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Alicante Airport

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Alicante Airport
Aeropuerto de Alicante

IATA: ALC – ICAO: LEAL
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Aena
Serves Alicante (province)
Elevation AMSL 142 ft / 43 m
Coordinates 38°17′01″N 00°33′31″W / 38.28361, -0.55861
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
10/28 9,842 3,000 Asphalt

Alicante International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de Alicante), (IATA: ALCICAO: 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 2005, the airport carried 8,796,321 passengers. making it the sixth busiest airport by passenger numbers. 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.

Airlines and destinations

  • Aer Lingus (Cork, Dublin)
  • Air Algérie (Oran)
  • Air Berlin (Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Malaga, Münster, Paderborn, Palma de Mallorca, Stuttgart)
  • Air Europa (Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Tenerife-South)
  • Air Finland (Helsinki)
  • Avianca (Bogotá)
  • bmi (London-Heathrow)
    • bmibaby (Birmingham, Cardiff, East Midlands, Manchester)
  • British Airways (London-Gatwick) [begins March 30]
    • operated by GB Airways (London-Gatwick) [ends March 29]
  • Bulgaria Air (Sofia)
  • Clickair (Barcelona) [starts February 24]
  • easyJet (Basel/Mulhouse, Belfast-International, Bristol, Dortmund, Edinburgh, Geneva, Glasgow-International, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Newcastle, Nottingham-East Midlands)
  • Flybe (Exeter, Norwich, Southampton)
  • Flyglobespan (Aberdeen, Durham Tees Valley, Edinburgh, Glasgow-International)
  • Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn)
  • Helvetic Airways (Zurich)
  • Iberia (Barcelona [ends February 23], Madrid)
    • operated by Air Nostrum (Asturias, Bilbao, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Lisbon, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Tenerife-North)
  • Iceland Express (Reykjavík-Keflavík)
  • Jet2.com (Blackpool, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester)
  • Jetairfly (Brussels, ostend, Liège)
  • LagunAir (León)
  • Monarch Airlines (Birmingham, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester)
  • MyTravel Airways (Belfast-International, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, London-Gatwick, Manchester, East Midlands)
  • Norwegian Air Shuttle (Bergen, Oslo, Stavanger, Trondheim, Warsaw)
  • Palmair (Bournemouth)
  • Ryanair (Basel/Mulhouse, Billund, Bournemouth, Brussels, Doncaster-Sheffield, Dublin, Durham Tees Valley [begins March 4], Dusseldorf, East Midlands, Edinburgh [begins March 5], Gothenburg City, Karlsruhe-Baden, Liverpool, London-Stansted, Maastricht/Aachen, Milan-Orio Al Serio, Newquay [begins March 4], Paris-Beauvais, Pisa, Stockholm-Skavsta)
  • Scandinavian Airlines System (Bergen,Trondheim, Kristiansand, Oslo, Stavanger)
  • Spanair (Barcelona, Gran Canaria, Madrid, Tenerife-South)
  • Sterling Airlines (Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm-Arlanda)
  • Thomas Cook Airlines (Belgium) (Brussels, Ostend, Liège)
  • Thomsonfly (Birmingham, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Coventry, Doncaster-Sheffield, Manchester, Newcastle)
  • transavia.com (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Eindhoven, Groningen, Enschede, Maastricht/Aachen)
  • Vueling (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
  • XL Airways (Glasgow-International, Cardiff, London-Gatwick, Manchester)

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