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Alicante–Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (Шаблон:Lang-es, Шаблон:Lang-ca-valencia), Шаблон:Airport codes, is an international airport located about Шаблон:Convert southwest of the city of Alicante and about Шаблон:Convert east of the city of Elche in Spain. Alicante–Elche is one of the main airports in south-eastern Spain, serving both the southern part of the Valencian Community and the Region of Murcia.

The airport is a base for Air Nostrum, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Ryanair and Vueling. Passenger traffic increased significantly in the 2010s, beating its own yearly record from 2013 to 2019; in 2019 it set a record at 15 million passengers. It is the largest airport in the Valencian Community (well ahead of Valencia and Catellón),[1] one of the 50 busiest in Europe and was Spain's fifth busiest airport in 2019.[2] Up to 80% of all passenger flights are international.[2] The largest numbers of passengers arrive from the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Belgium and Sweden.[3] Popular domestic destinations are Madrid, Palma de Mallorca and Barcelona.

History

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Alicante Airport in 1972

El Altet airport opened on 4 May 1967, replacing the older aerodrome La Rabassa that had served Alicante since 1936. It took its name after the El Altet area (a part of Elche's countryside) where it was built. The first commercial flight that landed at the airport was Convair Metropolitan by Aviaco.[4] In November 1969, Iberia established regular connections to Madrid and Barcelona.[5]

Historically, up until 2003, Iberia was the leading airline at the airport.[6] With the decline of conventional airlines, low-cost EasyJet took the lead in 2004.[6] In June 2006, Avianca commenced a weekly flight from Bogotá to Barcelona whose outbound leg included a stop in Alicante. This was the city's first transatlantic service. Avianca flew the route with a Boeing 767.[7][8] In 2008, the airline ended service to Alicante after Spanish authorities granted it permission to operate the flight nonstop in both directions.[9]

In November 2007, Ryanair, the largest European low-cost airline, established a base at Alicante.[10] It has since grown to become one of the leading carriers at the airport, and by 2011 it had increased its presence further with eleven based aircraft, 62 routes, and had carried more than 3 million passengers.

In March 2011, Alicante-Elche's current terminal opened, which replaced the previous 2 terminals.[11]

The airport is located within Elche's comarca and so there had been a historical petition from Elche to include the city's name in the official name of the airport. On 12 July 2013, the name of the airport was officially changed from Aeropuerto de Alicante to Aeropuerto de Alicante–Elche[12] with the IATA airport code (ALC) remaining unchanged.

In 2015, the number of passengers increased by 5,1% to 10,574,484. The passenger traffic has increased in every year since 2000, with the exception of 2009, 2012 and 2020. By 2015 the largest number of passengers was carried by Ryanair (2,992,984), followed by EasyJet (1,285,221) and Vueling (1,093,494). Norwegian Air Shuttle (893,319) is the distant fourth.[13][14]

On 23 July 2016, the airport registered its busiest day of operations to date, handling 347 flights—with an average of one flight every 3 minutes—and about 58,000 passengers in a single day.[15]

In 2020, the airport recorded more than 11 million less passengers due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[13]

In 2021, the airport was renamed again, this time to Aeropuerto de Alicante–Elche Miguel Hernández, to mark the 110th anniversary of the birth of Spanish poet and playwright Miguel Hernández.[16]

Terminals

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Interior of Terminal N

Terminal N is the only terminal currently in public use.

Terminal N

In November 2004, the airport's operator Aena approved plans to construct a new terminal for ALC, as a response to the airport's continuous passenger growth. Construction began in 2005, with an initial planned completion of 2009/10. After more than 5 years of construction, Terminal N (Nueva Área Terminal) officially opened on 23 March 2011. All flight operations were transferred to this terminal on the following day. The first flight to depart from Terminal N was a Ryanair flight to Memmingen. The terminal has an area of Шаблон:Convert, more than six times the size of the previous 2 terminals and has a capacity of 20 million passengers a year.[11] Terminal N was constructed to the east of terminals 1 and 2 and includes 96 check-in desks, 40 gates, including 15 with airbridges, and 16 baggage claim carousels.[17] The terminal is split into two areas, the processor where the C Gates are held, and the dock where the majority of B Gates are located. Flights within the Schengen Area use both areas of the terminal while flights to non-Schengen destinations only use the dock.

