Jerez Airport
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| Jerez Airport (Aeropuerto de Jerez) |
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| IATA: XRY - ICAO: LEJR | |||
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| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Aena | ||
| Serves | Jerez de la Frontera | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 93 ft (28 m) | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
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| 02/20 | 7,546 | 2,300 | Asphalt |
Jerez Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Jerez) (IATA: XRY, ICAO: LEJR) is an airport located 6.25 miles (10km) north of Jerez de la Frontera in Southern Spain, about 50 miles (80km) from Sevilla and 28.1 miles (45km) from Cadiz. It is a modern airport with the principal arrivals and departures areas on the ground floor.
Jerez Airport is conveniently located for access to Cadiz, Tarifa, Seville or even the Costa del Sol which is only a 90 minute drive away.
Most visitors at the airport arrive from Germany and the UK however around 36% of all passengers arrive at Jerez Airport are on domestic Spanish flights.
Ryanair introduced regular flights between Jerez Airport and London which helped increase passenger numbers at the airport to 1.1 million in 2004.
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[edit] Statistics
Passenger numbers (in thousands) and operations since 2000:
| Year | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | |
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| Passengers (thousands) | 692 | 802 | 771 | 846 | 1,117 | 1,297 | 1,382 | |
| Operations | 24,800 | 26,988 | 32,687 | 24,946 | 26,599 | 38,235 | 46,535 |
[edit] Ground Transportation
There are regular buses to and from the airport to Jerez, El Puerto de Santa Maria and Cádiz. Taxis to the center of Jerez cost around €15 and car hire rates are possible with companies such as Avis and Europcar at the airport. Exit from motorway A-4 is Jerez Nord.
[edit] Airlines and destinations
- Aerolineas de Baleares (Barcelona)
- airberlin (Berlin-Tegel, Faro, Hamburg, Münster, Paderborn-Lippstadt, Palma de Mallorca)
- Air Europa (Palma de Mallorca)
- Condor Airlines (Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart)
- Helvetic Airways (Zurich)
- Iberia (Madrid)
- Jetairfly (Brussels)
- Lagun Air (Leon, Salamanca, Valladolid)
- Luxair (Alicante, Luxembourg)
- Ryanair (Hahn, London-Stansted)
- Spanair (Barcelona, Bilbao, Gran Canaria, Madrid, Tenerife-South)
- Thomas Cook Airlines (Manchester)
- TUIfly (Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart)
- Vueling Airlines (Barcelona)
[edit] External links
- Jerez Airport (official site) (English)
- Airport information for LEJR at World Aero Data
- Jerez Airport (XRY/LEJR)
- Airport Bus timetable
