Murcia-San Javier Airport

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Base Aérea de San Javier
(formerly Aeropuerto de Murcia-San Javier)
Tower of the airfield San Javier near Mar Menor Region Murcia Spain - Photo Wolfgang Pehlemann P1120563.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code LELC
IATA code MJV
Coordinates

37 ° 46 '30 "  N , 0 ° 48' 45"  W Coordinates: 37 ° 46 '30 "  N , 0 ° 48' 45"  W.
Height above MSL 3 m (10  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 36 km southeast of Murcia ,
4 km southeast of San Javier
Street AP7 N332
Basic data
opening 1929
operator EdA , formerly also Aena
Terminals 1
Passengers 1,196,587 (2017)
Air freight 0.170 t (2017)
Flight
movements 		8,616 (2017)
Runways
05R / 23L 2320 m × 45 m asphalt
05L / 23R 1577 m × 45 m asphalt

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The Base Aérea de San Javier is a military airfield of the Spanish Air Force in the province of Murcia in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula .

Between 1995 and January 2019 he was parallel to civil aviation as Airport Murcia-San Javier ( Spanish Aeropuerto de Murcia-San Javier ) as an international commercial airport shared.

history

The origin goes back to the San Javier military airfield, which has existed there since 1929 and which was expanded in 1995 for additional civil use. With the opening of the new international airport, Aeropuerto Internacional de la Región de Murcia , located 30 kilometers to the west on January 15, 2019, the international Aeropuerto de Murcia-San Javier was closed to civil air traffic and has only been used for military purposes since then under the name Base Aérea de San Javier . The airfield is located in the district of Santiago de la Ribera of the city of San Javier directly on the Mar Menor lagoon of the Mediterranean Sea, 36 kilometers southeast of the city center of Murcia .

Military (here landing approach of a CASA C-101 and civil operation with A319)

The new airport Aeropuerto Internacional de la Región de Murcia was planned for the civil aviation development of the Murcia - Cartagena region and was built until 2012, but will not open to air traffic until 2019. It is located 30 kilometers south of Murcia and also 30 kilometers north of Cartagena. The address is Avenida de España 101 30154 Valladolises y Lo Jurado, 30154 Murcia, Spain.

Todays use

The military airfield is a school base and home to the Ala 79 (span: wing, here: squadron) with three flying squadrons

  • Escuadrón 791 with the mandate of elementary training
  • Escuadrón 793 with the assignment of basic training
  • Escuadrón 794 , better known as the Patrulla Águila aerobatic team, which uses CASA C-101 jet propulsion aircraft .

The airfield has also been used for years as a training ground for approach and overflight exercises and for go-around maneuvers with the Eurofighter Typhoon, a type of aircraft that is not based in San Javier. The Academia General del Aire is also located on the premises.

Military CASA C-295M on taxiway en route to takeoff
CASA C 101 of Patrulla Águila practice flight over the airfield
Time to switch off the lights.
In January 2019, the last civil flight from Murcia-San Javier Airport to Manchester was operated by Ryanair
Murcia-San Javier Airport closed to civil air traffic since January 15, 2019
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Airport panorama with the 2350 m long runway in the foreground and the former civil airport in the middle next to it fire brigade, on the far right the military facilities at the airfield

Airlines and Destinations

Since 1995 Murcia-San Javier Airport has been used by eight different airlines, until civil aviation was closed, and they offered flights to 20 different destinations. The most important airlines were the Spanish Air Nostrum Iberia Regional as a regional partner of Iberia and the foreign companies Ryanair , easyJet , JetairFly (TUI) and Jet2.com ; Together with season-dependent tourist airlines and so-called low - cost airlines , these companies had a market share of 92 percent in passenger transport in 2017.

By mid-January 2019, the civil institutions and airlines moved to the international airport Región de Murcia International Airport , so that the international airport Murcia-San Javier will subsequently neither be used commercially nor operated under this name.

  • Spanish Air Nostrum Iberia Regional in San Javier with CRJ200

  • British easyJet in San Javier with Airbus A319

  • British Jet2.com in San Javier with Boeing 737-800

  • Belgian Jetairfly in San Javier with Boeing 737-800

  • Irish Ryanair in San Javier with Boeing 737-800

Previous traffic figures

Source: Aena
Traffic figures for the Aeropuerto de Murcia-San Javier 2000–2017
year Passenger volume Air freight ( tons ) Flight movements
2017 1,196,587 0.170 8,616
2016 1,097,048 0.040 8,273
2015 1,067,668 0.550 8,545
2014 1,095,471 0.382 9,081
2013 1,140,813 0.090 10,032
2012 1,181,782 0.175 11,579
2011 1,262,597 1.465 12,712
2010 1,349,579 2.584 13,477
2009 1,630,684 8,578 15,900
2008 1,876,255 2.730 19,339
2007 2,002,949 1.728 20,104
2006 1,646,129 6,921 18,141
2005 1,416,537 4.832 16,937
2004 848.427 19.101 12.003
2003 556.927 74,442 9,892
2002 313,311 7.678 15,108
2001 217,306 21,067 6,463
2000 156,542 48.759 5,677

Web links

Commons : Murcia – San Javier Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History. Aena.es , accessed January 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Introduction. Aena.es , accessed January 2, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Estadísticas de tráfico aéreo. Aena.es , accessed January 2, 2019 (Spanish).
  4. ↑ El aeropuerto de Corvera abrirá el 15 de enero con vuelos a doce destinos de tres países europeos. LaVerdad.es , November 23, 2018, accessed January 2, 2019 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ Airport destinations. Aena.es , accessed January 2, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b Estadísticas de tráfico aéreo. Aena.es , accessed January 2, 2019 (Spanish).