Federico GarcÃa Lorca Airport
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The Granada-Jaén Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Federico García Lorca Granada - Jaén, short Aeropuerto FGL ) is a commercial airport in the province of Granada ( Spain ) in the south of the Iberian Peninsula. It is located in the region of Andalusia about 18 km west of the city of Granada and about 100 km south of Jaén.
History
The site of today's airport Granada has only existed since the early 1970s. However, flying in the province of Granada to the year 1895 in the field in the southwest suburb of Granada liegenendem Armilla took place first balloon rides. During the " Feria del Corpus de Granada " 1911 was a first flight festival organized which was repeated interruption in the time of the First World War, several times in the following years.
The 1921 riots erupted shortly thereafter in Spanish Morocco in 1922 led to the official opening of a military airfield on the grounds of flight festival that in 1925 the name Aeródromo Dávila received, after a verunglücktem this year pilots. After the end of the uprising, the airfield became a civil airport, the first connection in 1929 was to Seville. After only one year of existence, the line was already set back and the place was henceforth, even during the Civil War, again used for military purposes.
A second time the civil flight operations in 1946 and was included with the increase in passenger numbers through the emergence of tourism infrastructure in the 1950s, has been extended. However, these was no fixed start and runway.
The emergence in the 1960s Jetflugverkehr led to the consideration of the construction of a new airport between the villages Chauchina and Santa Fe, which was opened after two years of construction in 1972 and since then handles civilian air traffic. The old location is the military, which still uses the site as a Base Aérea de Armilla, especially as a helipad of the Ala 78 ( 78th Squadron ) remained.
In advance of the Alpine World Skiing Championships in 1996 in the Sierra Nevada of today's airport has been modernized and extended and on 13 June 2006, he was named Federico García Lorca Granada - Jaén, in memory of Federico García Lorca.
Importance
In the passenger statistics for all Spanish airports 1.42 million passengers are listed for the Granada - Jaén Airport. In the ranking of the airport of Andalusia it is thus to Malaga and Sevilla in third place ahead of Jerez.