Alicante Airport. How to get to Oliva, Valencia
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Alicante International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de Alicante), (IATA: ALC), originally named El Altet, is the main airport for the province of Alicante and the region of Murcia in Spain. Alicante Airport is located within the municipality of Elche, its facilities lying just 9 km southwest of Alicante. Alicante Airport is the busiest airport in the Valencian community.
El Altet opened on 4 May 1967, replacing the older airdrome La Rabassa that had served Alicante since 1936. It took its name after the El Altet area (a part of Elches countryside) where it was built. The first commercial flight that landed in the airport was Convair Metropolitan by Aviaco.Iberia established a regular connections Alicante-Madrid and
Alicante-Barcelona since November 1969. In early 1970s passengers traffic reached 1 million, which prompted a construction of a new passenger terminal. In later 1970s the runway was extended to three kilometers.
In 2007, Ryanair, the largest European low cost airline established a base at the airport.
In 2008, Alicante Airport handled 9,578,308 passengers, making it the sixth busiest airport by passenger numbers in Spain, and one of the 50 busiest in Europe. The largest number of passengers is carried by EasyJet (1,564,611 passengers in 2008), closely followed by Ryanair (1,415,284). Air Berlin (752.259) is the distant third.
There are two terminals at Alicante Airport, located one adjacent to the other. Terminal 2 is the latest addition to the airport, opening in 2008. In 2007, Terminal 1 of Alicante Airport alone handled 9,120,819 customers, an increase of 2.6% on 2006. These travellers arrive from all
over the world and Terminal 2 has opened in order to handle the increasing number of passengers and to meet their requirements. The airport is extremely busy over the summer months, when the promise of hot sunshine, lazy beaches and sizzling cocktails pull in the tourists!
The construction of an AVE high-speed railway terminal within the airport is under consideration.
Alicante Airport Switchboard Tel: 966 919 000
Alicante flight information Tel: 966 919 100
Parking: Public and long term car parking available
Bus: Regular bus service from Alicante-Airport Line (C6). Alicante (line C6), Benidorm and Murcia
Disabled: Alicante airport caters to wheelchairs, site impaired and hearing impaired travellers. Wheelchairs can be arranged with your carrier. The air company or travel agency should be contacted at least 48 hours before the flight out or return.
Lost luggage: Air Europa Tel: 966 919 017
Lost luggage: Iberia Handling Tel: 902 341 342
Lost luggage: Ineuropa Handling Tel: 966 919 498
Lost luggage: Newco Airport Services Tel: 966 919 407
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