ALC CREW ROOMS

Crew rooms at Alicante Airport

The new Alicante Airport opened in 1967 to national and international passenger and cargo traffic.

The first aeroplane, an Aviaco Convair Metropolitan, landed that same day. Iberia joined the airport traffic in November, 1969 with Alicante-Madrid and Alicante-Barcelona routes.

It was great news for tourists who began to fly to Alicante instead of Valencia as they could access the Alicante Coastline more easily. It took just a few short years before reaching almost a million passengers and along came plans to build a new passenger terminal, which initially was purely used for international flights until a second phase was completed. This opened up the terminal to national traffic in 1975.

In 1978 passenger numbers grew to two million passengers and so the decision was made to improve the passenger terminal, extend aircraft parking by 60,000 square metres and extend the runway was by 3,000 metres.

In 1996 an extensive refurbishment was undertaken in order to be able attend in a short time the nine million passengers using these facilities each year Five airbridges were installed for boarding and a new office building for airline companies was built, as well as an operations centre and a business centre. Car parking capacity was also increased, a new exit was built at header 28 and the plane apron was extended.

In March 2011, the New Terminal Area was opened, capable of handling nearly 6,000 passengers per hour and 20 million passengers per year; it includes a new terminal building, a boarding dock, a car park building, new access roads, and an extended aircraft parking apron and taxiway.