Ibiza Airport

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Ibiza Airport
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IATA: IBZ - ICAO: LEIB
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Aena
Serves		Ibiza
Elevation AMSL		20 ft (6 m)
Coordinates		38°52′22″N, 01°22′23″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
06/24	9,186	2,800	Asphalt

Ibiza Airport (IATA: IBZ, ICAO: LEIB) is the airport serving the Balearic islands of Ibiza and Formentera, used by 95% of all people who arrive at or depart from these two islands.

The airport traffic is characterised by the seasonal nature of the tourist industry, and as such it handles over 85% of the total volume of passengers during the six months of the peak season (May-October). The airport also offers year-round scheduled inter-island and mainland traffic, with flights operating to primary business hubs, such as Barcelona, Madrid and Palma de Mallorca.

1 History
2 Statistics
3 Airlines and destinations
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

The airport was first established as a temporary military airport during the Spanish Civil War, and remained open after the conflict for use as an emergency airport.

In 1949 the site was used to operate some domestic and international tourist flights, but was then closed in 1951.

It was not until 1958 that work commenced to re-open the airport in reaction to the rapid development of the tourist market in the Balearic Islands, particularly in neighbouring Majorca. The airport was reopened on 1 April 1958 with the first destinations during that year including Ibiza, Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona, Valencia and Madrid.

The airport was expanded progressively over the subsequent decades with runway, taxiway, apron and terminal enhancements designed to cope with the growing air tourist market which by the late 1990s was generating over 3.5 million passengers a year at the airport.

In 2006 the airport handled nearly 4.5 million passengers and over 54,000 air transport movements.

[edit] Statistics


	Number of Passengers	Number of Movements
1997	3,556,828
1998	3,780,181
1999	4,185,633	45,959
2000	4,475,708	52,544
2001	4,472,279	52,079
2002	4,094,446	48,344
2003	4,157,291	47,990
2004	4,171,580	48,798
2005	4,164,703	49,603
2006	4,460,141	54,146
^{Source: Aena Statistics [1]}

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Air Berlin (Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Palma de Mallorca)
Air Europa (Barcelona, Madrid, Southampton)
Aer Lingus (Dublin [begins 17 June])
bmibaby (Cardiff [seasonal], East Midlands [seasonal])
British Airways (London-Gatwick) [begins 30 March]
- operated by GB Airways (London-Gatwick) [ends 29 March]
Condor Airlines (Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart)
easyJet (Belfast-International, Bristol, Geneva, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Milan-Malpensa, Newcastle, Nottingham/East Midlands [seasonal])
Flyglobespan (Edinburgh, Glasgow)
Germanwings (Berlin-Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund [begins 22 June], Stuttgart)
Jet2.com (Belfast-International, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester)
LTU International (Düsseldorf)
Lufthansa (Berlin-Tegel) [begins March 2008]
Monarch Airlines (Birmingham [begins summer], London-Luton, Manchester)
Norwegian Air Shuttle (Oslo [seasonal])
Iberia (Barcelona, Madrid)
- operated by Air Nostrum (Alicante, Málaga, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Valencia)
Spanair (Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid, Seville)
Thomsonfly.com (Belfast, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Conventry, Doncaster Sheffield, Durham Tees Valley, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Humberside, Leeds Bradford, Liverpool, London Gatwick, London Luton, London Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich)
Transavia.com (Amsterdam)
Vueling Airlines (Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia)