Alicante Airport

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Alicante Airport Aeropuerto de Alicante
Image:Torre de Control Aeroport Alacant-Altet.jpg
IATA: ALC – ICAO: LEAL
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Aena
Serves		Alicante (province)
Elevation AMSL		142 ft / 43 m
Coordinates		38°17′01″N 00°33′31″W / 38.28361, -0.55861
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
10/28	9,842	3,000	Asphalt

Alicante International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de Alicante), (IATA: ALC, ICAO: LEAL), originally named El Altet, is the main airport for the regions of Alicante and Murcia in Spain. It is located within the municipality of Elx (Elche), just 9 km southwest of Alicante.

El Altet opened on 1967-05-04, replacing the older airdrome La Rabassa that had served Alicante since 1936. The airport took its name from a part of the city called Elx.

In 2005, the airport carried 8,796,321 passengers. making it the sixth busiest airport by passenger numbers.

In 2007 the low cost airline Ryanair established a base at the airport.

A new Terminal is under construction and is due to be finished in 2009.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Aer Lingus (Cork, Dublin)
Air Algérie (Oran)
Air Berlin (Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Malaga, Münster, Paderborn, Palma de Mallorca, Stuttgart)
Air Europa (Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Tenerife-South)
Air Finland (Helsinki)
Avianca (Bogotá)
bmi (London-Heathrow)
- bmibaby (Birmingham, Cardiff, East Midlands, Manchester)
British Airways (London-Gatwick) [begins March 30]
- operated by GB Airways (London-Gatwick) [ends March 29]
Bulgaria Air (Sofia)
Clickair (Barcelona) [starts February 24]
easyJet (Basel/Mulhouse, Belfast-International, Bristol, Dortmund, Edinburgh, Geneva, Glasgow-International, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Newcastle, Nottingham-East Midlands)
Flybe (Exeter, Norwich, Southampton)
Flyglobespan (Aberdeen, Durham Tees Valley, Edinburgh, Glasgow-International)
Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn)
Helvetic Airways (Zurich)
Iberia (Barcelona [ends February 23], Madrid)
- operated by Air Nostrum (Asturias, Bilbao, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Lisbon, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Tenerife-North)
Iceland Express (Reykjavík-Keflavík)
Jet2.com (Blackpool, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester)
Jetairfly (Brussels, ostend, Liège)
LagunAir (León)
Monarch Airlines (Birmingham, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester)
MyTravel Airways (Belfast-International, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, London-Gatwick, Manchester, East Midlands)
Norwegian Air Shuttle (Bergen, Oslo, Stavanger, Trondheim, Warsaw)
Palmair (Bournemouth)
Ryanair (Basel/Mulhouse, Billund, Bournemouth, Brussels, Doncaster-Sheffield, Dublin, Durham Tees Valley [begins March 4], Dusseldorf, East Midlands, Edinburgh [begins March 5], Gothenburg City, Karlsruhe-Baden, Liverpool, London-Stansted, Maastricht/Aachen, Milan-Orio Al Serio, Newquay [begins March 4], Paris-Beauvais, Pisa, Stockholm-Skavsta)
Scandinavian Airlines System (Bergen,Trondheim, Kristiansand, Oslo, Stavanger)
Spanair (Barcelona, Gran Canaria, Madrid, Tenerife-South)
Sterling Airlines (Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm-Arlanda)
Thomas Cook Airlines (Belgium) (Brussels, Ostend, Liège)
Thomsonfly (Birmingham, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Coventry, Doncaster-Sheffield, Manchester, Newcastle)
transavia.com (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Eindhoven, Groningen, Enschede, Maastricht/Aachen)
Vueling (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
XL Airways (Glasgow-International, Cardiff, London-Gatwick, Manchester)