| Málaga Airport Aeropuerto de Málaga |
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| IATA: AGP – ICAO: LEMG | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Aena | ||
| Serves | Costa del Sol | ||
| Location | Málaga, Spain | ||
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| Elevation AMSL | 16 m / 52 ft | ||
| Coordinates | 36°40′30″N 004°29′57″W / 36.675°N 4.49917°WCoordinates: 36°40′30″N 004°29′57″W / 36.675°N 4.49917°W | ||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 13/31 | 3,200 | 10,500 | Asphalt |
| Statistics (2008) | |||
| Passengers | 12,813,764 | ||
| Pass. growth 07-08 | -5.7% | ||
| Source: Spanish AIP at EUROCONTROL[1] | |||
Málaga Airport (IATA: AGP, ICAO: LEMG), also known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso Airport,[2] is the main airport for the Costa del Sol of Spain. It is 8 km (5.0 mi) southwest[1] of Málaga and 5 km (3.1 mi) north of Torremolinos. The airport has flight connections to over 60 countries worldwide, and 12,813,764 [3] passengers passed through it in 2008. The airport currently operates with two terminals. A third terminal adjacent to the previous two is currently under construction and is scheduled to open in 2009. A second runway is expected to open by 2010.
Málaga Airport is the international airport of Andalusia accounting for 85 percent of its international traffic and is the only one who can offer a wide variety of international destinations.
The airport, connected to the Costa del Sol, has a daily link with twenty cities in Spain and over a hundred cities in Europe (mainly in United Kingdom, Central Europe and the Nordic countries but also the main cities of Eastern Europe: Moscow, Saint Petersburg , Budapest, Sofia, Warsaw, Riga and Bucharest), North Africa, Middle East (Riyadh, Jeddah and Kuwait) and North America (New York, Toronto and Montreal).
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Traffic
Passenger numbers have increased consistently from levels of around 6 million in 1995 to 12.8 million passengers[3] in 2008.
The busiest routes are those within the EU, particularly to and from the United Kingdom and Ireland.
The airport is also used by many people visiting Gibraltar, since more airlines cover this airport than Gibraltar Airport
Access
Malaga airport is well-served by public transport, with Cercanías Málaga train directly serving the airport from Malaga city centre and Fuengirola, an airport coach linking to Marbella bus station. The number 19 bus run by EMTSAM runs a service to Malaga Bus Station and the City Centre and costs €1,10. The bus runs from 6am - 12 midnight and departs from the arrivals section in both terminals 1 and 2.
Malaga airport is currently upgrading its infrastructure with the inauguration of the 2nd runway and an underground station for the suburban trains, connecting it with Málaga and providing this way better communications with the city center[4]
History and development
The first scheduled air service from Malaga began in 1919, when Didier Daurat began regular flights between Toulouse, Barcelona, Alicante, Málaga Tangiers and Casablanca.
In 1937, training academies for the Air Force were set up in Malaga airport, and in 1946 the airport was opened to international civil passenger flights, and was classified as a customs post.
The one runway was extended in the 1960s, and a new terminal was erected in the centre of the site. During this period of development new navigational equipment was installed, including radar system at the end of the decade, in 1970.
Having been known by various names throughout its history, Malaga Airport was officially given its current title in 1965. Three years later, in 1968, the new passenger terminal was opened. In 1972 a second passenger terminal was opened to cater specifically for non-scheduled traffic. An increase in companies offering package holidays (around 30 by 1965) meant that this type of traffic was providing an increasing portion of the airport's business.
In 1991, the brand new Pablo Ruiz Picasso terminal was opened. This building was designed by architect Ricardo Bofill, and was built to be operated in combination with the pre-existing passenger terminal. The new terminal, known also as Terminal 2, hosts a large check-in/entrance hall with a Burger King on the southern side and a long row of check-in desks running left to right across the concourse. Once passengers check in they go beyond the check-in desks themselves to access the security areas instead of having to "back-track" on themselves, meaning that the check-in concourse is less crowded, particularly important if people have luggage trolleys. Once beyond the security check-point passengers can use the airport's facilities. These include:
- Duty-free/Tax-free shopping which is located on a mezzanine floor and accessed by a series of escalators.
- Restaurant/Buffet style diner also located on the upper level.
Once each flight has been allocated a departure gate, passengers are told to proceed to a pier, either B to the left or C to the right. As a general rule domestic departures, in particular Iberia, Spanair flights depart from pier B along with mainland European flights. Pier C hosts flights departing to the UK and Ireland although some UK carriers such as EasyJet flights to Liverpool occasionally depart from pier B.
Further development was done on the airport in the mid-90s, with the old passenger building being converted into a general aviation terminal, and a new hangar for large aircraft maintenance being built to the north of the airport site. Also constructed in this period was a terminal specifically catering to cargo traffic.
