Valencia Airport

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Aeropuerto de Valencia
Aena Valencia logo.png
Valencia Airport Terminal.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code LEVC
IATA code VLC
Coordinates

39 ° 29 '22 "  N , 0 ° 28' 54"  W Coordinates: 39 ° 29 '22 "  N , 0 ° 28' 54"  W.
Height above MSL 69 m (226  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 8 km west of Valencia
Street A3
Local transport Bus
Metro :
Metro Valencia Lines 3 and 5
Basic data
opening March 1933
operator Aena
Terminals 1
Passengers 7,769,804 (2018)
Air freight 14,500 t (2018)
Flight
movements 		75,837 (2018)
Capacity
( PAX per year) 		10.5 million
Start-and runway
12/30 3200 m × 45 m asphalt

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The Valencia Airport ( Valencian Aeroport de Valencia , Spanish Aeropuerto de Valencia , also Aeroport de Manises or Aeropuerto de Manises called) is the international passenger airport of the Spanish city of Valencia , the capital of the autonomous community and the eponymous province .

Location and transport links

The airport is located in the city of Manises , around eight kilometers west of the city center of Valencia on the Autovia del Este (Autovia de Valencia) A-3. It can be reached from the north and south via the Autovia del Mediterráneo A-7 or Autopista del Mediterráneo AP-7 (toll road). The metro lines 3 and 5 connects the airport in a short cycle sequence with the city.

history

Today's airport opened in 1933 and the first scheduled flight to Madrid took place in 1934. Before the Spanish Civil War, it was home to the “Aero Club de Valencia” and after the outbreak of the civil war in the summer of 1936 served the government of the Spanish Republic as the main base of their air forces in the Levant, which were deployed on the Teruel Front, among others. At the end of the war there were Polikarpov I-15 aircraft lying here .

On July 27, 1939, passenger air traffic was resumed. The Air Force Base Aérea de Manises was founded in 1944 and the first paved runway was built in 1946, with two more following in the late 1940s.

The military base became the first home base of Spanish F-86 (C.5) fighters, which formed the 11th Squadron ( Ala 11 ) from 1955 , and the original runway was expanded in late 1950.

Ala 11 converted to the Mirage III E (C.11) between 1970 and 1972 , and a new civilian terminal was inaugurated in 1983. The Mirage III should first be modernized two decades later. However, this program was discontinued in favor of the procurement of further, this time used, Mirage F1 (C.14), which were taken over by Qatar in 1992. Five years later, the Spanish government made the decision to abandon the Manises base as a fighter aircraft base for the Air Force, and Manises was closed in the summer of 1999, with the name of the Ala 11 being transferred to the squadron in Morón and the aircraft being relocated to Los Llanos base. The military or paramilitary use continues, however.

In connection with the America's Cup in 2007 , the airport was modernized and expanded again, including a new terminal building.

In 2018, around 7.8 million passengers were handled, which corresponds to an increase of 15.2% compared to 2017.

(Para-) military use

Today Manises is only used by the Civil Guard and the Coast Guard Sociedad de Salvamento y Seguridad Marítima (SASEMAR).

  • Unidad Aérea de Valencia of the Guardia Civil, equipped with various types of Airbus helicopters .
  • Centro de Coordinación de Salvamento (CCS Valencia) of SASEMAR, equipped with CN235-300 patrol aircraft and AW139 helicopters

Airlines and Destinations

Manises Airport is served by scheduled airlines such as B. Iberia Express , Air France , Swiss and Lufthansa as well as Eurowings , as well as low-cost airlines such as Ryanair , which has named the airport as the fourth Spanish base. Currently (2019) around 40 destinations can be reached with Ryanair alone, including the German airports Berlin-Schönefeld , Weeze and Frankfurt-Hahn .

Traffic figures

Source: Aena
Traffic figures for the Aeropuerto de Valencia 2000–2018
year Passenger volume Air freight ( tons ) Flight movements
2018 7,769,804 14,500 75,837
2017 6,745,231 13,126 68,042
2016 5,798,853 12,581 62,804
2015 5,055,127 13,540 59.007
2014 4,597,095 12,640 56,438
2013 4,618,072 11,679 57.161
2012 4,752,020 11,126 59,828
2011 4,979,511 10,509 70,397
2010 4,934,268 11,428 77,806
2009 4,748,997 9,792 81.126
2008 5,779,343 13,326 96,795
2007 5,933,424 13,335 96,616
2006 4,969,120 13,068 87,920
2005 4,639,314 12,218 87,045
2004 3,111,951 12,169 72,679
2003 2,432,126 11,770 65,548
2002 2,138,926 11,835 67.213
2001 2,301,191 11,078 69,597
2000 2,261,943 10,906 64,075

Incidents

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History. Aena.es , accessed November 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Introduction. Aena.es , accessed November 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Estadísticas de tráfico aéreo. Aena.es , accessed November 7, 2019 (Spanish).
  4. ↑ Airlines. Aena.es , accessed November 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Airport destinations. Aena.es , accessed November 7, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b Estadísticas de tráfico aéreo. Aena.es , accessed December 22, 2018 .
  7. ^ Accident report Bristol 170 EC-AHJ , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 11, 2018.
  8. ^ Derek A. King: The Bristol 170 . Air-Britain (Historians), Staplefield, 2011, ISBN 978 0 85130 405 2 , p. 243.