Huesca-Pirineos Airport

Huesca-Pirineos Airport Aeropuerto de Huesca-Pirineos) (ICAO: LEHC), also known as Huesca Airport, is the airport serving the province of Huesca in Spain. The airport is located 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) southeast of the city of Huesca, near the villages of Monflorite-Lascasas and Alcalá del Obispo. Most of the traffic at the airport is domestic, to and from cities including La Coruña, Madrid, and Valencia.

Monarch Airlines Seasonal: London-Gatwick

Pyrenair operated by Air Nostrum Sea

Federico García Lorca Airport

Federico García Lorca Granada-Jaén Airport (IATA: GRX, ICAO: LEGR), also known as Granada Airport, is the airport serving the province and city of Granada, in Spain. although it has Jaén in its name. The airport is located near to Chauchina and Santa Fe, about 9.4 miles (15 km) west of Granada and 62.5 miles (100 km) south of Jaén. On June 13, 2006 it was officially named after the poet Federico García Lorca from Granada. Most traffic is domestic Spanish flights, although there are international routes to Bologna, and Milan.

Air Europa Palma de Mallorca
Blu-express Rome-Fiumicino [begins 22 April]
Iberia Madrid
Iberia operated by Air Nostrum Madrid, Melilla
Spanair Barcelona
Vueling Airlines Barcelona, Paris-Orly

Girona-Costa Brava Airport

Girona-Costa Brava Airport (IATA: GRO, ICAO: LEGE) is an airport located 12.5 km (7.8 mi) southwest of the city of Girona, next to the small village of Vilobí d'Onyar, in the north-east of Catalonia, Spain. It is well connected to the Costa Brava, Barcelona and the Pyrenees.

The airport was built in 1965, but passenger traffic was modest. The early 2000s saw passenger numbers grow spectacularly after Ryanair chose Girona as one of its European hubs. In 1993, Girona Airport dealt with only 275,000 passengers; but in the six years from 2002 to 2008 passenger numbers increased by nearly ten times from just over 500,000 to more than 5.5 million. In 2010, around 4.8 million passengers passed through the airport.

Many people use Girona Airport as an alternative airport for Barcelona, though the airport is 92 km (57 mi) north of Barcelona. Passengers can transfer to Barcelona by bus or taxi from the airport or by train from Girona railway station. Many car hire companies are also available at the airport terminal. Barcelona city centre can be easily reached in 60 minutes from the airport by road.

Ryanair has a major base here. It is Ryanair's third largest in Europe and from May 2010 Ryanair will operate 62 routes from Girona

Alongside being an alternative option to Barcelona Airport, Girona Airport is convenient for the resorts along the Costa Brava, such as Lloret de Mar, l'Estartit and Blanes. It is about a 40 minute drive from the French border and many people use Girona Airport as a way of getting to the Pyrenees and the ski resorts of Andorra.

By car

The airport is served by three main roads:

E-15/AP-7 toll road (Perpignan, France - south of Spain)

C-25 (Lleida-Vic- Girona)

N-II, no-toll road (Madrid - Barcelona - Perpignan, France)

By bus

There are 4 bus lines operating in the airport:

Airport - Barcelona (1 hour 10 minutes, departure times depending on flights. On Sunday the last bus leaves Barcelona at 7.15pm)

Airport - Costa Brava/Maresme (Stops at Tossa de Mar, Lloret de Mar, Blanes, Malgrat de Mar, Santa Susanna, Pineda de Mar and Calella de la Costa),

Airport - North Costa Brava (Stops at Figueres, Roses, Pineda de Mar, Calella de Palafrugell and Tossa de Mar)

Airport - Girona (25 minutes, one every hour).

Airport - Perpignan in France. Frogbus. 6 times daily. Stops at Le Boulou.

Córdoba Airport

Córdoba Airport (IATA: ODB, ICAO: LEBA) is an airport located 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from the central business district of the city of Córdoba, Spain.

Airlines and Destinations

At the present, the airport has no scheduled airlines operating (please not to be confused with Córdoba in Argentina, which is Ingeniero Ambrosio L.V. Taravella International Airport)

Ciudad Real Central Airport

Ciudad Real Central Airport (ICAO: LERL) is an airport in South Ciudad Real (Spain). It is located adjacent to the A43 highway and a short distance from the AP41 toll highway and will have a connection to the Madrid-Seville high speed train line, making it the first Spanish airport accessed via the AVE system, 50 minutes from downtown Madrid, 50 minutes from Córdoba, and less than 2 hours from Seville and Málaga. It is the first international private airport in Spain. The airport construction project had a budget of 1.1 billion euro.

It was previously known as Don Quijote Airport and South Madrid Airport.

Current Situation

The airport has turned out to be a financial disaster so far. Due to poor planning and overoptimism on the part of large financial investors major deficiencies in the early planning stages were overlooked. A single airline has signed up to fly out of the airport and none of the potential airlines that were considered were actually interested in utilizing the airport. The actual passenger traffic has measured in the low thousands, compared to the anticipated traffic of up to 10 million. The future outlook looks equally bleak. The airport has contributed significantly to the financial trouble of the creditor institutions.

Cancelled Routes

Up until the 11th of November 2010, the airport serviced flights from London Stansted with the low cost carrier Ryanair carrying approximately 22,000 passengers. This link was an important international link for the city and the province of Ciudad Real but also to the community of Castilla-La Mancha. The route operated 3 times weekly, but due to a breakdown in trade agreements with Ryanair and financial difficulties of the airport, the route was cancelled. 20 jobs were lost in the process.

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.