Burgos Airport

Burgos Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Burgos) (ICAO: LEBG), also known as Villafría, is an airport located 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) west of the central business district of Burgos, a city in Spain.

Ground transportation

Public transport

There is an urban bus that provides airport service to and from the center of Burgos. The route begins in Plaza de España and stops in the following streets: Belorado, Segovia, Avenida de Castilla y León, San Roque, Glorieta de Logroño, San Bruno, Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Real y Antigua, Vitoria 252, Alcalde Martín Cobos and from here to the airport terminal. The route from the airport to the center will be on a reverse route with stops in the next points: Martín Cobos, Vitoria 259, Real y Antigua, Vitoria 163, San Bruno, Antigua Academia de Ingenieros, San Roque, Avenida de Castilla y León, Avenida de la Paz 51, Antonio Machado and Plaza de España.

The route schedules depends on the time of the flight; the bus will depart from Plaza España to the airport an hour and half before a flight and from the airport to the center half hour after the arrival of a flight.

Car and taxi

Burgos Airport is located to the north east of the province capital city, on a broad plain between the neighbourhoods of Gamonal and Villafría de Burgos, where the N-120 road and A-1 highway (also called ring road BU-30) meet in a great roundabout. From here to the airport building, there is a 650 metres (0.40 mi) long road that ends opposite the terminal building. It takes a 10 minutes ride by car or taxi to get the city centre. A taxi ride cost approximately € 10 or slightly more.

There is a parking garage with a capacity of 188 cars, some semi-underground, for passengers coming with their own car.

Bilbao Airport

Bilbao Airport (IATA: BIO, ICAO: LEBB) is a public airport located 9 km (5.6 mi) north of Bilbao, in the municipality of Loiu, in the Basque Country. It is the most important airport of the Basque Country and northern Spain, with 4,172,903 passengers on 2008 (declined by 2.7% compared to 2007). It is famous for its new main terminal opened in 2000 and designed by Santiago Calatrava.

The airport has seen a constant increase in its traffic numbers, the old terminal was already saturated and obsolete in 1990, although it had been renewed only a few years earlier. At the present day Bilbao is the most important hub in northern Spain and the number of passengers using the new terminal continues to rise, especially after the increased tourist interest in the city since the opening of the Guggenheim museum.

With the past increase of traffic, the terminal would have become saturated again in a year because it is designed to handle about 4.5 million passengers per year, in 2007 it went nearly to its maximum capacity. However, the global financial crisis of 2008 has reversed the situation as of early 2009, decreasing the number of passengers by 24% in January compared to previous year.

Barcelona Airport

Barcelona Airport (IATA: BCN, ICAO: LEBL), commonly known as El Prat Airport, is located 12 km (7.5 mi) southwest from Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, lying in the municipalities of El Prat de Llobregat, Viladecans and Sant Boi.

The airport is the second largest in Spain behind Madrid Barajas Airport and the largest in Catalonia. It is a main hub for Spanair and Vueling and a focus city for Air Europa and Iberia. The airport mainly serves domestic, European and North African destinations, also having flights to Southeast Asia, Latin America and North America.

The Barcelona–Madrid air shuttle service, known as the "Puente Aéreo" (in Spanish), or "Pont Aeri" (in Catalan) literally "Air Bridge", was the world's busiest route until 2008, with the highest number of flight operations (971 per week) in 2007. The schedule has been reduced since February 2008, when a Madrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line was opened, covering the distance in 2 hours 40 minutes, and quickly became popular.

In 2010, over 29.2 million passengers used Barcelona Airport, a 6.5% increase compared with 2009, making it the 10th busiest airport in Europe.

El Prat today

Most of the traffic at Barcelona Airport is domestic and European, in which Spanair and Vueling have an operational base. However, the number of intercontinental connections is well below other European airports with their level of passenger traffic. The lack of intercontinental connections has been a constant cause of complaint and pressure by the authorities and Catalan groups in recent years, who want the airport to become a centre of world air traffic distribution and not just European.

In recent years the traffic of low-cost airlines has grown significantly, especially after the creation of operating bases by Vueling and Clickair at the airport. Vueling and Clickair merged in July 2009, now they operate under the name of Vueling. There are other low-cost airlines operating from the airport including easyJet, WizzAir, and Ryanair who have established a new base at the airport starting September 2010.

The airport has 3 runways, two parallel, nominated 07L/25R and 07R/25L (the latter opened in 2004), and a cross runway 02/20. There are two terminals: T2, which is the sum of the previous Terminal A, B and C and the new T1 opened on 16/6/2009. The two terminals have a combined total of 268 check-in counters and 64 boarding gates. Operations at the airport are restricted exclusively to IFR (instrumental flights), except for sanitary VFR flights, emergency and government.

A plan for expansion (Plan Barcelona) includes a third terminal building (also designed by Ricardo Bofill) and control tower. An additional runway (07R/25L) has also been built. Once these developments are complete in 2009, the airport will be capable of handling 55 million passengers annually (compared to 33 million passengers in 2007). The airport is slated to expand in area from 8.45 to 15.33 square kilometres (3.26 to 5.92 sq mi) by 2009. A further expansion is planned to be finished by 2012, with a new satellite terminal which will raise the capacity to 70 million passengers annually.

