La Palma Airport
| La Palma Airport | |||||||||||
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| IATA: SPC – ICAO: GCLA | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea | ||||||||||
| Operator | Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea | ||||||||||
| Serves | La Palma | ||||||||||
| Location | Breña Baja and Villa de Mazo | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 33 m / 108 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 28°37′35″N 017°45′20″W / 28.62639°N 17.75556°WCoordinates: 28°37′35″N 017°45′20″W / 28.62639°N 17.75556°W | ||||||||||
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  SPC Location of airport in Canary Islands | |||||||||||
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| Statistics (2015) | |||||||||||
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La Palma Airport (IATA: SPC, ICAO: GCLA) is an airport located in Breña Baja and Villa de Mazo, 8 km (5.0 mi) south of the city of Santa Cruz de La Palma on La Palma in the Canary Islands.[1] It is operated by Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea (AENA), who operate the vast majority of civil airports in Spain.
The airport is served mainly by Binter Canarias and CanaryFly with island-hopping flights from Tenerife and Gran Canaria. In 2015, the airport had 971,676 passengers in the 15,800 operations handled. Cargo traffic totalled 565 tonnes.[3]
New terminal
A new terminal building opened in July 2011, giving the airport an ultimate capacity of 3 million passengers per year. The new terminal has 25 check-in desks, 4 baggage carousels, and 9 boarding gates. The new terminal is farther back than the old terminal, meaning that apron space is maximised. There are still no plans to build a taxiway parallel to the runway, so aircraft still have to backtaxi on the runway, limiting capacity to 10 operations per hour. The airport also has a new control tower.[4]
Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Air Berlin | Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf Seasonal: Zürich[5] |
| Binter Canarias & NAYSA | Gran Canaria, Tenerife–North |
| Condor | Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart |
| CanaryFly | Tenerife–North |
| easyJet | Berlin-Schönefeld,[6] London-Gatwick[6] |
| Enter Air | Charter: Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
| Germania | Hamburg |
| Germania Flug | Zürich |
| Iberia Express | Madrid |
| Primera Air | Charter: Billund,[7] Copenhagen,[7] Gothenburg, Helsinki (begins 22 December 2016),[8] Oslo-Gardermoen (begins 29 November 2016),[9] Reykjavik (begins 1 January 2017), Stockholm |
| Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium | Brussels |
| Thomson Airways | London-Gatwick, Manchester |
| Travel Service | Charter: Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Lyon, Nantes |
| Transavia | Amsterdam |
| TUI Airlines Netherlands | Amsterdam |
| TUIfly Belgium | Brussels |
| Vueling | Barcelona, Bilbao |
References
- 1 2 EAD Basic
- ↑ AENA Statistics
- ↑ "La Palma Airport: Introduction". AENA. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
- ↑ Some infrastructural data are from an old AENA website page that is no longer available. General airport information from AENA as of 2015 is here: La Palma Airport SPC 2015
- ↑ http://abouttravel.ch/reisebranche/tos-und-retailer/mehr-kanaren-und-zypern-bei-hotelplan/
- 1 2 http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/267700/easyjet-plans-new-routes-in-16q4/
- 1 2 http://airlineroute.net/2016/04/25/wf-jun16/
- ↑ http://www.lomamatkat.fi/kohteet/espanja/la-palma/puerto-naos/
- ↑ https://avinor.no/flyplass/oslo/#airport=SPC&active=cha
External links
- La Palma Airport Official Website - (English)
- La Palma Airport Official Website - (Spanish)