Alicante Airport
Alicante Airport El Altet in Spain. Alicante Airport – Aeropuerto de Alicante-Elche in located in Elche, 11 km southwest of Alicante. The airport is also called El Altet by the El Altet in Elx. Here, 80% of the traffic is international. El Altet has undergone a major expansion from 2005 to 2011. After rebuilding Alicante Airport has become one of Spain’s most modern airports with a capacity of 20 million passengers.
The airport in Alicante is one of the 50 busiest in Europe, serving approximately 9 million passengers per year. The important role of tourism is reflected in the share of international passenger this airport handles, which represents approximately eighty percent of the total. Most of these passengers are from Britain, Germany, Norway and the Netherlands. Scheduled domestic traffic has also increased in recent years. Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca and Madrid are the three most popular destinations. In 2015 handled Alicante Airport 10,574,484 passengers, 74,084 flights and 3,587 tons of cargo.
Facts about Alicante Airport
El Altet Airport on the Costa Blanca coast is the 6th busiest airport in Spain, and among the 50 busiest in Europe. The new airport was opened on 23 March 2011. The airport currently has a passenger mass at 9 million a year, but has a capacity of 20 million. Current terminal is 333,500 square meters. This new terminal building is on six floors together, with a new parking area on six floors and a total area of 122,500 square meters. Parking capacity is doubled from 2000 to 4200 parking spaces and virtually all P-spots are covered. The bus parking capacity is doubled from 31 to 60 buses. Number of check-in counters has been increased from 42 to 96 and outputs (gates) to the planes has doubled from 12 to 26 outputs.
Alicante Airport shopping
The terminal building at the airport in Alicante can offer a very large area of shops, restaurants and bars to suit your needs. Separated in the public area and departure area (having gotten past security check) you will find a huge amount of shops and boutiques. Especially when you need to “kill some time” and wait for your flight to leave you will find more than 50 shops, bars and restaurants ideal.
There is a good selection of shops at Alicante Airport. The duty-free shops and Spanish brands including Desigual, in addition to pharmacies, delicatessens and souvenir shops. Alicante has several bars, cafés and restaurants, so there’s no reason to start flight on an empty stomach. Here you can enjoy anything from a cold drink, a quick burger to delicious Spanish tapas. There is everything from simple kiosks with fast food to real restaurants with seating. Read more about shopping and shops Alicante Airport
Transportation to and from Alicante airport
Taxi Alicante Airport
Outside the Arrivals Hall it easy to find a taxi, and a trip into Alicante center costs approximately 20 Euro. It is also possible to book and pay a taxi in advance at Radio Taxi Elche’s website. If you book and pay in advance, you get taxi ride even cheaper.
Car hire Alicante Airport
Need car hire in Alicante, it is easiest to order it for pickup when you land at the airport in Alicante. Then you can easily return it when traveling back to their home country, and you do not alternate transportation to and from Alicante Airport. In most cases, this is less expensive than using small local suppliers in Alicante province. Read more about car hire in Alicante Airport
Bus Alicante Airport
There are several bus companies that run between Alicante Airport and the city center. The cheapest way to get into the center is by bus C-6. Buses depart every 45 minutes and the trip takes about 40 min. Alicante airport has a so-called “Airport – to – Alicante City ‘bus line. The bus is labeled in Spanish “Centro Ciudad <> Aeropuerto” and go several times during the day. Line C-6, Bus stop outside the departure area of the Alicante airport and is cheap – only 2.70 Euros to the center. Check timetables
Local Buses
The bus stop for local buses (from Alsa, Subus, Costa Azul – Quickair, Baile) to Alicante, Benidorm, Denia, Santa Pola, Torrevieja, Murcia and Elche located at the very end of the terminal building on the departure level.
Again, to make this very clear: Local buses to Alicante, Benidorm, Torrevieja, Denia, Murcia, Santa Pola and Elche stop just outside the departure area (level 2). These bus services do not stop at the lower “bus” level of the airport.
To get to the bus stop for local buses do the following:
Upon arrival by air coming out of the arrivals hall and is on (level 0), go then straight on to the elevators and take the elevator up to the departures level. On departure level 2 stroll to the end of the departure area and exit the terminal building. There you will find all bus stops on local buses to Alicante, Benidorm, Torrevieja etc right outside the departure area
Charter, shuttle bus and tour buses
Available downstairs at Alicante Airport, Level -2.
– Marianne Tours
– Shuttle Direct
– Resorthoppa
– Beni Connect
– Holiday Taxis
– Best Resort Care
– Travel Republic
– A2B
– Jumbo Transfers
– Jet2
Train
Take the bus C-6 to the train station in central Alicante, then train from there. This railway line connecting the center of Alicante with cities along the Costa Blanca such as El Campello, La Vila Joiosa, Benidorm, L’Alfas del Pi and Altea.
Info Alicante Airport
Contact Alicante Airport
Telephone: 0034-96 691 9000
Website: Alicante Airport
Distance center of Alicante 12 km
Map Alicante Airport
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