Alicante (El Altet) Airport
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Alicante International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de Alicante), (IATA: ALC), originally named El Altet, is the main airport for the province of Alicante and the region of Murcia in Spain. Alicante
Airport is located within the municipality of Elche, its facilities lying just 9 km southwest of Alicante. Alicante Airport is the busiest airport in the Valencian community.
El Altet opened on 4 May 1967, replacing the older airdrome La Rabassa that had served Alicante since 1936. It took its name after the El Altet area (a part of Elches countryside) where it was built. The first commercial flight that landed in the airport was Convair Metropolitan by
Aviaco.Iberia established a regular connections Alicante-Madrid and Alicante-Barcelona since November 1969. In early 1970s passengers traffic reached 1 million, which prompted a construction of a new passenger terminal. In later 1970s the runway was extended to three kilometers.
In 2007, Ryanair, the largest European low cost airline established a base at the airport.
In 2008, Alicante Airport handled 9,578,308 passengers, making it the sixth busiest airport by passenger numbers in Spain, and one of the 50 busiest in Europe. The largest number of passengers is carried by EasyJet (1,564,611 passengers in 2008), closely followed by Ryanair (1,415,284). Air Berlin (752.259) is the distant third.
There are two terminals at Alicante Airport, located one adjacent to the other. Terminal 2 is the latest addition to the airport, opening in 2008. In 2007, Terminal 1 of Alicante Airport alone handled 9,120,819 customers, an increase of 2.6% on 2006. These travellers arrive from all over the world and Terminal 2 has opened in order to handle the
increasing number of passengers and to meet their requirements. The airport is extremely busy over the summer months, when the promise of hot sunshine, lazy beaches and sizzling cocktails pull in the tourists! A construction of an AVE high-speed railway terminal within the airport is under consideration.
Alicante Airport Switchboard Tel: 966 919 000
Alicante flight information Tel: 966 919 100
Airlines and Flight Destinations from Alicante El Altat Airport (as at March 2010)
Scheduled flights
Aer Lingus : Belfast-International [seasonal], Cork [seasonal], Dublin
Air Algérie : Oran
Air Berlin : Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Nuremberg [seasonal], Paderborn/Lippstadt [seasonal], Palma de Mallorca, Stuttgart [seasonal], Zürich [seasonal]
Air Europa : Minorca [seasonal], Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Tenerife-South
Air Finland : Helsinki [seasonal]
Bmibaby : Birmingham, Cardiff, East Midlands
Bulgaria : Air Sofia [seasonal]
Cimber Sterling : Copenhagen [seasonal]
City Airline : Gothenburg-Landvetter
EasyJet : Belfast-International, Bristol, Edinburgh [seasonal], Glasgow-International, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
EasyJet : Switzerland Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva
Flybe : Exeter, Southampton
Iberia : Madrid
Iberia regional operated by Air Nostrum Asturias, Bilbao, Ibiza, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Minorca [seasonal] Seville, Tenerife-North [seasonal]
Iceland Express : Reykjavik-Keflavik [seasonal]
Jet2.com : Blackpool, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester [seasonal]
Jetairfly : Brussels, Liège, Ostend
Monarch Airlines : Birmingham, London-Gatwick, London-Luton [seasonal], Manchester
Norwegian Air Shuttle : Bergen, Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Oslo-Rygge, Stavanger, Stockholm-Arlanda, Trondheim, Warsaw
Ryanair : Aarhus [seasonal], Altenburg, Billund, Birmingham, Bologna [seasonal], Bournemouth, Bratislava, Bremen, Bristol, Brussels South-Charleroi, Cork [begins 1 June; seasonal], Derry [seasonal], Doncaster Sheffield [seasonal], Dublin, Durham Tees Valley [seasonal], East Midlands, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Fez, Gdańsk, Glasgow-Prestwick, Gothenburg-City, Hahn, Haugesund, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Kerry [seasonal], Knock [seasonal], Krakow,
Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Lübeck [seasonal], Maastricht/Aachen, Madrid, Marrakech, Memmingen, Milan-Orio al Serio, Newquay [seasonal], Norrköping [begins 5 May], Oslo-Rygge, Oslo-Torp, Palma de Mallorca [seasonal], Paris-Beauvais, Pisa, Poznań [begins 3 May], Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Stockholm-Skavsta, Stockholm-Vasteras [begins 2 April], Valladolid, Vaxjö [begins 1 April], Venice-Treviso, Weeze, Wroclaw, Zaragoza
Scandinavian Airlines : Bergen, Kristiansand [seasonal], Oslo-Gardermoen, Stavanger, Trondheim
Spanair : Algiers [begins 3 April], Barcelona, Lanzarote [seasonal], Madrid, Oran, Tenerife-South [seasonal]
S7 Airlines : Moscow-Domodedovo [begins 1 May; seasonal]
Transavia.com : Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Rotterdam
VIM Airlines : Moscow Domodedovo [seasonal]
Vueling Airlines : Barcelona, Ibiza [seasonal], Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Charter flights
Air Europa : Asturias, Bilbao, Santiago de Compostela
Iberworld : Asturias, Bilbao, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Tenerife-South, Valladolid
Scandinavian Airlines : Oslo-Gardermoen
Swiftair : Bilbao, Ibiza, Santander, Vitoria
Thomas Cook Airlines : Birmingham, East Midlands [seasonal], Glasgow-International, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Thomas Cook Airlines : Belgium Brussels
Thomson Airways : Belfast-International [seasonal], Birmingham, Bristol [seasonal], Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, Durham Tees Valley, East Midlands, Glasgow-International, Leeds/Bradford [Seasonal] Liverpool [ends 27 April], London-Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Transaero : Moscow-Domodedovo [seasonal]
Alicante Airport Parking: Public and long term car parking available
Alicante Airport Bus: Regular bus service from Alicante-Airport Line (C6). Alicante (line C6), Benidorm and Murcia
Alicante Airport Lost luggage: Air Europa Tel: 966 919 017
Alicante Airport Lost luggage: Iberia Handling Tel: 902 341 342
Alicante Airport Lost luggage: Ineuropa Handling Tel: 966 919 498
Alicante Airport Lost luggage: Newco Airport Services Tel: 966 919 407
