Murcia-San Javier Airport
Base Aérea de San Javier (formerly Aeropuerto de Murcia-San Javier) |
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Characteristics | |
ICAO code | LELC |
IATA code | MJV |
Coordinates | |
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 | |
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 |
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 .
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.
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.
Previous traffic figures
year | Passenger volume | Air freight ( tons ) | Flight movements |
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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
- Official website of the airport (German, English, Spanish)
- Official website of the operator (English, Spanish)
- Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
Individual evidence
- ^ History. Aena.es , accessed January 2, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Introduction. Aena.es , accessed January 2, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d e Estadísticas de tráfico aéreo. Aena.es , accessed January 2, 2019 (Spanish).
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ Airport destinations. Aena.es , accessed January 2, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Estadísticas de tráfico aéreo. Aena.es , accessed January 2, 2019 (Spanish).