Sevilla Airport

About Sevilla

Seville is Southeast of Spain. A provincial capital, seat of the government and parliament of the Comunidad Autónoma de Andalucía. It has more than 700,000 inhabitants, nearly half the population of the whole province.

The city of Seville is found on the plain of the Guadalquivir river which crosses the city from North to South. The river can be navigated from Seville all the way to its outlet near Sanlúcar de Barrameda, on the Atlantic coast. In the past the port of Seville played an important role in commerce between Spain and the Americas and remains today one of the most active river ports of the Iberian peninsula.

About Sevilla Airport

Seville airport is ten kilometres northwest of the capital. It embarked on its largest expansion in 1992. In preparation for the Universal Exhibition, the aircraft parking apron was extended and a new terminal was built, as well as a new access road from the National N-IV road and a new control tower to the south of the runway.

Seville airport does have some international traffic, it basically deals with domestic traffic, which represents 79.8 percent of the total.

During 2005 a total of 3,522,134 passengers passed through the airport, which carried 55,420 flight operations and dealt with 6,336 tonnes of cargo.

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