Alicante–Elche Miguel Hernández Airport
Appearance
Alicante Airport Aeropuerto de Alicante | |||||||||||
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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°N 0.55861°W | ||||||||||
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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 of Elx.
Alicante is the major airport on Costa Blanca, so 80% traffic is international.
In 2005, the airport carried 8,796,321 passengers.
A new Terminal is under construction 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)
- 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
- operated by GB Airways (London-Gatwick)
- Bulgaria Air (Sofia)
- easyJet (Basel, Belfast, Bristol, Dortmund, Edinburgh, Geneva, Glasgow, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Newcastle, Nottingham-East Midlands)
- Flybe (Exeter, Norwich, Southampton)
- Flyglobespan (Aberdeen, Durham Tees Valley, Edinburgh, Glasgow)
- Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn)
- Helvetic Airways (Zurich)
- Iberia (Barcelona, Madrid)
- operated by Air Nostrum (Asturias, Bilbao, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Lisbon, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Tenerife-North)
- Iceland Express (Reykjavík/Keflavík, Iceland)
- Jet2.com (Blackpool, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester)
- LagunAir (León)
- LTU International (Düsseldorf, Munich)
- Monarch Airlines (Birmingham, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester)
- MyTravel Airways (Belfast Intl, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, London Gatwick, Manchester, East Midlands)
- Norwegian Air Shuttle (Bergen, Oslo, Stavanger, Trondheim, Warsaw)
- Palmair Bournemouth
- Ryanair (Basel, Billund, Bournemouth, Brussles, Doncaster (Sheffield), Dublin, Dusseldorf, East Midlands, Gothenburg City, Karlsuhe - Baden, Liverpool, London Stansted, Maastricht - Aachen, Milan (Orio Al Serio), Paris (Beauvias), Pisa, Stockholm)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Bergen, 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, Coventry, Doncaster-Sheffield, Manchester, Newcastle)
- transavia.com (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Eindhoven)
- vueling (Amsterdam, Paris)
- XL Airways (Glasgow, London Gatwick, Manchester)
External links
- Aena.es - Airport ALC - official page, including gallery and history
- New Terminal Render