Alicante–Elche Miguel Hernández Airport

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
Runways
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 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