Ryanair has moved into direct competition with tour operators by selling bonded package holidays alongside its flights.
The Irish airline claimed it would “transform the market” as it launched Ryanair Holidays online, claiming to undercut competitors by offering rooms at 330,000 hotels across Europe with the cheapest flight seats.
The move comes more than five years after rivals EasyJet launched a similar service.
Environmentalists have piled pressure on Spain over its sprawling Donaña wetlands, a UNESCO World Heritage site they believe is at risk and could be put on the UN body's list of endangered habitats.
Greenpeace activists blocked natural gas operations near the wetland reserves on Spain's southern coast, home to more than 4,000 species including the endangered Iberian lynx.
The UK's decision to break away from the European Union does not seem to have deterred those feisty Brits from spending their hard-earned money, particularly when it comes to their holidays. A new study has indicated that so far this year, Brits have spent £178 billion (€209.86 billion) on getaways at home and abroad.
The study was carried out by train ticket retailer Trainline. The company analysed the habits of German, British, Italian, and French travellers. Of these four countries, the UK took the least holidays, whereas Italians took the most. The average Brit took 3.1 holidays this year, whereas the French took 3.3, Germans took 3.8, and those fun-loving, jet-setting Italians finished way out in front, with the average person racking up 5.4 holidays each.
Heavy rain is forecast for Saturday in the Algarve along with more thunder and lightning. This will continue throughout Sunday, easing off early on Monday morning.
The southeast wind will gust up to 75kmph along the coast from Saturday with bursts up to 90kmph on higher ground.
The future CEO of Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Paulo Macedo, will keep the vastly enhanced salary negotiated by outgoing António Domingues, despite the political pressure of the last few days on the Government to revert to the lower salary level of Domingues’ predecessor.
The government took this decision despite the need to negotiate a salary that would avoided further tension.
It is the highest increase in the last 30 years: the minimum wage in Spain will go from €665 to €707 next year.
The 8% increase will add €52 to Spanish pay packets for those on the State agreed minimum and has been agreed by the Socialist Pary and the People’s Party - the only criticism coming from Podemos which wanted to see an even higher increase.
The Regional Health Administration of the Algarve is formally to propose to the Health Minister that the Algarve's two main hospitals, merged into a single management unit in 2013, should be split up and again managed independently.
The Hospital Centre of the Algarve management body was set up to run the main Faro and Portimão hospitals but has been fraught with difficulties under the presidency of Dr Pedro Nunes whose three year tenure was scarred with conflict, labour disputes and ill will and he struggled to impose proposed change on an unwilling workforce.
The Algarve’s Food Bank volunteers aim to collect 150 tons of food donated from shoppers at 140 supermarkets across the Algarve this weekend, December 3rd and 4th.
The Food Bank has a depot in Portimão and Faro manned by volunteers from which the donated food is then distributed to 90 partner institutions for delivery to the region’s poorest citizens, most of them elderly and alone.
