Granada Airport

Granada Airport is situated in the area known as "Vega del Genil" or plains of the River Genil 16km west of the city. The Airport mainly handles national flights to Madrid and Barcelona but now also a daily international flight to London Stanstead.

The terminal building was opened in 1972. The airport has a single runway, 2,900m long by 45 metres wide named 09 - 27 and an apron with twenty-five aircraft stands, of which eleven are for commercial planes. In 2004 Granada handled a total of 590,940 passengers.

The first recorded flight at the Santa Fe location was in 1911 to celebrate Corpus Cristi. In 1922 the town hall donated the land for the construction of a permanent facility which was opened in 1925 and named Aeródromo Dávila in memory of Luis Dávila Ponce de León. The first regular scheduled service was to Seville.

« back