Gran Canaria Airport

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Aeropuerto de Gran Canaria
Base Aérea de Gando
Airport-LPA.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code GCLP
IATA code LPA
Coordinates

27 ° 55 '55 "  N , 15 ° 23' 12"  W Coordinates: 27 ° 55 '55 "  N , 15 ° 23' 12"  W.
Height above MSL 24 m (79  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 18 km south of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Street GC1
train none yet,
planned: Gran Canaria Express (Las Palmas – Maspalomas)
Local transport Global Bus Lines:
01 (Las Palmas – Puerto Mogán),
04 (Las Palmas – Maspalomas),
60 (Las Palmas – Aeropuerto),
66 (Aeropuerto – Maspalomas),
91 (Las Palmas – Puerto Mogán)
Basic data
opening 1930
operator Aena
surface 1810 ha
Terminals 1
Passengers 13,261,405 (2019)
Air freight 19,628 t (2019)
Flight
movements 		126,452 (2019)
Capacity
( PAX per year) 		20 million
Runways
03R / 21L 3100 m × 45 m asphalt
03L / 21R 3100 m × 45 m asphalt
website
aena.es/en/gran-canaria-airport

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The Gran Canaria Airport ( span. Aeropuerto de Gran Canaria ) ( IATA code : LPA , ICAO : GCLP ) is located on the Canary Island of Gran Canaria in the east of the island, about 18 kilometers south of the island capital Las Palmas and about 25 Kilometers north of Maspalomas , Playa del Inglés and San Agustín , the island's tourist centers. The airport is located on the Bahía de Gando Bay and is also used by the Spanish Air Force as a base area of ​​Gando .

history

In April 1930, a royal decree declared the land and sea facilities to be built at Gando a state airport. The first flight from Madrid to Gran Canaria in 1933 became a scheduled service in 1935. That is why the airport was opened in 1935. In 1934 the first navigation aids were installed. A passenger terminal was added between 1944 and 1946, to which the airlines moved from the previous air base on Lanzarote . In 1946 the airport was opened to the customs airport and for national and international traffic. In 1948, work began on a runway that was only 700 meters long, and in June 1957, paved, it was extended to 2000 meters. In 1960 it was extended again to 3,100 meters. In 1963 extensive expansions took place, for example the construction of a new apron, the expansion of the passenger terminal and the technical facilities. The tower was completed in 1966 and a control center was built a year later. In 1970 the runways were adapted for use by the new jet planes. In 1973 a terminal for domestic flights was opened. A big step was the handover of a second runway to traffic in 1980. The traffic volume increased drastically during this time. The current terminal from 1991 is 100,000 square meters in size, has 76 check-in counters , 11 passenger boarding bridges and 16 baggage handling systems .

Gran Canaria is halfway between South America and Europe, which is why stopovers are still made here, especially for delivery flights by Embraer or Airbus .

Due to a bomb explosion in the airport on March 27, 1977 several flights had to be diverted to the surrounding airports. Two of them caused the plane disaster in Tenerife .

Civil use

Terminal C
The apron
The front of the LPA airport

The airport is part of the Spanish airport network of the state airport operator AENA . Most of the flights go to Germany and Great Britain. The island traffic makes up about 16% and is mainly carried out by Binter Canarias . Both carried around 1.5 million passengers (2005). The number of passengers and freight are among the largest in the Canary Islands. In 2005 it was more than 40,000 tons.

The airport ranks sixth and fifth among the airports in Spain in terms of passenger and freight figures; This is not least due to the fact that the volume of freight and passengers is almost the same throughout the year.

Military use

Launch of a Pegasus with Space Technology 5

Gran Canaria Airport is also home to an air force base (military name: Base Aérea de Gando) of the Spanish Air Force , which borders the runways to the east. In addition to various hangars opposite the passenger terminal, there are ten shelters for fighter-bombers at the southern end of the eastern runway . The base is the base of three flying units:

A Spanish satellite ( Minisat 01 ) has so far been launched once from the air force base . For this purpose, an L-1011 aircraft took off on April 21, 1997 with a Pegasus XL rocket, which was launched at 27 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 15 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  W over the Atlantic .

While the space shuttle was in operation, the airport was a possible emergency landing site in the event of an unscheduled landing.

Incidents

  • On July 6, 1972, a Douglas DC-8-52 of the Spanish Aviaco (EC-ARA) coming from Madrid was flown into the sea 21 kilometers from Gran Canaria Airport. In this CFIT ( Controlled flight into terrain ) all 10 crew members died on board the machine. There were no passengers on board, as the machine was on a positioning flight to fly tourists from Gran Canaria to Hamburg.

Airport data

Aerial view

The optimal meteorological properties of the airport ensure 24-hour operation. There are two parallel runways: the 03L / 21R, which has an ILS CAT III instrument landing system, and the 03R / 21L without an instrument approach procedure. This is used for military operations when required and is only used for civil aviation on busy days. These two 3100 meter long runways allow a maximum of 53 machines per hour. The airport is ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certified.

Traffic figures

Source: Aena
Traffic figures for the Aeropuerto de Gran Canaria 2000–2018
year Passenger volume Air freight ( tons ) Flight movements
2019 13.261.405 19,628 126,452
2018 13,573,304 19,174 131,027
2017 13.092.475 18,110 118,551
2016 12.093.646 18,627 112,000
2015 10,627,218 18,800 100,420
2014 10,315,740 19,870 102.210
2013 9,770,039 18,786 95,485
2012 9,892,067 20,602 100.393
2011 10,538,829 23,679 111.271
2010 9,486,035 24,528 103.093
2009 9,155,665 25,995 101,557
2008 10.212.123 33,695 116.252
2007 10,354,903 37,491 114,355
2006 10,286,726 38,361 114,949
2005 9,827,157 40,390 110,748
2004 9,467,494 40,935 104,659
2003 9,181,229 40,050 99.712
2002 9,009,756 39,639 93,803
2001 9,332,132 40,861 93.291
2000 9,376,640 43,707 98.063

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All Global bus routes in Gran Canaria. Retrieved November 13, 2008 (Spanish).
  2. ^ History. Aena.es , accessed October 31, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c Introduction. Aena.es , accessed October 31, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Estadísticas de tráfico aéreo. Aena.es , accessed April 20, 2020 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ Mando Aéreo de Canarias (MACAN) ( Memento of March 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Spanish Air Force takes delivery of its first H215, Airbus homepage, October 4, 2016
  7. ^ Justine Whitman: Space Shuttle Abort Modes. Aerospaceweb.org, June 25, 2006, accessed October 7, 2011 .
  8. ^ Accident report DC-7 EC-BEO , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 2, 2020.
  9. ^ Accident report DC-8-52 EC-ARA , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 2, 2020.
  10. ↑ a b Estadísticas de tráfico aéreo. Aena.es , accessed December 24, 2018 .