Badajoz Airport

Badajoz Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Badajoz) (IATA: BJZ, ICAO: LEBZ) is an airport located 13 km (8.1 mi) east of Badajoz, a city in Extremadura, Spain.

The airport shares its runway and control tower with the Talavera la Real Air Base (Spanish: Base Aérea de Talavera la Real), an air base of the Spanish Air Force, named for the nearby municipality of Talavera la Real.

Airlines and destinations

Iberia operated by Air Nostrum Barcelona, Gran Canaria [begins 27 July], Ibiza [begins 23 July], Madrid, Palma de Mallorca [begins 2 July], Paris-Orly [restarts 3 July], Rome-Fiumicino [begins 3 August], Tenerife-North [begins 27 July], Valencia

Asturias Airport

Asturias Airport, (IATA: OVD, ICAO: LEAS) is the main airport of Asturias, Spain, in Castrillón.

Asturias airport is located in Santiago del Monte, municipality of Castrillon, 15 km from Avilés, 40 km from Gijón and 47 km from Oviedo.

Traffic consists primarily of scheduled domestic flights to and from Madrid-Barajas, Barcelona, Tenerife Sur and Palma de Mallorca. Most international flights are to and from the United Kingdom, France and Belgium, as there are regular connecting flights to London-Stansted, Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Brussels.

In 2007, the airport reached 1,560,830 passengers, managed 19,149 operations and moved 196 tonnes of freight.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
Air Berlin Palma de Mallorca
Air Europa Lanzarote, Madrid, Tenerife-South
Air France operated by Régional Paris-Charles de Gaulle
EasyJet Geneva, London-Stansted
Iberia Airlines Madrid
Iberia operated by Air Nostrum Alicante, Barcelona, Brussels, Lisbon, Málaga, Seville, Valencia
Spanair Barcelona, Madrid
Vueling Barcelona

Almería Airport

Almería Airport (IATA: LEI, ICAO: LEAM) is located 9 km (5.6 mi) east of the city centre in South-East Spain, in the province of Almería. It is a modern airport, with arrivals and departures taking place on the main ground floor. It also has a terrace overlooking the runway.

Regular national and international flights arrive and depart at the airport. The domestic flag-carrier Iberia Airlines serves the airport while EasyJet flies from and to the UK. Numerous charter companies fly to and from the airport, making it the second most important airport in terms of foreign tourism in Andalucia.

Local bus line 20 links the airport with the city centre. Taxis and car rental companies are available, too.

There is signed access to the airport from the A7 "Motorway of the Mediterranean", through the AL-17 dual carriageway. The A7 links to many cities along the coast of Spain.

Air Berlin Palma de Mallorca
Bmibaby Seasonal: East Midlands
EasyJet London-Gatwick and London-Stansted
Iberia operated by Air Nostrum Barcelona, Madrid, Melilla, Seville
Iberworld Barcelona, Bilbao, Oviedo, Santiago de Compostela, Valladolid
Jetairfly Brussels
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg
Monarch Birmingham, Manchester
Ryanair Brussels South-Charleroi [begins 4 May], London-Stansted, Madrid, Weeze
Thomas Cook Airlines Seasonal: London Gatwick, Manchester
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium Brussels
Transavia.com Seasonal: Amsterdam

Alicante Airport

Alicante Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Alicante, Valencian: Aeroport d'Alacant), (IATA: ALC, ICAO: LEAL), originally named El Altet, is the sixth busiest airport in Spain, and the main airport for the Province of Alicante and the Region of Murcia. The airport is situated 9 km (5.6 mi) southwest of Alicante and 10 km (6.2 mi) east of Elche in the municipality of Elche on Mediterranean coast. Up to eighty percent of all passenger flights are international. The largest numbers of passengers arrive from the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands. Popular domestic destinations are Madrid, Palma de Mallorca and Barcelona. Both, international and domestic passenger traffic has been increasing significantly in the last decade.

In 2010, Alicante Airport handled 9,382,935 passengers, 74,474 flight operations and 3,113 tonnes of cargo, making it the sixth busiest airport by passenger numbers in Spain, and one of the 50 busiest in Europe. Furthermore, it is the busiest airport in the Valencian Community. The airport is the fourth largest base for low-cost giant Ryanair with 59 destinations served by the airline. The largest number of passengers is carried by Ryanair (3,152,724 passengers in 2010), followed by EasyJet (1,337,350). Air Berlin (620,671) is the distant third.

In March 2011, the New Terminal Area of the airport was opened. All flights arrive and depart from this new terminal. Terminals 1 and 2, which were in service before the opening of the new terminal are now closed.

The New Terminal Area is the only terminal currently in service. Terminals 1 and 2 have been closed since the opening of the new terminal, and their future is unknown.

New Terminal

The new terminal (denoted as Terminal N) was officially opened on 23 March 2011. All flight operations at the airport were moved to this terminal on the following day. The first flight that used the terminal was a Ryanair flight to Memingen.

The terminal has an area of 333,500m², which is more than six times the size of terminals 1 and 2 together. It includes 96 check-in desks, 40 gates, including 15 with airbridges, and 16 baggage reclaim carousels.

The terminal is split into two areas, the processor where the C Gates are held, and the dock where the majority of B Gates are located. Flights withing the Schengen Area use both areas of the terminal while flights to non-Schengen destinations only use the dock. This terminal was constructed to the east of Terminal 1.