Lanzarote Airport
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Arrecife Airport is a Spanish airport on the island of Lanzarote. He is on the list of airports in Spain tenth (end of 2008) and is followed by the airports of Gran Canaria and Tenerife South is the third largest of the Canary Islands. The airport is used as Aeródromo Militar de Lanzarote by the Spanish Air Force.
Airlines and destinations
The part belonging to Arrecife Airport ( IATA code ACE) is served by several German airports directly in about four and a half hour flight and operated by Spanish airlines. The charter also several English companies fly to Lanzarote. The majority of the passengers from Europe flying from the UK, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands.
History
In 1936 started the construction of a Behelfsflughafens. In the summer of 1940 was built five kilometers west of Arrecife, on the Costa de Guacimeta in the municipality of San Bartolomé, a military airfield for the defense of the islands by the Spanish Air Force. 1946 this was provisionally approved for civil aviation in 1947 and officially opened after some renovations for domestic flights. After various development works and construction of a apron in the 1950s, the airport in 1965 received a 1,850 meters long and 45 meters wide, paved landing and runway with temporary lighting.
In 1969, the airport was extensively expanded with terminals, aprons, energy, and wireless technology, on March 3, 1970, he was released for the international civilian passenger traffic. Due to ever-increasing passenger numbers by the rising tourism significant improvements in the technology and enlargements of various plants could be made again and again. 1999, a 42,000 -square-foot, two-story terminal with 42 check-in counters and the first time was opened with closed passenger boarding bridges for a volume of six million passengers per year. There was also a new control tower and various infrastructure. The now "old" terminal from the year 1969 since then, used as Terminal 2 for flights within the Canary Islands, as well as for private and business flights.
Since 2006 is the first airport building from the year 1938, the Aeronautical Museum, an airport museum on the history of civil and military aviation on the island.
Statistics
Approach
- Bus: lines 22 and 23 run to the bus station from Arrecife, line 23 also to Playa Honda and Playa Blanca 161.