Girona airport

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Aeropuerto de Gerona
Aeroport de Girona - Costa Brava
Girona-Costa Brava Airport - View from plane.JPG
Characteristics
ICAO code LEGE
IATA code GRO
Coordinates

41 ° 54 '3 "  N , 2 ° 45' 38"  E Coordinates: 41 ° 54 '3 "  N , 2 ° 45' 38"  E
Height above MSL 143 m (469  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 8 km south of Girona ,
75 km northeast of Barcelona
Street A2 NII E15
Local transport bus
Basic data
opening April 1, 1967
operator Aena
Terminals 1
Passengers 2,020,138 (2018)
Air freight 133 t (2018)
Flight
movements 		17,874 (2018)
Capacity
( PAX per year) 		7.2 million
Start-and runway
02/20 2400 m × 45 m asphalt

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The Girona Airport ( IATA code GRO , ICAO code MAKE , katal. Aeroport de Girona - Costa Brava , . Span Aeropuerto de Gerona ) is an international commercial airport in Girona on the Costa Brava in Catalonia ( Spain ). It is mainly used by Ryanair .

Location and transport links

The airport is 8 km south of Girona and around 75 km northeast of the center of Barcelona on the municipality of Vilobí d'Onyar .

  • to Barcelona and the Costa Brava : In front of the terminal, there is a bus to Barcelona center ( Estació del Nord ) and several times a day to the seaside resorts of the Costa Brava such as Lloret de Mar at irregular intervals, as it is tailored to the incoming and outgoing flights .
  • to / via Girona : In front of the terminal there is a bus to the Girona train station / central bus station at regular intervals. From there, express trains and regional trains leave for Barcelona every hour.

history

Inside view of the terminal

In order to cope with the growing tourism at the beginning of the 1960s, the companies and holiday resorts in the province of Girona requested the construction of an airport. They took over 35% of the construction costs; the land was made available by the provincial administration. The airport was opened on April 1, 1967. Until then, the entire charter air traffic had been handled via Perpignan Airport and with shuttle buses on the roads that were congested in summer to the holiday resorts on the Costa Brava .

The first few years of operation proved the high expectations right. At the beginning of the 1970s, more than a million passengers were counted annually. The Iberia addressed a daily scheduled flight to Madrid , and charter traffic grew so strong that the runway extended and less than ten years after the opening already a new terminal to be built had. Between 1967 and 1973 the number of annual flight movements rose from around 1,400 to over 12,000.

Then began an apparently unstoppable decline. The reasons for this were varied. On the one hand, the ongoing construction of motorways in France and Spain led to a shift in tourist flows from charter flights to road. On the other hand, the dominance of the nearby major Barcelona airport deprived Girona airport of the remaining passenger potential. And finally, the airport management was not able to counteract this development. For almost thirty years all attempts to set up a regular service again failed. The low point was reached at the beginning of the 1990s. There were no more scheduled flights and only a few charter flights in summer. Otherwise there were only pilot training flights.

Since the liberalization of air traffic in Europe and the inclusion in the Ryanair route network in 2003, the airport experienced another boom until 2008. From 2009, however, the number of passengers fell again.

In August 2019, Ryanair announced that it would close its base at Girona Airport by the end of the year. In December 2019, this decision was revoked on the condition that the employees at the site consented to be unemployed for three months a year. The majority of the 160 employees affected agreed to the compromise.

Airlines and Destinations

Girona is primarily served by European low-cost and charter airlines, for example Ryanair , which operates a base here. Ryanair offers flights to Frankfurt-Hahn and Karlsruhe / Baden-Baden , among others . The other airlines that offer scheduled flights from Girona are Pobeda , which flies to Moscow-Vnukovo , and Jet2.com , which flies to six destinations in the UK . Girona Airport has signed a contract with Ryanair. This ensures Ryanair low airport fees if Ryanair simultaneously transports a certain number of tourists to the region each year.

Traffic figures

Source: Aena
Traffic figures for Aeropuerto de Girona-Costa Brava 2000–2018
year Passenger volume Air freight ( tons ) Flight movements
2018 2,020,138 133 17,874
2017 1,946,694 126 19,254
2016 1,664,856 51 18,815
2015 1,775,326 96 19,529
2014 2,160,745 93 20,630
2013 2,736,867 46 27,050
2012 2,844,571 134 27,676
2011 3,007,977 62 27,799
2010 4,863,954 63 43.291
2009 5,286,970 71 48.127
2008 5,510,970 184 49,927
2007 4,848,604 234 45.289
2006 3,614,254 484 33,439
2005 3,533,564 241 32,126
2004 2,962,988 143 28,668
2003 1,448,796 290 20,138
2002 557.187 494 14,907
2001 622.410 174 13,513
2000 651.402 384 13,742

Web links

Commons : Girona-Costa Brava Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Introduction. Aena.es , accessed October 30, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Estadísticas de tráfico aéreo. Aena.es , accessed October 30, 2019 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ Distance from Girona – Costa Brava Airport to Sagrada Família in center of Barcelona - Google Maps
  4. ^ Report in El Punt of April 10, 2007 (Catalan)
  5. ^ History. Aena.es , accessed December 29, 2018 .
  6. ↑ RP ONLINE: Hundreds of jobs affected: low-cost airline Ryanair closes four locations at the end of the year. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Ryanair impone condiciones extremas a su plantilla para seguir en Girona. December 10, 2019, accessed December 10, 2019 (Spanish).
  8. ↑ Airport destinations. Aena.es , accessed December 29, 2018 .
  9. ↑ a b Estadísticas de tráfico aéreo. Aena.es , accessed December 29, 2018 (Spanish).