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Amazon might open new logistics centre in Greater Barcelona
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Catalonia approves 3 green taxes expected to raise €50 million per year
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First Airbus A380 serving a regular route between Barcelona and Dubai
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Record 35.2 million passengers at Barcelona El Prat Airport in 2013
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Record attendance for the 2014 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
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23% more intercontinental passengers at Barcelona El Prat Airport
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Vueling adds 14 new routes from Barcelona El Prat Airport
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Barcelona El Prat Airport hosts the world’s third largest offer of low-cost airline seats
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IAG CEO: Vueling would still be based in Barcelona even if an independent Catalonia was not in the EU
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Barcelona-El Prat Airport has for the first time more passengers than Madrid-Barajas
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IAG will buy 120 new aircraft for the Barcelona-based airline Vueling
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Barcelona-El Prat and Madrid-Barajas airports both received 3.8 million passengers during last July
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Barcelona's VIP Airport lounge users are able to taste Priorat DO wine for free
The ‘Pau Casals VIP lounge’ at Barcelona's Airport Terminal 1 offers the opportunity to taste between three or six Priorat (Tarragona) DO wines. Every Thursday afternoon in May, June and July, VIP travellers who leave or stop over in Barcelona are able to do this tasting for free. In 30 minute sessions, they can taste three different kinds of wine from the wineries ‘Clos Mogador’, ‘Capafons-Ossó’, ‘Mas d’en Gil’, ‘Scala Dei’, ‘Mas Doix’ and ‘Trossos del Priorat’.
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British Airways-Iberia to own 90% of Vueling after many shareholders decided to accept the takeover offer
IAG, the company resulting from the merger of British Airways and Iberia, improved its initial offer from €7 per share to €9.25 to buy 100% of the Catalan airline’s shares. Iberia already owned 45.85% of Vueling and the IAG offer aimed to buy the remaining 54.15%. However, IAG had already stated the operation would still be carried out if it could buy 4.16% of Vueling’s share, in order to own 50.01% of the airline. Finally, more than four fifths of the remaining shareholders decided to sell their stocks to IAG. The international airline will buy 44.66% of Vueling’s shares and then it will own 90.51% of the company based in Barcelona El Prat Airport. Vueling is one of the few European airlines that has made a profit in the last few years. It has a competitive business model, flying to more than 200 destinations.