Bilbao airport

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Aeropuerto de Bilbao
Bilbo-Loiuko aireportua
Airport Bilbao1.JPG
Characteristics
ICAO code LIVB
IATA code BIO
Coordinates

43 ° 18 '4 "  N , 2 ° 54' 38"  W Coordinates: 43 ° 18 '4 "  N , 2 ° 54' 38"  W.
Height above MSL 42 m (138  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 9 km north of Bilbao
Street N-633
Basic data
opening September 19, 1948
operator Aena
Terminals 1
Passengers 5,469,406 (2018)
Air freight 1,216 t (2018)
Flight
movements 		49,966 (2018)
Runways
10/28 1910 m × 45 m asphalt
12/30 2600 m × 45 m asphalt

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The airport Bilbao ( Spanish Aeropuerto de Bilbao , Basque Bilbo Loiuko aireportua ; IATA code : BIO , ICAO code : LEBB ) is an international commercial airport near Bilbao in the Basque Autonomous Community in northern Spain . The operating company of the airport is the Spanish stock corporation Aena . It is one of the busiest in Spain. The airport is about 13 km northwest of the city of Bilbao in the district of Loiu.

Airport building

Airport building seen from the tarmac

The terminal designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava was completed in 2005. It is called La Paloma (dt. The dove ) because of its distinctive shape . It mainly consists of two levels. Departures are on the upper level and arrivals on the lower level. Some of the major airlines have their own desks in the departure area.

Airlines and Destinations

Bilbao is an international airport with regular domestic, European and global connections several times a day. The number of passengers on routes to and from abroad has risen continuously in recent years.

Spain

Madrid , Granada , Jerez de la Frontera , Malaga , Seville , Fuerteventura , Gran Canaria , Lanzarote , Tenerife , Barcelona , Alicante , Valencia , Santiago de Compostela , Vigo , Palma de Mallorca , Menorca , Ibiza . The airlines that operate the routes are (as of 2018) Iberia , Vueling , Air Europa , Volotea , AirNostrum . Some destinations are only offered seasonally, with the majority of destinations being served regularly and sometimes several times a day.

Germany

Direct flights to be several times daily Frankfurt , Munich , Stuttgart , Dusseldorf and seasonal to Berlin from Lufthansa , Euro Wings and Vueling offered.

Switzerland

Since 2015, Swiss has been connecting Bilbao directly to Zurich every week .

Austria

The Spanish airline Volotea connects Bilbao directly with Vienna .

Europe and International

Direct flights, most of them daily, take place between Bilbao and Brussels , Paris , Dublin , Florence , Rome , Milan , Venice , Amsterdam , Lisbon , Bristol , Edinburgh , London , Prague , Manchester , Oslo , Stockholm and Istanbul . Some destinations are only served seasonally.

The airlines that serve these destinations directly are Aer Lingus , Air France , British Airways , Czech Airlines , easyJet , KLM , Ryanair , TAP Portugal , Brussels Airlines , Norwegian and Turkish Airlines .

Traffic figures

In recent years, the number of passengers has risen continuously, which makes Bilbao Airport one of the busiest airports in the north of the Iberian Peninsula and thus steadily expands its catchment area by many hundreds of kilometers, even into the neighboring French Basque Country.

Source: Aena
Aeropuerto de Bilbao traffic figures 2000–2018
year Passenger volume Air freight ( tons ) Flight movements
2018 5,469,406 1,216 49,966
2017 4,973,809 1.956 46,990
2016 4,588,339 2,974 45.105
2015 4,277,725 2,872 43,862
2014 4,015,350 2,856 42,590
2013 3,800,774 2,538 42,683
2012 4,171,065 2.263 50,028
2011 4,046,172 2,634 54,446
2010 3,888,955 2,548 54,119
2009 3,654,957 2,691 54,148
2008 4,172,903 3,179 61,682
2007 4,286,751 3.231 63,076
2006 3,876,072 3,418 58,574
2005 3,843,953 3,957 56,285
2004 3,395,773 4.153 50,361
2003 2,850,524 3.814 44.009
2002 2,463,698 3,699 39,832
2001 2,491,770 3,674 44.166
2000 2,556,373 4,039 45.506

Transport links

Car, taxi and rental car

The airport can be reached by car from the city center via the motorway (subject to a charge) in around 10-15 minutes (Autovía BI-631 Salida 11). Several parking garages, which are directly connected to the airport building, are available to all travelers depending on the purpose ("long parking" or "short parking"). Parking at the terminal is free for less than 15 minutes.

