General information
Alicante Airport (El Altet), is one of the sixth most busiests airports in Spain.
The car park covers an area of 124,500 m2 for a total of 4140 seats of vehicles.
The New Terminal of Alicante's Airport Area have replaced the older terminals 1 and 2.
It's easy to see why Alicante has become such a desirable tourist destination.
Welcome to Alicante International Airport! This site will help you to be informed about all kind of information regarding to Alicante Airport services and tourist information that you should know.
Alicante Airport (airport code ALC) is currently the sixth largest airport in Spain and is the gateway to the Costa Blanca resort region. Growing in size continuously over the past years, in March 2011 Alicante airport got a brand new terminal building, replacing the old two terminals.
Also, the national destinations are very popular, like Madrid, Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca.
Alicante airport ranks sixth in the Spanish airport network due to affluent passengers, behind Madrid, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Malaga and Gran Canaria, ranking among the 50 busiest airports in Europe.
Alicante airport is situated 9 kilometres southwest of the capital, in the municipality of Elche.
In 2010, Alicante Airport handled 9,5 millions passengers, 75,000 flight operations.
Most of these passengers are from the United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands.
Tourism is reflected in the percentage of international flights that this airport handles (80% of the total).