Ciudad Real Central Airport (previously known as Don Quijote Airport and South Madrid Airport) (IATA: CQM, 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 Cordoba, 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.

[edit] Facilities

The airport has a single runway (11/29), 4,000 m (13,123 ft) long and 60 m (197 ft) wide servicing national and international commercial flights (regular and charter). Part of the installations are dedicated to private and sport flights, and it will have an area for maintenance, a heliport and an industrial zone of over 8 km². The passenger terminal is planned to process a maximum of 10 million passengers a year, and its cargo facilities are planned to process a maximum of 47,000 tonnes a year.

The airport is now open.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

[edit] External links

• Ciudad Real Central Airport – Homepage
• Provisional airport information
• Accident history for CQM at Aviation Safety Network
• Airport information for LERL at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).
• Current weather for LERL at NOAA/NWS

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