • Ramón Rubio Industrial Scale Additive Manufacturing Forum by TRIDITIVE
  • Eva Pando Industrial Scale Additive Manufacturing Forum by TRIDITIVE

Speakers from industry, R&D, entrepreneurship, public entities, and innovation programs provided insights about additive manufacturing in the EU green and digital transition, perspectives of serial production, and entrepreneurship and industrial innovation in Asturias and Spain.

11 October, 2021 /  
PMG Asturias Powder Metal IDEPA 2021 Business Growth Award

PMG Asturias Powder Metal, awarded with the IDEPA 2021 Business Growth Award

After 25 years in Asturias, its constant investments have allowed the development of a high value-added industrial activity in the automotive sector

The Economic Development Agency of the Principality of Asturias (IDEPA) has awarded the IDEPA 2021 Award for Business Growth to PMG Asturias Powder Metal.

Part of PMG – Powder Metal Goldschmidt, PMG Asturias Powder Metal is a foreign capital company with a 25-year history in Mieres, Asturias. Its constant investment has allowed the development of a high added value industrial activity, such as the manufacture of mechanical components using sintered technology for the automotive industry.

24 September, 2021 /  
Amazon construye un centro logístico en Asturias Siero

Amazon accelerates its setting up in Asturias as a major hub in northwest Spain

It is building a sortable fulfillment center in Siero, which will be one of the largest in southern Europe and will create around 2,000 jobs

It also announces the construction of a delivery station in Gijón and investments in its Meres receive center

Amazon is betting on Asturias as its major centre of operations for northwest Spain and part of Portugal. The US logistics and e-commerce global player is making good progress in the construction of its new sortable fulfillment center in Siero and plans to build a delivery station in Gijón and improve the receive center it has in Meres (Siero).

19 August, 2021 /  
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