Burgos Airport

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The Burgos Airport is a Spanish airport four kilometers northeast of the city of Burgos.

History

The airport is originally from the first half of the 20th century, originated as an airfield near the city of Burgos and was used by recreational pilots. In the following years, there have always been expansion measures. During the Spanish Civil War Burgos was in the headquarters of the National and the place underwent a military use. As a bomber used Junkers Ju 52/3m Kampfgruppe 88 ( K/88 ) of the German Condor Legion during an air raid on Guernica started, among others, in Burgos.

1949, the airfield was taken over by the Spanish Air Force, which also considerably goal for the airport and advanced. In the 1990s, however, the base was faced with the resolution, and was negotiated over a conversion to a civilian airport. In 2000 this was a done deal and had adapted after the platforms, built for flight operations systems and building a passenger terminal, handed it to the airport on 3 July 2008 the airport of civil aviation. The operator is the State AENA.

2010 33.595 passengers were handled at the airport, performed 3,559 aircraft movements and 1.7 tons of cargo handled.

At the airport has scheduled services only the Iberia subsidiary Air Nostrum with flights to Madrid active. Occasionally charter flights to various destinations are handled at the airport. So one could see for example Trawelfly at Burgos Airport.

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