Alicante Airport Aeropuerto de Alicante
Control tower, Alicante Airport
IATA: ALC – ICAO: LEAL
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Aena
Serves		Alicante (province)
Elevation AMSL		43 m / 141 ft
Coordinates		38°16′56″N 000°33′29″W / 38.28222°N 0.55806°W / 38.28222; -0.55806 (Alicante Airport)Coordinates: 38°16′56″N 000°33′29″W / 38.28222°N 0.55806°W / 38.28222; -0.55806 (Alicante Airport)
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
10/28	3,000	9,842	Asphalt
Statistics (2008)
Passengers			9,578,308
Passenger growth			+5.0%
Source: Passengers from AENA[1] Spanish AIP at EUROCONTROL[2]

Alicante Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de Alicante), (IATA: ALC, ICAO: LEAL), originally named El Altet, is the main airport for the Province of Alicante and the Region of Murcia in Spain. It is located within the municipality of Elche, its facilities lying just 10 km (6.2 mi) southwest^[2] of Alicante. It is the busiest airport in the Valencian community.

El Altet opened on 4 May 1967, replacing the older aerodrome La Rabassa that had served Alicante since 1936. It took its name after the El Altet area (a part of Elche's countryside) where it was built. The first commercial flight that landed in the airport was Convair Metropolitan by Aviaco.^[3] 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 kilometres.^[3]

In 2007, Ryanair, the largest European low cost airline established a base at the airport.^[4]

In 2008, the airport handled 9,578,308 passengers, making it the sixth busiest airport by passenger numbers in Spain,^[1] 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 the airport, located one adjacent to the other. A new terminal is under construction and is due to be finished by the end of 2010. It will increase the annual airport capacity from 12 to 20 million passengers.^[5] A construction of an AVE high-speed railway terminal within the airport is under consideration.^[6]

Contents 1 Airlines and destinations 1.1 Terminal 1 1.2 Terminal 2 2 References 3 External links

[edit] Airlines and destinations

[edit] Terminal 1

Airlines	Destinations
Aer Lingus	Belfast-International [begins 30 March], 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	Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Tenerife-South
Air Finland	Helsinki
Bmibaby	Birmingham, Cardiff, East Midlands
Cimber Sterling	Copenhagen [begins 16 May]
City Airline	Gothenburg-Landvetter [begins 2 April]
Flybe	Exeter, Southampton
Iberia	Madrid
Iberia operated by Air Nostrum	Asturias, Bilbao, Ibiza, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Seville
Iceland Express	Reykjavik-Keflavik [begins 25 March]
Jet2.com	Blackpool, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester
Jetairfly	Brussels, Liège, Ostend
Monarch Airlines	Birmingham, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Bergen, Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Oslo-Rygge, Stavanger, Stockholm-Arlanda, Trondheim, Warsaw
Scandinavian Airlines System	Bergen, Kristiansand, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stavanger, Trondheim
Spanair	Barcelona, Madrid, Oran
Transaero Airlines	Moscow-Domodedovo
transavia.com	Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Rotterdam
Thomas Cook Airlines	Belfast-International, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow-International, Leeds/Bradford, London-Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Thomson Airways	Belfast-International, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, Durham Tees Valley, East Midlands, Glasgow-International, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle
VIM Airlines	Moscow-Domodedovo
Vueling Airlines	Barcelona, Paris-Charles de Gaulle

[edit] Terminal 2

Airlines	Destinations
EasyJet	Basel/Mulhouse, Belfast-International, Bristol, East Midlands [ends 5 January], Edinburgh, Geneva, Glasgow-International, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Ryanair	Altenburg [begins 31 March], Basel/Mulhouse, Billund, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bratislava, Bremen, Bristol, Brussels South-Charleroi, Derry [seasonal], Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Fez, Friederichshafen, Gdańsk, Glasgow-Prestwick, Gothenburg-City, Hahn, Haugesund, Ireland West Knock [seasonal], Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Kerry [begins 3 March;seasonal], Krakow [begins 30 March], Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Maastricht/Aachen, Madrid, Marrakech, Memmingen, Milan-Orio al Serio, Oslo-Rygge, Oslo-Torp, Paris-Beauvais, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville [begins 31 March], Shannon [ends 25 March], Stockholm-Skavsta, Stockholm-Vasteras [begins 2 April], Valladolid [Begins 1 April], Vaxjö [begins 1 April] Venice-Treviso [begins 1 April], Weeze, Wroclaw, Zaragoza

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Aena.es - Airport ALC - official page; interactive map, gallery and history
• New Terminal Render. Archive copy at the Internet Archive (Spanish)
• New terminal construction: De altos vuelos El Dominical. March 12, 2007. p. 1-4 (Spanish)
• Current weather for LEAL at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for ALC at Aviation Safety Network

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