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Ibiza Airport
Airport Directory » Spain » Ibiza » Ibiza AirportIbiza Airport (IATA: IBZ, ICAO: LEIB) is the airport assisting the Balearic islands of Ibiza and Formentera, used by 95% of all individuals who arrive at or go away from these 2 islands.
The airport traffic is qualified by the seasonal nature of the tourist industry, and as such it deals over 85% of the aggregative volume of riders during the 6 calendar month of the high season (May-October). The airport also offers year-around scheduled inter-island and mainland traffic, with voyages functioning to primary business hubs, such as Barcelona, Madrid and Palma de Mallorca.
History
The airport was 1st constituted as a impermanent armed forces airport during the Spanish Civil War, and stay open after the battle for use as an emergency airport.
In 1949 the location was used to function some domestic and international tourist voyages, but was then closed in 1951.
It was not until 1958 that work set about to re-open the airport in chemical reaction to the rapid development of the tourist market place in the Balearic Islands, especially in neighbor Majorca. The airport was reopened on one April 1958 with the 1st destinations during that yr including Ibiza, Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona, Valencia and Madrid.
The airport was spread out more and more over the subsequent decenniums with landing track, taxi strip, apron and depot sweetenings projected to cope with the turning air tourist market place which by the late 1990s was bringing forth over 3.5 million riders a yr at the airport.
In 2008 the airport dealt 4,647,487 riders and 57,235 aircraft motilities, a respective 2.5% and 1.1% worsen compared to 2007.
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