Alicante Airport (Aeropuerto de Alicante)
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
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
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. Image File history File links Torre_de_Control_Aeroport_Alacant-Altet. ... An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier or simply a location identifier [1], is a three-letter code designating many airports around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). ... The ICAO (IPA pronunciation: ) airport code or location indicator is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. ... Aena is the name of the Spanish state owned company that owns and manage all Spanish airports. ... Location of Alicante province in Spain, in a deeper red shade within the Valencian Community. ... The term above mean sea level (AMSL) refers to the elevation (on the ground) or altitude (in the air) of any object, relative to the average sea level. ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... The metre or meter is a measure of length. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... The metre or meter is a measure of length. ... An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier or simply a location identifier [1], is a three-letter code designating many airports around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). ... The ICAO (IPA pronunciation: ) airport code or location indicator is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. ... Location of Alicante province in Spain, in a deeper red shade within the Valencian Community. ... Capital Murcia Area  â€“ Total  â€“ % of Spain Ranked 9th  11 313 km²  2,2% Population  â€“ Total (2003)  â€“ % of Spain  â€“ Density Ranked 10th  1 226 993  2,9%  108,46/km² Demonym  â€“ English  â€“ Spanish  Murcian  murciano/a Statute of Autonomy June 9, 1982 ISO 3166-2 MU Parliamentary representation  â€“ Congress seats  â€“ Senate... Flag of Elx. ... View of Elche Elche (in Spanish) or Elx (in Catalan) is a city in the Alicante province in Valencia, Spain, near the city of Alicante. ... Location of Alicante in Spain Alicante (Castillian Spanish) or Alacant (Valencian) is the capital of the province of Alicante and of the comarca of the Alacantí, in the southern part of the Valencian community, Spain, a historic Mediterranean port. ...

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 of Elx. 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... is the 124th day of the year (125th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Flag of Elx. ...

Alicante is the major airport on Costa Blanca, so 80% traffic is international. Costa Blanca refers to the over 200 kilometres of coastline belonging to the Province of Alicante in Spain. ...

In 2005, the airport carried 8,796,321 passengers.

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

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)
• Air Europa (Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Tenerife-South)
• Air Finland (Helsinki)
• Avianca (Bogotá)
• bmibaby (Birmingham, Cardiff, East Midlands, London Heathrow, Manchester.)
• British Airways
  • operated by GB Airways (London-Gatwick)
• Bulgaria Air (Sofia)
• easyJet (Basel, Belfast, Bristol, Dortmund, Edinburgh, Geneva, Glasgow, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Newcastle, Nottingham-East Midlands)
• Flybe (Exeter, Norwich, Southampton)
• Flyglobespan (Aberdeen, Durham Tees Valley, Edinburgh, Glasgow)
• Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn)
• Helvetic Airways (Zurich)
• Iberia (Barcelona, Madrid)
  • operated by Air Nostrum (Asturias, Bilbao, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Tenerife-North)
• Iceland Express (Reykjavík/Keflavík, Iceland)
• Jet2.com (Blackpool, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester)
• LagunAir (León)
• LTU International (Düsseldorf, Munich)
• Monarch Airlines (Birmingham, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester)
• MyTravel Airways (Belfast Intl, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, London Gatwick, Manchester, East Midlands)
• Norwegian Air Shuttle (Bergen, Oslo, Stavanger, Trondheim, Warsaw)
• Ryanair (Dublin, Liverpool, Dusseldorf (Weeze) [starts 01 June 2007], Pisa, London-Stansted)
• Scandinavian Airlines System (Bergen, Kristiansand, Oslo, Stavanger)
• Spanair (Barcelona, Gran Canaria, Madrid, Tenerife-South)
• Sterling Airlines (Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm-Arlanda)
• Thomas Cook Airlines (Belgium) (Brussels, Ostend, Liège)
• Thomsonfly (Bournemouth, Coventry, Doncaster-Sheffield, Manchester, Newcastle)
• transavia.com (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Eindhoven)
• vueling (Amsterdam, Paris)

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External links

• Aena.es - Airport ALC - official page, including gallery and history
• New Terminal Render