Lanzarote Airport

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Aeropuerto de Lanzarote-Arrecife
Aeródromo Militar de Lanzarote
View from the east in May 2006
Characteristics
ICAO code GCRR
IATA code ACE
Coordinates

28 ° 56 ′ 44 ″  N , 13 ° 36 ′ 19 ″  W Coordinates: 28 ° 56 ′ 44 ″  N , 13 ° 36 ′ 19 ″  W
Height above MSL 14 m (46  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center about 5 km west of Arrecife
Street LZ-2
Local transport Bus routes 22, 23, 161
Basic data
opening 1936 (1970)
operator AENA
Terminals 2
Passengers 7,389,025 (2017)
Air freight 1825 t (2017)
Flight
movements 		59,476 (2017)
Start-and runway
03/21 2400 m × 45 m asphalt

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The Lanzarote Airport is a Spanish airport on the island of Lanzarote near the island's capital Arrecife . It ranks tenth on the list of airports in Spain (as of the end of 2008) and is the third largest in the Canary Islands after Gran Canaria and Tenerife South . The airport is also used by the Spanish Air Force as the Aeródromo Militar de Lanzarote .

Airlines and Destinations

The airport, which belongs to the island's capital, Arrecife, has direct flights from numerous German airports in around four and a half hours and is also served by Spanish airlines. In the charter several flying British companies to Lanzarote. The majority of passengers from Europe fly in from Great Britain , Germany , Austria and the Netherlands .

history

In 1936 the construction of a makeshift airport began. In the summer of 1940, five kilometers west of Arrecife, on the Costa de Guacimeta in the municipality of San Bartolomé , a military airfield was built to defend the archipelago by the Spanish air force . In 1946 this was provisionally released for civil air traffic and officially opened for domestic flights in 1947 after some renovations. After various expansion work and the construction of an apron in the 1950s, the airport was given a 1850 meter long and 45 meter wide, paved runway with temporary lighting in 1965 .

In 1969 the airport was extensively expanded with a terminal building, apron, energy supply and radio technology, on March 3, 1970 it was opened for international civil passenger air traffic. Due to the steadily growing number of passengers due to increasing tourism, significant improvements in technology and the enlargement of various facilities have been made time and again. In 1999, a 42,000 m², two-storey terminal with 42 check-in counters and, for the first time, closed passenger boarding bridges was opened for six million passengers a year . In addition, there was a new tower and various infrastructure. The now "old" terminal from 1969 has been used as Terminal 2 for flights within the Canary Islands as well as for private and business flights.

Since 2006 the first airport building from 1938 has housed the Museo Aeronáutico , an airport museum on the history of civil and military air traffic on the island.

statistics

Passenger numbers since 2000 (in millions)
As of May 31, 2020
Passengers Flight movements Freight (t)
2000 5,002,551 44,814 6403
2001 5,079,790 43,368 7134
2002 5,123,574 45,050 7201
2003 5,383,426 47,667 7492
2004 5,517,136 48,446 7996
2005 5,467,499 47,158 6629
2006 5,626,087 50.172 6113
2007 5,625,580 52,968 5784
2008 5,438,178 53,375 5429
2009 4,701,669 42,915 4146
2010 4,938,632 46,668 3787
2011 5,543,744 49,675 2873
2012 5,168,775 44,787 2108
2013 5,334,599 44,259 2081
2014 5,882,691 49,576 2052
2015 6,128,971 50,448 1805
2016 6,684,564 54,632 1776
2017 7,388,964 59,477 1824
2018 7,327,129 60,955 1642
2019 7,292,720 60,524 1346
Source: Aena operator statistics

Directions

  • Bus : Lines 22 and 23 go to Arrecife bus station, line 23 also to Playa Honda and 161 to Playa Blanca.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b timetable! accessed on March 30, 2014
  2. ↑ a b c AENA ( Memento of January 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish) , accessed on December 1, 2018.
  3. ↑ passenger numbers on the operator's website ; accessed on May 31, 2020

Web links

Commons : Lanzarote Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files