Alicante Airport

About Alicante

Alicanteis in Spain with its beautiful boulevard and pleasant shopping street, it is one of the most well-known towns on the Costa Blanca. The coast of Alicante and the Costa Blanca gives its name to the beaches stretching for several kilometers and attracts many sun worshippers. The sun in Alicante shines virtually all the time.

About Alicante Airport

The Alicante airport is situated nine kilometres southwest of the capital, in the municipality of Elche, in one of the most dynamic and up and coming business and economic zones on the coast of the Mediterranean. The essential role played by tourism is reflected in the number of international passenger flights that this airport handles and which make up eighty percent of the total. The main countries of origin of these passengers are the UK, Germany and Holland.

Scheduled domestic traffic has increased in recent years. The destinations most in demand are Madrid, Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca.

To adapt the airport capacity to the growing air traffic demands, a significant infrastructure and improvements are being carried out, particularly in the passenger terminal control area.

During 2005, Alicante airport handled 8,796,321 passengers, 76,100 flight operations and 5,193 tonnes of cargo.

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