Alicante Airport
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| Alicante Airport Aeropuerto de Alicante |
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| IATA: ALC – ICAO: LEAL | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Aena | ||
| Serves | Alicante (province) | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 142 ft / 43 m | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 10/28 | 9,842 | 3,000 | Asphalt |
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| Passengers | 9,120,819 | ||
| Passenger growth 06-07 | +2.6% | ||
Alicante International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de Alicante), (IATA: ALC, ICAO: LEAL), originally named El Altet, is the main airport for the regions of Alicante and Murcia in Spain. It is located within the municipality of Elx (Elche), just 9 km southwest of Alicante.
El Altet opened on 1967-05-04, replacing the older airdrome La Rabassa that had served Alicante since 1936. The airport took its name from a part of the city called Elx.
In 2007, the airport carried 9,120,819 passengers, making it the sixth busiest airport by passenger numbers in Spain, and one the 50 busiest of Europe.[1]
In 2007 the low cost airline Ryanair established a base at the airport.
A new Terminal is under construction and is due to be finished in 2009.
[edit] Airlines and destinations
- Aer Lingus (Cork, Dublin)
- Air Algérie (Oran)
- airberlin (Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Malaga, Munich, Münster/Osnabrück, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Palma de Mallorca, Stuttgart)
- Air Europa (Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Tenerife-South)
- Air Finland (Helsinki)
- Avianca (Barcelona, Bogota)
- bmibaby (Birmingham, Cardiff, East Midlands, Manchester)
- British Airways (London-Gatwick)
- Bulgaria Air (Sofia)
- Clickair (Barcelona)
- easyJet (Basel/Mulhouse, Belfast-International, Bristol, Dortmund, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Geneva, Glasgow-International, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Manchester [begins 29 September], Newcastle)
- First Choice Airways (Bristol, London-Gatwick, Manchester)
- Flybe (Exeter, Southampton)
- Flyglobespan (Aberdeen, Durham Tees Valley, Edinburgh, Glasgow-International)
- Iberia (Madrid)
- operated by Air Nostrum (Asturias, Bilbao, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Santander, Seville, Tenerife-North)
- Iceland Express (Reykjavík)
- Jet2.com (Blackpool, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester)
- Jetairfly (Brussels, Liège, Ostend)
- LagunAir (León)
- Monarch Airlines (Birmingham, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester)
- Norwegian Air Shuttle (Bergen, Oslo, Stavanger, Trondheim, Warsaw)
- Palmair (Bournemouth)
- Ryanair (Basel/Mulhouse, Billund, Bournemouth, Bremen, Brussels-Charleroi, Doncaster/Sheffield, Dublin, Durham Tees Valley, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Gothenburg-City, Karlsruhe-Baden, Liverpool, London-Stansted, Maastricht/Aachen, Milan-Orio Al Serio, Newquay, Paris-Beauvais, Pisa, Shannon, Stockholm-Skavsta, Weeze, Zaragoza)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Bergen, Kristiansand, Oslo, Stavanger, Trondheim)
- Spanair (Barcelona, Gran Canaria, Madrid, Tenerife-South)
- Sterling Airlines (Copenhagen, Malmö, Oslo, Stockholm-Arlanda)
- Thomas Cook Airlines (Belfast-International, Birmingham, East Midlands, Glasgow-International, Leeds/Bradford, London-Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle)
- Thomas Cook Airlines (Belgium) (Brussels, Liège, Ostend)
- Thomsonfly (Birmingham, Cardiff, Coventry, Doncaster/Sheffield, Durham Tees Valley, East Midlands, Glasgow-International, London-Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle)
- transavia.com (Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Enschede, Groningen, Maastricht/Aachen, Rotterdam)
- Vueling (Ibiza [seasonal June 13 - September 15], Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- XL Airways (Cardiff, Glasgow-International, London-Gatwick, Manchester)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Aena.es - Airport ALC - official page, including gallery and history
- New Terminal Render
