Málaga Airport
International airport serving Costa del Sol, Malaga, Spain / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Málaga Airport (IATA: AGP, ICAO: LEMG), officially Málaga–Costa del Sol Airport[5] (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Málaga-Costa del Sol) since June 2011,[6][7] is the fourth busiest airport in Spain[3] after Madrid–Barajas, Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca. It is significant for Spanish tourism as the main international airport serving the Costa del Sol. It is 8 km (5.0 mi) southwest[8] of Málaga and 5 km (3.1 mi) north of Torremolinos. The airport has flight connections to over 60 countries worldwide, and over 14.4 million passengers passed through it in 2015.[3] In 2017, 18.6 million passengers passed through Málaga Airport.
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Málaga Airport Aeropuerto de Málaga–Costa del Sol | |||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Owner/Operator | Aena | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Málaga and the Costa del Sol | ||||||||||||||
Location | Churriana, Málaga, Andalusia, Spain | ||||||||||||||
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Elevation AMSL | 16 m / 52 ft | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 36°40′30″N 004°29′57″W | ||||||||||||||
Website | aena.es | ||||||||||||||
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The airport operates with three terminals. The third terminal adjacent to the previous two opened on 15 March 2010, with flight operations commencing the following day. A second runway opened on 26 June 2012.[9]
Málaga Airport is the busiest international airport of Andalusia, accounting for 80 per cent of the autonomous community's non-domestic traffic. It offers a wide variety of international destinations. The airport, connected to the Costa del Sol, has a daily link with twenty cities in Spain and over one hundred cities in Europe. Direct flights also operate to Africa, the Middle East and also to North America. Airlines with a base at the airport are Air Europa, Norwegian, Scandinavian Airlines, Ryanair, Vueling and Easyjet which operates a seasonal base.