Accidents and incidents
- September 13, 1982 – Spantax Flight 995 a DC-10-30CF EC-DEG was destroyed by fire after an aborted take-off.
Airlines and destinations
Terminal 1
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Blue Air | Bucharest-Băneasa |
| Delta Air Lines | New York-JFK [seasonal] |
| Flybe | Exeter, Southampton |
| Jet2.com | Blackpool [seasonal], Leeds/Bradford, Manchester [seasonal], Newcastle upon Tyne [seasonal] |
| Kuwait Airways | Kuwait [seasonal] |
| TAP Portugal operated by Portugália | Lisbon |
Terminal 2
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Aer Lingus | Belfast-International, Cork, Dublin, London-Gatwick |
| Aeroflot | Moscow-Sheremetyevo |
| Air Baltic | Riga, Vilnius |
| Air Berlin | Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt [ends 27 March], Hamburg, Hanover, Münster/Osnabrück [seasonal], Munich, Nuremberg [seasonal], Palma de Mallorca, Stuttgart, Zürich [begins 26 March, seasonal] |
| Air Europa | Dublin, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
| Air Finland | Helsinki |
| Air Transat | Montréal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson [both seasonal] |
| Ándalus Líneas Aéreas | Marrakech, Nador, Tangier |
| Arkefly | Amsterdam |
| Austrian Airlines | Vienna [seasonal] |
| Bmibaby | Birmingham, Cardiff, East Midlands |
| British Airways | London-Heathrow |
| Brussels Airlines | Brussels |
| Bulgaria Air | Sofia |
| Cimber Sterling | Aalborg, Billund, Copenhagen |
| City Airline | Gothenburg-Landvetter [begins 29 March] |
| Condor Airlines | Frankfurt, Munich |
| EasyJet | Basel/Mulhouse, Belfast-International, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bristol, East Midlands [ends 5 January], Geneva, Glasgow-International, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Germanwings | Stuttgart |
| Iberia | Madrid |
| Iberia operated by Air Nostrum | Asturias, Casablanca, Ibiza, Melilla, Santander, Valencia |
| Iberworld | Cork, Shannon |
| Jetairfly | Brussels, Liége |
| Lufthansa | Frankfurt, Munich |
| Luxair | Luxembourg |
| Malév Hungarian Airlines | Budapest |
| Monarch Airlines | Birmingham, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester |
| Niki | Vienna [seasonal] |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle | Aalborg, Bergen, Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Rygge, Stavanger, Stockholm-Arlanda, Trondheim, Warsaw |
| Primera Air | Dublin |
| Ryanair | Aarhus [begins 23 June], Berlin-Schönefeld [begins 25 June], Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bratislava [begins 23 June], Bremen, Bristol, Brussels South-Charleroi, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Eindhoven [begins 22 June], Girona, Glasgow-Prestwick, Gothenburg [begins 25 June], Hahn, Krakow [begins 24 June], Leeds/Bradford [begins 25 March], Liverpool, London-Stansted, Maastricht [begins 22 June], Marseille, Memmingen [begins 24 June]), Oslo-Torp [begins 23 June], Paris-Beauvais [begins 23 June], Pisa [begins 24 June], Santander [begins 24 June], Santiago [begins 23 June], Shannon, Stockholm-Skavsta [begins 24 June], Tampere [begins 25 June], Valladolid [begins 23 June], Venice-Treviso [begins 24 June], Weeze, Wroclaw [begins 25 June], Zaragoza [begins 24 June] |
| Saudi Arabian Airlines | Riyadh, Jeddah [seasonal] |
| Spanair | Barcelona, Bilbao, Copenhagen, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Madrid, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tenerife-South |
| Swiss International Air Lines | Zürich |
| Swiss operated by Swiss European Air Lines | Geneva |
| Thomas Cook Airlines | Birmingham, Glasgow-International, Leeds/Bradford, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne [seasonal] |
| Thomas Cook Airlines (Belgium) | Brussels |
| Thomson Airways | Belfast-International, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, Dublin, East Midlands, Glasgow-International, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne |
| transavia.com | Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Eindhoven, Groningen, Rotterdam |
| TUIfly | Cologne/Bonn [seasonal], Stuttgart |
| Vueling Airlines | Barcelona, Bilbao, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumicino, Santiago de Compostela |
References
- ^ a b EAD Basic
- ^ "Sales Offices in Spain." Spanair. Retrieved on 6 May 2009.
- ^ a b AENA passenger and aircraft movements in 2008
- ^ Malaga airport
External links
- Malaga Airport official website
- Current weather for LEMG at NOAA/NWS
- Accident history for AGP at Aviation Safety Network
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