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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 kilometers.[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 in 2009. A construction of an AVE high-speed railway terminal within the airport is under consideration.[5]
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Airlines and destinations
Terminal 1
Airlines  |
Destinations |
|---|---|
| Aer Lingus | Cork, Dublin |
| Air Algérie | Oran |
| Air Berlin | Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Nuremberg [seasonal], Paderborn/Lippstadt [seasonal], Palma de Mallorca, Stuttgart [seasonal], Zurich [seasonal] |
| Air Europa | Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Tenerife-South |
| Air Finland | Helsinki |
| Bmibaby | Birmingham, Cardiff, East Midlands, Manchester |
| British Airways | London-Gatwick [ends 24 October] |
| Bulgaria Air | Sofia [ends 22 October] |
| Cimber Sterling | Copenhagen |
| Flybe | Exeter, Southampton |
| Flyglobespan | Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow-International |
| Iberia | Madrid |
| Iberia operated by Air Nostrum | Asturias, Bilbao, Ibiza, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Santander, Seville, Tenerife-North |
| Iceland Express | Reykjavik-Keflavik |
| 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 |
| SkyEurope | Prague, Vienna [suspended and replaced with connection via Bratislava] |
| Spanair | Barcelona, Madrid |
| 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 |
| Thomson Airways | Belfast-International, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, Durham Tees Valley, East Midlands, Glasgow-International, Leeds/Bradford [resumes 3 November], Liverpool [resumes 3 November], London-Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle |
| VIM Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo |
| Vueling Airlines | Barcelona, Ibiza [ends 14 September], Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly [seasonal] |
Terminal 2
| Airlines |
Destinations |
|---|---|
| EasyJet | Basel/Mulhouse, Belfast-International, Bristol, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Geneva, Glasgow-International, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Ryanair | Aarhus, Basel/Mulhouse, Billund, Birmingham, Bologna, Bournemouth, Bratislava, Bremen, Bristol, Brussels South-Charleroi, Derry, Doncaster/Sheffield, Dublin, Durham Tees Valley, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Fez, Gdańsk, Glasgow-Prestwick [begins 25 October], Gothenburg-City, Hahn, Haugesund, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Knock, Leeds/Bradford, Lille, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Lübeck, Maastricht/Aachen, Marrakech, Memmingen, Milan-Orio al Serio, Oslo-Rygge [begins 3 November], Oslo-Torp, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Beauvais, Pisa, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Shannon, Stockholm-Skavsta, Weeze, Wroclaw, Zaragoza |
References
- ^ a b AENA passenger and aircraft movements for 2008
- ^ a b EAD Basic
- ^ a b Alicante Airport airports-worldwide.com
- ^ Ryanair announces 21st base in Alicante, Spain News Release, 09.08.07
- ^ Alicante international airport broadens its horizons TM Real Estate Group
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
