There were lots of complains about the A310 price, but due to the plane crash in Turkey, the issue seems to be quite off at the moment. And about the Delta plane have been purchased by Swiftair (with a ATR72) to expatriate illegal inmigrants to their countries by the Ministry of Interior

I can send you some tomorrow, with my digital camara. OK?

New airport in Logroño, new operator, using Saab340
http://www.iberline.es
And about the A310, well. The junk B707 needed to be changed, so I find the A310 a nice replacement, not an Airforce one, but enough for a small power like Spain. The main argument here, in Spain as you know….renting IB planes for VIPS like Tony with BA, or having an own A310, which some people find them faraonic. First, Spain ecconomy can afford having a plane like that for the Royal Air Force, and secondly it could be used in many other tasks (minimizing costs) like troops transport, freight delivery in humanitarian tasks, and even renting for cargo flights. A good decission.:)

Here you are the web of the airline involved
http://www.umair-ua.com

I suppose many people think that being a militar is a risk and having crashes in part of their risk, while civilians implies women, children….I don´t know, why some people think that. But life is life and specially when talking about a peace keeping force which risk their lives to bring hope to poor communities, either defusing mines, bringing food or medical supplies, or giving them their very best in moments of griefs like in Afganistan. Thanks for your support.

Looks great. The main problem with regional aircraft is racks…usually over the passengers heads, which seem to be falling on them. But this time, the dimensions look OK. I find carrying baggage to the cabin, a bad habbit. I do hate people taking those trolleys, and setting them over my head. Airlines should definitely forbid them. In case of sudden turbulence, hard landing this things could be very dangerous of falling down. I myself almost had a severe head injury in a rough landing due to one of this trolleys. Besides, in case of evacutation, people tend to get them and bock exits and aisles. Airlines are just walking on the knife edge, only for not annoying irresponsible passengers. One day, people will die because others will want to take their bellongings out in a crash.

Initially Hubs are prefered by airlines since costs are reduced and point to point flights (prefered by passengers) implies extra crews, extra costs….But both systems are complentary since each airport varies and sometimes a mixed concept is useful.