In October 2011, Ryanair terminated 31 routes after airport operator Aena demanded that Ryanair pay over €2 million a year for the use of Terminal N's air bridges, a facility that Ryanair had called "unnecessary" as the airline prefers to use mobile stairways for boarding and disembarking. However, Ryanair have since re-increased their number of routes from the airport.[18][19]

Former terminals

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Terminal 1 prior to its closure (2009)

By 1970, the airport was handling close to 1 million passengers, which prompted the construction of a new passenger terminal, the first phase opening in 1972 for international flights and the second phase opening in 1975 for domestic flights.[20] In 1978, passenger numbers exceeded 2 million.[21] In 1980, the runway was extended to three kilometres.[4]

During the 1990s, the terminals were modernised and expanded in order to accommodate the airport's rising passenger numbers. A new control tower and office building, together with operation and business centres, were constructed and five air bridges were installed to facilitate boarding. Car parking capacity was increased, the aircraft apron was expanded and a new runway exit was also constructed.[20]

While construction on Terminal N was underway, Aena approved plans for an extension to the existing terminal, which would act as an auxiliary until the new terminal was complete. The adjacent extension opened in January 2007 and was named Terminal 2 (T2) and the existing terminal was renamed Terminal 1 (T1).[21]

Terminals 1 and 2 have remained closed, yet structurally intact, since 2011. There has since been speculation that they may reopen in the future.[22][23] Terminal 1 (T1) had 39 check-in desks, 11 departure gates (5 with airbridges) and 9 baggage claim carousels, while terminal 2 (T2) had 14 check-in desks, 6 gates (none with airbridges), and 2 baggage claim carousels.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Alicante–Elche Airport: Шаблон:Airport destination list

Statistics

Annual traffic

Traffic by calendar year
Passengers Aircraft movements Cargo (tonnes)
2000 6,038,266 56,427 7,745
2001 6,542,121 56,550 7,923
2002 7,010,322 59,268 6,548
2003 8,195,454 66,571 5,848
2004 8,571,144 71,387 6,036
2005 8,795,705 76,109 5,193
2006 8,893,720 76,813 4,931
2007 9,120,631 79,756 4,533
2008 9,578,304 81,097 5,982
2009 9,139,607 74,281 3,199
2010 9,382,935 74,474 3,112
2011 9,913,764 75,572 3,011
2012 8,855,764 62,468 2,527
2013 9,638,835 68,305 2,589
2014 10,066,067 71,571 2,637
2015 10,575,288 74,086 3,587
2016 12,344,945 87,113 5,461
2017 13,706,513 89,527 5,040
2018 13,981,320 96,734 4,013
2019 15,047,840 101,408 4,032
2020 3,739,499 37,153 3,519
2021 5,841,181 51,505 3,984
2022 13,202,880 90,109 4,641
Source: Aena Statistics[24]

