https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Fourteen people were lightly injured when a flight operated by Spanish charter airline Evelop from Mauritius to Madrid hit severe turbulence, the company said Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20190822/plane-plunged-from-the-sky-like-a-fairground-attraction Thu, 22 Aug 2019 11:11:51 +0200 plane-plunged-from-the-sky-like-a-fairground-attraction It may seem like something out of the Hollywood film The Terminal, but for around 40 homeless people, Madrid's Barajas Airport is the closest thing they have to a place to live. https://www.thelocal.es/20150102/homeless-residents-make-lives-in-spanish-airport Fri, 02 Jan 2015 11:14:00 +0100 homeless-residents-make-lives-in-spanish-airport A Nigerian drug smuggler at Madrid's international airport who started shivering after the cocaine bags he was carrying inside his body burst was left to die after airport authorities activated an emergency Ebola alert https://www.thelocal.es/20141024/drug-mule-left-dying-in-airport-due-to-ebola-alert Fri, 24 Oct 2014 12:15:00 +0200 drug-mule-left-dying-in-airport-due-to-ebola-alert Staff at Madrid's Adolfo Suárez Barajas airport have called a strike for the last weekend of August to protest the privatization of Spain's state-owned airport operator. https://www.thelocal.es/20140820/madrid-airport-staff-to-go-on-strike-late-august Wed, 20 Aug 2014 14:45:28 +0200 madrid-airport-staff-to-go-on-strike-late-august Madrid recently introduced a flat-rate fare of €30 ($40) for all taxi trips from the city's Barajas airport to the city centre in a bid to increase fare transparency. But some taxi drivers are still finding ways to prey on newly-arrived tourists. https://www.thelocal.es/20140113/madrid-taxi-scam Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:11:00 +0100 madrid-taxi-scam Madrid's Barajas airport was among the ten most punctual in the world in November with only Munich performing better in Europe. https://www.thelocal.es/20131216/madrid-airport-makes-world-punctuality-top-10 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:59:00 +0100 madrid-airport-makes-world-punctuality-top-10 Passengers on board a Delta Airlines plane at Madrid's Barajas airport were given a fright on Thursday morning after technical problems forced the aircraft's pilots to carry out an emergency landing minutes after take-off. https://www.thelocal.es/20131205/nyc-flight-forced-to-land-in-madrid Thu, 05 Dec 2013 15:33:00 +0100 nyc-flight-forced-to-land-in-madrid Tourists who take Madrid's bus 114 to the 'airport' often come in for a nasty surprise at the end of their journey. https://www.thelocal.es/20131203/spains-airport-bus-to-nowhere Tue, 03 Dec 2013 15:43:00 +0100 spains-airport-bus-to-nowhere Madrid authorities have given the green light to the creation of a new state school named after the recently-deceased former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. https://www.thelocal.es/20130621/class-war-erupts-over-margaret-thatcher-school Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:23:00 +0200 class-war-erupts-over-margaret-thatcher-school Two young men have caused €30,000 worth of damage to an airplane parked at Barajas airport in Madrid in what they told police was just as a bit of “weekend mischief”. https://www.thelocal.es/20130430/teen-gatecrashers-trash-plane-at-madrid-airport Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:34:58 +0200 teen-gatecrashers-trash-plane-at-madrid-airport Spanish police at Madrid's Barajas airport seized just over 55 kilos (121 pounds) of cocaine impregnated in clothes in the luggage of three passengers who arrived on a flight from Peru on Monday. https://www.thelocal.es/20130321/cops-nab-dealers-with-cocaine-clothes Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:25:00 +0100 cops-nab-dealers-with-cocaine-clothes