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Alicante Airport
Airport Directory » Spain » Alicante » Alicante AirportAlicante International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de Alicante), (IATA: ALC, ICAO: LEAL), originally named El Altet, is the independent airport for the district of Alicante and the district of Murcia in Spain. It is turn up within the municipality of Elche, its installations lying merely nine kilometre southwestward of Alicante.
El Altet opened on four May 1967, replacing the older airport La Rabassa that had assisted Alicante since 1936. It took its name after the El Altet area (a division of Elche's countryside) where it was made. The 1st commercial voyage that district in the airport was Convair Metropolitan by Aviaco. Iberia constituted a regular connexions Alicante-Madrid and Alicante-Barcelona since November 1969. In early 1970s riders' traffic attained 1 million, which moved a building of a new rider depot. In after 1970s the landing track was continued to 3 kilometres.
In 2007, Ryanair, the biggest European low cost air hose constituted a ground at the airport.
In 2008, the airport dealt 9,578,308 riders, surviving the 6th busiest airport by rider figure in Spain, and 1 of the 50 busiest in Europe. The largest figure of riders is transported by EasyJet (1,564,611 riders in 2008), closely come after by Ryanair (1,415,284). Air Berlin (752.259) is the distant 3rd.
There are 2 depots at the airport, turn up 1 adjacent to the other. A new depot is under building and is due to be complete in 2009. A building of an AVE high-speed railway line depot within the airport is under consideration.
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