Granada-Jaen Airport

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Aeropuerto Federico García Lorca de Granada-Jaén
Aeropuerto de Granada.png
Characteristics
ICAO code LEGR
IATA code GRX
Coordinates

37 ° 11 '19 "  N , 3 ° 46' 38"  W Coordinates: 37 ° 11 '19 "  N , 3 ° 46' 38"  W.
Height above MSL 567 m (1860  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 16 km west of Granada ,
64 km south of Jaén
Street A92
Local transport bus
Basic data
opening 1972
operator Aena
Terminals 1
Passengers 1,126,417 (2018)
Air freight 0.336 t (2018)
Flight
movements 		13,618 (2018)
Capacity
( PAX per year) 		2.2 million
Start-and runway
09/27 2900 m × 45 m asphalt

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The Granada-Jaén Airport ( Spanish Aeropuerto Federico García Lorca de Granada-Jaén , Aeropuerto FGL for short ) is a commercial airport in the province of Granada ( Spain ) in the south of the Iberian Peninsula . It is located in the Andalusia region about 16 km west of the city of Granada and about 64 km south of Jaén .

history

The location of today's Granada Airport has only existed since the early 1970s. However, aviation in the province of Granada dates back to 1895, when the first balloon flights took place in the area of ​​the suburb of Armilla in the south-west of Granada. During the "Feria del Corpus de Granada" in 1911, the first flight festival was held, which was repeated several times in the following years, with interruptions during the First World War.

The unrest that broke out in Spanish Morocco shortly afterwards in 1921 led to the official opening of a military airfield on the grounds of the flight festival in 1922 , which was named Aeródromo Dávila in 1925 , after a pilot who had an accident that year. After the end of the uprising, the airfield became a civil airfield, the first connection of which was to Seville in 1929 . After only one year, the line was discontinued and the square was used again for military purposes , even during the civil war .

Civil flight operations began a second time in 1946 and as the number of passengers increased due to the emerging tourism , the infrastructure was expanded in the 1950s. However, this did not include a paved runway.

The emergence of jet air traffic in the 1960s led to the construction of a new airport between the villages of Chauchina and Santa Fe, which opened in 1972 after a two-year construction period and has since handled civilian flight operations. The military remained at the old location and still uses the location as a base area de Armilla , in particular as a heliport for Ala 78 (78th squadron).

In the run-up to the Alpine World Ski Championships in 1996 in the Sierra Nevada , today's airport was modernized and expanded and on June 13, 2006 it was named Federico García Lorca Granada-Jaén , in memory of Federico García Lorca .

meaning

In the passenger statistics of all Spanish airports, Granada-Jaén Airport recorded 1,126,417 passengers in 2018. In the ranking of the airports in Andalusia , it ranks fourth after Málaga , Seville and Jerez , ahead of Almería and Córdoba .

Traffic figures

Source: Aena
Traffic figures from Aeropuerto Federico García Lorca de Granada-Jaén 2000–2018
year Passenger volume Air freight ( tons ) Flight movements
2018 1,126,417 0.336 13,618
2017 901.967 1.291 12,539
2016 751.287 6,901 11,333
2015 707.270 0.990 11,089
2014 650,542 3,589 10,348
2013 638.288 12.636 10,563
2012 728.428 27.933 11,376
2011 872.752 34,472 13,142
2010 978.254 37.889 13,843
2009 1,187,813 41.150 16,300
2008 1,422,014 66.889 19,279
2007 1,467,625 72,443 21,822
2006 1,086,236 69.554 17,583
2005 875.827 65.871 15,746
2004 590.931 85.891 13,584
2003 525,869 101,201 12,804
2002 486.756 95.415 11,188
2001 514.966 121.419 10,444
2000 509,442 120.676 9,906

Web links

Commons : Federico García Lorca Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b History. Aena.es , accessed January 9, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Introduction. Aena.es , accessed October 30, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Estadísticas de tráfico aéreo. Aena.es , accessed October 30, 2019 (Spanish).
  4. ↑ a b Estadísticas de tráfico aéreo. Aena.es , accessed January 9, 2019 (Spanish).