Murcia-San Javier Airport

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Murcia-San Javier Airport Aeropuerto de Murcia-San Javier
IATA: MJV – ICAO: LELC
Summary
Airport type		Joint Public/Military
Owner		Aena
Operator		Aena
Serves		Murcia and Cartagena, Spain
Location		San Javier, Spain
Elevation AMSL		3.353 m / 11.00 ft
Coordinates		37°46′29.90″N 0°48′44.60″W / 37.7749722, -0.8123889
Website		Aena.es: Airport MJV
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
05/23	2,300	7,546	Asphalt
05L/23R	873.8	2,867	Earth
14/32	800	2,625	Earth

Murcia-San Javier Airport (IATA: MJV, ICAO: LELC) is a military air base and civilian passenger airport located in San Javier, 17 miles south of Murcia, Spain. It is operated by Aena (Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea, or Spanish Airports and Aereal Navigation), the Spanish airport authority.

The Murcia airport can receive airplanes up to the size of Boeing 757 or 767. It has been declared fire category 5 by the IATA, and it has one ambulance available. Because Murcia is a popular destination for charter groups, the airport is flown by a number of charter airlines.

Over the last few years, Murcia Airport has become busier, thanks to the arrival of several low-cost airlines. According to Aena, the passenger numbers have jumped from just 88,608 in 1995 to a staggering 848,037 in 2004. In 2006, 1,645,886 passengers used the airport.^[1]

Flying to Murcia-San Javier from somewhere like the UK gives one the choice of seven airlines offering regular, scheduled flights from 17 different UK airports. In addition to some of the airlines mentioned below you can also fly to Murcia on easyJet, Flybe, Flyglobespan, jet2.com, Ryanair, Monarch Scheduled and bmibaby.

Although the airport is on the Costa Cálida, it also lends itself well to people travelling to the southern tip of the Costa Blanca, particularly resort towns such as Torrevieja.

1 Resorts that the airport serves
2 Airlines and destinations
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Resorts that the airport serves

Cartagena
La Manga and Mar Menor
Los Alcazares
San Pedro del Pinatar
Pilar de la Horadada
Torrevieja (including La Mata, Los Altos, and Cabo Roig)
Guardamar de la Segura
La Marina
Pinar de Campoverde

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Air Berlin (Palma de Mallorca)
bmibaby (Birmingham, Cardiff)
Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
easyJet (Bristol, London-Gatwick, Newcastle)
Finnair (Helsinki)
Flyglobespan (Aberdeen, Edinburgh)
Iberia
- Air Nostrum (Barcelona, Madrid)
Jetairfly (Brussels)
Jet2.com (Belfast, Blackpool, Edinburgh, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle)
Monarch Airlines (Birmingham, London Gatwick, Manchester [begins 8 February, 2008])
Norwegian Air Shuttle (Bergen, Oslo, Stavanger, Trondheim)
Ryanair (Frankfurt-Hahn, Bremen, Dublin, Glasgow-Prestwick, Liverpool, London-Luton, London-Stansted, East Midlands, Shannon)
Sterling Airlines (Copenhagen, Stockholm)