Budget Airlines Has Made Travelling To Spain An Inexpensive Affair

Spain has miles of Mediterranean coastline, thus providing ample opportunity for a deserving break. Spain’s colourful festivals and vibrant cities are worth a trip. Madrid’s museums and galleries display a variety of Spain’s Gaudi, Dali, and Picasso of Goya and Velazquez.

Be it the unique architectural style of Barcelona’s Gaudi or the single most experience of running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain promises to leave you spell bound! To get the local taste, visit Buñol’s La Tomatina festival held each year where surplus tomatoes that are scattered on the streets and thrown on each other. This is then followed by annual harvest.

No wonder, UNESCO has declared six of its cities as world heritage sites. Salamanca, Seville, Toledo and Granada are some of its cities that promise a wealth of early Christian and Moorish buildings and monuments. These places also have the ruins of medieval sites.

With budget airlines and affordable fares, travelling to Spain has become an inexpensive affair. It has turned Spain into a beehive of tourists – thanks to its sandy beaches and good exchange rate.

In recent years, Canary and Balearic Islands are attracting many tourists, so is Lanzarote, Tenerife and Majorca which has become well known for its cheap holiday packages. On the other hand, Ibiza’s reputation to some extent has been tarnished for its dance clubs and beach parties, still you’ll find many magical, unspoilt corners awaiting discovery.

Seeing the growing popularity of Spain as a holiday destination amongst UK holidaymakers, airlines have increased its flights to Spain. Though Spain has a wonderful domestic flights network, it isn’t easy to find a cheap deal. Iberia, Spanair and Air Europa are the three main flight operators in Spain.

British Airways has flight services from Heathrow and Gatwick to several Spanish cities. Easy Jet is the only European flight provider having the most frequent services to Spain. Even Ryanair are planning to increase their flight services to Spain. Presently they have flight services from London Stansted to Girona, Jerez and Murica and from Dublin to Malaga and Girona.

Unlike Easy Jet, Thomson Flights operate from almost 20 local airports from UK to various places in Spain. If you’re looking for great deals for flights from London Heathrow and Manchester to Madrid and Palma then go for British Midland. They also have budget flights from East Midlands to Barcelona.

The Spanish airline, Iberia has flights to 33 destinations in Spain from London Heathrow, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dublin, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Manchester. It also runs flights services to the Canary Islands and the Balearics.