| Alicante Airport Aeropuerto de Alicante |
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| Control tower, Alicante Airport | |||
| IATA: ALC – ICAO: LEAL | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Aena | ||
| Serves | Alicante (province) | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 43 m / 141 ft | ||
| Coordinates | 38°16′56″N 000°33′29″W / 38.28222°N 0.55806°WCoordinates: 38°16′56″N 000°33′29″W / 38.28222°N 0.55806°W | ||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 10/28 | 3,000 | 9,842 | Asphalt |
| Statistics (2008) | |||
| Passengers | 9,578,308 | ||
| Passenger growth | +5.0% | ||
| Source: Passengers from AENA[1] Spanish AIP at EUROCONTROL[2] |
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Alicante Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de Alicante), (IATA: ALC, ICAO: LEAL), originally named El Altet, is the main airport for the province of Alicante and the region of Murcia in Spain. It is located within the municipality of Elche, its facilities lying just 10 km (6.2 mi) southwest[2] of Alicante. It is the busiest airport in the Valencian community.
El Altet opened on 4 May 1967, replacing the older aerodrome La Rabassa that had served Alicante since 1936. It took its name after the El Altet area (a part of Elche's countryside) where it was built. The first commercial flight that landed in the airport was Convair Metropolitan by Aviaco.[3] Iberia established a regular connections Alicante-Madrid and Alicante-Barcelona since November 1969. In early 1970s passengers' traffic reached 1 million, which prompted a construction of a new passenger terminal. In later 1970s the runway was extended to three kilometres.[3]
In 2007, Ryanair, the largest European low cost airline established a base at the airport.[4]
In 2008, the airport handled 9,578,308 passengers, making it the sixth busiest airport by passenger numbers in Spain,[1] and one of the 50 busiest in Europe. The largest number of passengers is carried by EasyJet (1,564,611 passengers in 2008), closely followed by Ryanair (1,415,284). Air Berlin (752.259) is the distant third.
There are two terminals at the airport, located one adjacent to the other. A new terminal is under construction and is due to be finished in 2009. A construction of an AVE high-speed railway terminal within the airport is under consideration.[5]
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Airlines and destinations
Terminal 1
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Aer Lingus | Belfast-International [begins 30 March;seasonal], Cork [seasonal], Dublin |
| Air Algérie | Oran |
| Air Berlin | Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Nuremberg [seasonal], Paderborn/Lippstadt [seasonal], Palma de Mallorca, Stuttgart [seasonal], Zürich [seasonal] |
| Air Europa | Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Tenerife-South |
| Air Finland | Helsinki |
| Bmibaby | Birmingham, Cardiff, East Midlands |
| Cimber Sterling | Copenhagen [begins 16 May] |
| City Airline | Gothenburg-Landvetter [begins 2 April] |
| Flybe | Exeter, Southampton |
| Iberia | Madrid |
| Iberia operated by Air Nostrum | Asturias, Bilbao, Ibiza, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Seville |
| Iceland Express | Reykjavik-Keflavik [begins 25 March] |
| Jet2.com | Blackpool, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester |
| Jetairfly | Brussels, Liège, Ostend |
| Monarch Airlines | Birmingham, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle | Bergen, Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Oslo-Rygge, Stavanger, Stockholm-Arlanda, Trondheim, Warsaw |
| Scandinavian Airlines System | Bergen, Kristiansand, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stavanger, Trondheim |
| Spanair | Barcelona, Madrid, Oran |
| Transaero Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo |
| transavia.com | Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Rotterdam |
| Thomas Cook Airlines | Belfast-International, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow-International, Leeds/Bradford, London-Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Thomson Airways | Belfast-International, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, Durham Tees Valley, East Midlands, Glasgow-International, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle |
| VIM Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo |
| Vueling Airlines | Barcelona, Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
Terminal 2
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| EasyJet | Basel/Mulhouse, Belfast-International, Bristol, East Midlands [ends 5 January], Edinburgh, Geneva, Glasgow-International, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Ryanair | Altenburg [begins 31 March], Basel/Mulhouse, Billund, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bratislava, Bremen, Bristol, Brussels South-Charleroi, Derry [seasonal], Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Fez, Friederichshafen, Gdańsk, Glasgow-Prestwick, Gothenburg-City, Hahn, Haugesund, Ireland West Knock [seasonal], Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Kerry [begins 3 March;seasonal], Krakow [begins 30 March], Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Maastricht/Aachen, Madrid, Marrakech, Memmingen, Milan-Orio al Serio, Oslo-Rygge, Oslo-Torp, Paris-Beauvais, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville [begins 31 March], Shannon [ends 25 March], Stockholm-Skavsta, Stockholm-Vasteras [begins 2 April], Valladolid [Begins 1 April], Vaxjö [begins 1 April] Venice-Treviso [begins 1 April], Weeze, Wroclaw, Zaragoza |
References
- ^ a b AENA passenger and aircraft movements for 2008
- ^ a b EAD Basic
- ^ a b Alicante Airport airports-worldwide.com
- ^ Ryanair announces 21st base in Alicante, Spain News Release, 09.08.07
- ^ Alicante international airport broadens its horizons TM Real Estate Group
External links
- Aena.es - Airport ALC - official page; interactive map, gallery and history
- New Terminal Render. Archive copy at the Internet Archive (Spanish)
- New terminal construction: De altos vuelos El Dominical. March 12, 2007. p. 1-4 (Spanish)
- Current weather for LEAL at NOAA/NWS
- Accident history for ALC at Aviation Safety Network
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