Jerez Airport

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Jerez Airport (Aeropuerto de Jerez)
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IATA: XRY - ICAO: LEJR
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Aena
Serves		Jerez de la Frontera
Elevation AMSL		93 ft (28 m)
Coordinates		36°44′40.″N, 06°03′36″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
02/20	7,546	2,300	Asphalt

Jerez Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Jerez) (IATA: XRY, ICAO: LEJR) is an airport located 6.25 miles (10km) north of Jerez de la Frontera in Southern Spain, about 50 miles (80km) from Sevilla and 28.1 miles (45km) from Cadiz. It is a modern airport with the principal arrivals and departures areas on the ground floor.

Jerez Airport is conveniently located for access to Cadiz, Tarifa, Seville or even the Costa del Sol which is only a 90 minute drive away.

Most visitors at the airport arrive from Germany and the UK however around 36% of all passengers arrive at Jerez Airport are on domestic Spanish flights.

Ryanair introduced regular flights between Jerez Airport and London which helped increase passenger numbers at the airport to 1.1 million in 2004.

1 Statistics
2 Ground Transportation
3 Airlines and destinations
4 External links

[edit] Statistics

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Passenger numbers (in thousands) and operations since 2000:

Year	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Passengers (thousands)	692	802	771	846	1,117	1,297	1,382
Operations	24,800	26,988	32,687	24,946	26,599	38,235	46,535

[edit] Ground Transportation

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There are regular buses to and from the airport to Jerez, El Puerto de Santa Maria and Cádiz. Taxis to the center of Jerez cost around €15 and car hire rates are possible with companies such as Avis and Europcar at the airport. Exit from motorway A-4 is Jerez Nord.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Aerolineas de Baleares (Barcelona)
Air Berlin (Berlin-Tegel, Faro, Hamburg, Münster, Paderborn-Libbstadt, Palma de Mallorca)
Air Europa (Palma de Mallorca)
Clickair (Barcelona)
Condor Airlines (Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart)
Iberia (Madrid)
Lagun Air (Leon, Salamanca, Valladolid)
Luxair (Alicante, Luxembourg)
Ryanair (Hahn, London-Stansted)
Spanair (Barcelona, Bilbao, Gran Canaria, Madrid, Tenerife-South)
TUIfly (Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart)
Vueling Airlines (Barcelona, Madrid)