Taxis are available outside the terminal. Taximeters indicate the price. For longer journeys, a fixed price can also be agreed in advance.

Rental cars can be rented inside the airport building. In addition to the well-known, global companies, there are also smaller, Spanish companies. It is usually worth making a comparison on the Internet beforehand.

bus

City bus Bizkaibus : The BizkaiBus A3247 runs at regular intervals (every 15 minutes) between the airport and the city area. The four stops are currently in the immediate vicinity of the Guggenheim Museum ( Alameda Recalde 11 , approx. 15 minutes), the central Plaza Moyua ( Moyua Plaza , approx. 20 minutes), Gran Vía ( Gran Vía 79 , approx. 25 minutes) as well the terminus, the Termibus bus station (near the San Mamés football stadium , approx. 30 minutes). The buses usually run between 5:15 a.m. and 10 p.m. The trip costs € 1.30 per person in one direction. By purchasing a Creditrans card for € 5, the price drops to € 1.05. The Creditrans card can be purchased in the airport building not far from the bus stop and can also be used for inner-city transport such as the BilboBus city ​​bus , the EuskoTran tram , the underground ( Metro ) and the regional EuskoTren for several people and is worthwhile for longer trips Stay in Bilbao.

The terminus, the Termibus bus station (approx. 30 minutes travel time), is the hub for other long-distance buses to all of Spain.

Regional bus Lurraldebus: The Lurraldebus serves the routes Bilbao - Zarautz - San Sebastián / Donostia and the connection Bilbao - Éibar - Bergara - Mondragón / Arrasate at regular intervals

Both BizkaiBus and Lurraldebus arrive at the upper level (departure) but depart from the lower level (arrival).

Unlike in many German cities, it is the custom in Bilbao to queue up and keep the order of the people waiting. This impression is immediately noticeable for newcomers at the airport.

Subway

Work on a metro link between Bilbao city center and the airport is currently ongoing. Starting in 2020, the planning to expand the new Línea 3 to this connection will take concrete shape. The travel time between the city center and the airport should be around 7 minutes.

Incidents

  • On December 28, 1972, a crashed Fokker F28-1000 of Iberia ( air vehicle registration number (EC-BVC) ) at a training flight at the airport Bilbao. After a warning about asymmetrically extended landing flaps, a landing was carried out with the flaps retracted, in heavy rain and a tail wind. In addition, it was touched down late, so that the machine rolled over the end of the runway and got into bumpy terrain, where it broke into three pieces. All four pilots (the only occupants) survived.
  • On February 7, 2001, a crashed Airbus A320-200 of Iberia (EC-HKJ) with 143 passengers on landing at the airport Bilbao. During the final approach, the aircraft got into severe turbulence and heavy winds, so that the pilots wanted to initiate a go-around maneuver. However, due to a concatenation of the various circumstances and a design error, the angle of attack protection system was activated. This prevented the pilots from pulling the machine up so that it crashed onto the runway at a rate of 6 m / s (1200 feet per minute), causing the nose landing gear to collapse and irreparable damage to the seven-month-old machine.

Web links

Commons : Bilbao airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History. Aena.es , accessed on January 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Introduction. Aena.es , accessed November 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Estadísticas de tráfico aéreo. Aena.es , accessed November 8, 2019 (Spanish).
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Airport destinations. Aena.es , accessed November 8, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Europa Press: Norwegian programa un 20% más de enlaces en la ruta Bilbao Estocolmo para el próximo verano . In: europapress.es . November 7, 2018 ( europapress.es [accessed November 30, 2018]).
  6. ↑ a b Estadísticas de tráfico aéreo. Aena.es , accessed November 8, 2019 (Spanish).
  7. ↑ Taxi. Aena.es , accessed November 8, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Public transport. Aena.es , accessed November 8, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Bizkaia.Eus: - Bizkaibus. Retrieved November 30, 2018 (Spanish).
  10. ↑ Joshua Segovia: La conexión del metro con el aeropuerto, algo más cerca . In: Cadena SER Euskadi . April 3, 2017 ( cadenaser.com [accessed November 30, 2018]).
  11. ^ Accident report F28-1000 EC-BVC , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 13, 2019.
  12. ^ Accident report B-727-200 EC-DDU , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 3, 2019.
  13. ↑ Accident report A320 EC-HKJ , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 30, 2019.