Jerez Airport

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Jerez de la Frontera (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Jerez ) Airport is an international airport in the province of Cádiz ( Spain) in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. It is located about 10 km northeast of Jerez de la Frontera in Andalusia. Distance to Seville is about 90 km; to Cadiz 50 km.

History

The airport was created in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. A portion of the troops stationed in Spanish Morocco Franco was flown south of the city at that time not so designated Condor Legion to Spain in 1936 with a so provisionally applied by the airfield. For testing purposes, were stationed at this place in the fall of 1936 a small number of new German aircraft types. In the further course of the war was initially a Aeródromo Haya designated airfield as a training ground and only after 1946 there was a civil joint use.

The air forces were talking here in the 1950s, a flight school for training mehrmotorger aircraft, in these years, the airport has also been strengthened.

He will also fly internationally since 1968.

The military base was La Parra 1962 home of the Grupo 22, equipped with the 601 Marine squadron (601 Escuadrón de Cooperación Aeronaval ), the group was founded in 1972 in 22 Squadron (Ala 22) renamed. It was equipped with HU -16 to 1978 - flying-boats (Spanish name AD.1 ). There were initially three from July 1973 and 1978, four more, the latter had been leased by the U.S. Navy, P -3A maritime patrol aircraft. Ten years later, the Group acquired an additional five cars with P -3B from Norway to replace the four leased U.S. Navy copies. The group moved in 1992 to the nearby town of Moron. The use of the Aeropuerto de La Parra as a military airfield ended in 1993 and the airport was given its present name.

Airlines and destinations

Inner Spanish Iberia flies several times a day to Madrid, Vueling to Barcelona and Air Berlin to Palma. All three airlines fly to the airport all year round.

In seasonal traffic with Germany Condor, German Wings, TUIfly and Ryanair fly to the airport by the end of February to early November.

Importance

In 15 years, the number of passengers from 300,000 in 1993, about 800,000 to 1.3 million in 2008, more than quadrupled in 2000. In the ranking of the airport of Andalusia it is thus to Malaga, Seville and Granada - Jaén in fourth place ahead of Almeria and Cordoba.

The relatively high number of flight movements in relation to the passengers is due to the numerous resident flight schools.

Transport links

The airport can be reached via the national road N- IV and the highways AP -4 and A-4. Bus lines M -051, M -052 and M -053 connect the airport to Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz. Since September 2011, the airport has a railway station and is open daily from eight pairs of trains of regional transport Sevilla - Cádiz ( line MD 65 ), and - at long intervals - the S-Bahn Cádiz ( line C- 1) served (as of 2013).

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