Busiest routes

Busiest international routes from ALC (2022)
Rank Destination Passengers Change 2021 / 22
1 Шаблон:Flagdeco Manchester 722,771 Шаблон:Increase 241%
2 Шаблон:Flagdeco London-Gatwick 579,083 Шаблон:Increase 240%
3 Шаблон:Flagdeco Brussels 442,976 Шаблон:Increase 64%
4 Шаблон:Flagdeco Amsterdam 436,483 Шаблон:Increase 49%
5 Шаблон:Flagdeco Oslo-Gardermoen 411,426 Шаблон:Increase 224%
6 Шаблон:Flagdeco London-Stansted 372,247 Шаблон:Increase 165%
7 Шаблон:Flagdeco Bristol 359,707 Шаблон:Increase 296%
8 Шаблон:Flagdeco Stockholm-Arlanda 352,308 Шаблон:Increase 106%
9 Шаблон:Flagdeco Birmingham 332,987 Шаблон:Increase 257%
10 Шаблон:Flagdeco East Midlands 312,524 Шаблон:Increase 286%
11 Шаблон:Flagdeco Eindhoven 304,889 Шаблон:Increase 78%
12 Шаблон:Flagdeco Leeds-Bradford 274,374 Шаблон:Increase 332%
13 Шаблон:Flagdeco Dublin 267,878 Шаблон:Increase 173%
14 Шаблон:Flagdeco Newcastle upon Tyne 242,230 Шаблон:Increase 259%
15 Шаблон:Flagdeco London-Luton 241,726 Шаблон:Increase 185%
16 Шаблон:Flagdeco Copenhagen 238,677 Шаблон:Increase 65%
17 Шаблон:Flagdeco Glasgow 235,084 Шаблон:Increase 377%
18 Шаблон:Flagdeco Brussels-Charleroi 227,707 Шаблон:Increase 67%
19 Шаблон:Flagdeco Edinburgh 210,872 Шаблон:Increase 375%
20 Шаблон:Flagdeco Paris-Charles de Gaulle 196,246 Шаблон:Increase 1735%
Source: Estadísticas de tráfico aereo[25]
Busiest Spanish routes from ALC (2022)
Rank Destination Passengers Change 2021 / 22
1 Шаблон:Flagdeco Palma de Mallorca 389,734 Шаблон:Increase 95%
2 Шаблон:Flagdeco Barcelona 364,913 Шаблон:Increase 111%
3 Шаблон:Flagdeco Madrid 280,302 Шаблон:Increase 94%
4 Шаблон:Flagdeco Bilbao 188,276 Шаблон:Increase 75%
5 Шаблон:Flagdeco Santiago de Compostela 170,041 Шаблон:Increase 131%
6 Шаблон:Flagdeco Ibiza 116,282 Шаблон:Increase 66%
7 Шаблон:Flagdeco Asturias 107,236 Шаблон:Increase 119%
8 Шаблон:Flagdeco Tenerife-North 103,398 Шаблон:Increase 61%
9 Шаблон:Flagdeco Seville 55,124 Шаблон:Increase 482%
10 Шаблон:Flagdeco Gran Canaria 45,983 Шаблон:Increase 108%
Source: Estadísticas de tráfico aereo[25]

Ground transport

Alicante airport is accessible by buses, taxis, and private cars on automobile road N-338. New car parking was opened in 2011 together with the new terminal. employs a modern sensor system with displays.

Rail link

The new terminal of the airport was built with space allocated for a railway station and an Alicante Tram stop. In 2019, the Generalitat Valenciana granted €50,000 towards a feasibility study in connecting Alicante Airport to the rail network. [26] The same year, the Ministry of Development put out to tender the contract to build the airport rail link to form part of the Cercanías Murcia/Alicante commuter rail network.[27]

Bus station

Alicante airport has one bus stop for all the bus lines operating at the airport. The airport is connected with the city of Alicante by the C6 bus line.[28] There are also hourly bus services to Benidorm and Torrevieja.

Accidents and incidents

  • In September 2013 a baby died at the airport shortly after arriving with relatives on a flight from London after the child's mother placed the baby in a carrier onto a conveyor belt used for bulky luggage items. The belt activated due to having detected the carrier's weight, and the baby became tangled in the machine's rollers.[29]
  • On April 10, 2017, a Jet2 Boeing 757-200 suffered a tailstrike during landing, damaging the area around the lower tail. The Spanish Civil Aviation Accident and Incident Investigation Commission determined the copilot, who was flying, left the nose too high during the landing and the captain failed to intervene. The copilot, who was on his final day of training after working for Jet2 for two years, reported to investigators he felt stressed due to pressure from Jet2 and was sleeping poorly. Jet2 fired the copilot following the accident.[30]
  • In January 2020 a fire in the international terminal's roof caused a 24-hour closure of the airport, with the diversion of 160 flights.[31]

See also

References

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External links

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