| 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 |
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 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)
External links
- Aena.es - Airport ALC - official page, including gallery and history
- New Terminal Render
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