Leon Airport

About Leon

Leon is one of the provincial capitals in Castilla y Leon, a region in the northwest of Spain. Leon is a medium-sized city with a population of about 150.000 inhabitants. It has an important historic core center, with a very rich cultural and built-up heritage of different periods and styles. The Gothic cathedral is the main monument in the city. The Old City corresponds to the roman and medieval area and features a great morphological, functional and social diversity. It has a complex socio-urbanistic problematic, it still retains an essential role in the city life both for its central location and its historic and cultural relevance.

The City Council of Leon has prepared an overall strategy in order to managed the rehabilitation of the historic core. This strategy contains different policy goals, and cover an extensive set of actions. One of them is the implementation of a system for pneumatic solid waste collection in the Old City.

About Leon Airport

León Airport was opened in 1999. It is located on the Virgen del Camino air station, six kilometres from the provincial capital. It is an aerodrome used jointly as a military base and an airport open to civil traffic.

To meet the growing passenger demand, the extension of the runway, the extension of the aircraft parking apron and the installation of an ILS/I to improve operability under adverse weather conditions were inaugurated in October 2005.

During 2005, the airport handled 79,995 passengers, 5,267 operations and 0,3 tonnes of cargo.

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