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Girona-Costa Brava Airport Aeroport de Girona | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea (AENA) | ||||||||||
| Location | Girona, Catalonia | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 465.8 ft / 142 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°54′00″N 2°46′00″E / 41.90000°N 2.76667°E | ||||||||||
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Girona-Costa Brava Airport (IATA: GRO, ICAO: LEGE) is an airport located 12km south from the city of Girona, next to the small village of Vilobí d'Onyar, in the north-east of Catalonia, Spain. It is well connected to the Costa Brava, Barcelona and the Pyrenees.
The airport was built in 1965,[citation needed] but passenger traffic was modest.[citation needed] The early 2000s saw passenger numbers grow spectacularly after Ryanair chose Girona as one of its European hubs.[citation needed] In 1993 Girona Airport only dealt with 275,000 passengers[citation needed] but by 2007 that number had escalated to more than 4.8 million passengers.[citation needed]
Many people use Girona Airport as an alternative airport for Barcelona, though it is 92 km (57.5 miles) [1] to the north of Barcelona. Passengers can transfer to Barcelona via bus, taxi or train.
Statistics
Passenger numbers 1997 to 2007:
| Year | Passengers |
|---|---|
| 1997 | 533,445 |
| 1998 | 610,607 |
| 1999 | 631,235 |
| 2000 | 651,402 |
| 2001 | 622,410 |
| 2002 | 557,187 |
| 2003 | 1,448,796 |
| 2004 | 2,962,988 |
| 2005 | 3,533,567 |
| 2006 | 3,614,223 |
| 2007 | 4,848,619 |
To and around the airport
From Girona Airport you can easily reach the resorts along the Costa Brava, places such as Lloret de Mar, l'Estartit, Blanes. You are also only about a 40 minute drive from the French border and many people use Girona Airport as a way of getting to the Pyrenees and the Ski Resort of Andorra.
By car
The airport is served by three main roads:
- E-15/AP-7 toll road (Perpignan, France - south of Spain)
- C-25 (Lleida - Girona)
- N-II, no-toll road (Madrid - Barcelona - Perpignan, France)
By bus
There are 4 bus lines operating in the airport:
- Airport-Barcelona (1 hour 10 minutes, departure times depending on flights (on Sunday the last bus leaves Barcelona at 7.15pm))
- Airport-Costa Brava/Maresme (Stops at Tossa de Mar, Lloret de Mar, Blanes, Malgrat de Mar, Santa Susanna, Pineda de Mar and Calella de la Costa),
- Airport-North Costa Brava (Stops at Figueres, Roses, Pineda de Mar, Calella de la Costa and Tossa de Mar)
- Airport-Girona (25 minutes, one every hour).
- Airport - Perpignan in France. Frogbus. 6 times daily. Stops at Le Boulou.
By train
There is no train station at the airport. The closest one is in Girona city. There is a project to build a station for the future AVE line Barcelona-France (Spanish TGV).
Airliner crash, 1999
On 14 September 1999, at 21:47 UTC, a Boeing 757-204 charter flight from Cardiff, Wales, UK, with 236 passengers and 9 crew left the runway when landing in a storm and broke apart. After leaving the runway, it ran 343 meters across flat grassland beside the runway, before going diagonally over a substantial earth mound adjacent to the airport boundary, becoming semi-airborne as a result. Beyond the mound it hit and severed a number of medium sized trees and the right engine struck the boundary fence. The aircraft then yawed considerably to the right, passed through the fence, re-landed in a field and both main landing gears collapsed. It finally stopped after a 244 meter slide across the field. Damage was substantial: the fuselage was broken in two places and the landing gear and both engines detached. Remarkably, there were no immediate fatalities but 44 people, including the aircraft commander, received hospital treatment for severe to minor injuries.[2] [3]
Airlines and destinations
- Jetairfly (Brussels) [seasonal]
- Ryanair (Aarhus, Alghero, Altenburg, Basel, Billund, Birmingham, Blackpool, Bologna-Forli, Bournemouth, Bratislava, Bremen, Bristol, Brno, Brussels-Charleroi, Cagliari, Doncaster/Sheffield, Dublin, Durham Tees Valley, East Midlands, Eindhoven, Fez, Frankfurt-Hahn, Fuerteventura, Glasgow-Prestwick, Gothenburg-City, Granada, Graz, Hamburg-Lübeck, Ibiza [begins 4 November], Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Leeds/Bradford [begins 1 October], Linz, Liverpool, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Maastricht, Madrid, Malta, Manchester, Marrakech, Milan-Bergamo, Newcastle, Newquay, Oslo-Torp, Palma de Mallorca [begins 19 December], Paris-Beauvais, Pescara, Pisa, Porto, Poznań, Rome-Ciampino, Shannon, Stockholm-Skavsta, Tenerife-South, Trapani, Turin [begins 28 October], Venice-Treviso, Weeze, Wrocław)
- Smart Wings (Brno, Ostrava, Prague)
- Spanair (Madrid, Ibiza [seasonal], Mahon [seasonal], Palma de Mallorca [seasonal])
- Thomas Cook Airlines (Belfast-International, Birmingham, Manchester) [seasonal]
- Thomsonfly (Birmingham, Cardiff, London-Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle) [seasonal]
- transavia.com (Amsterdam, Paris-Orly, Rotterdam)
- Wizz Air (Budapest[seasonal], Gdańsk[seasonal], Katowice, Sofia [begins 15 September])
External links
- Template:WAD
- Girona Airport official website (Aena)
- Free online Guide about Girona airport
- AENA Website about Spanish airports
- Girona Airport Transport
- Maps and transports Airport Costa Brava
- Frogbus Girona airport to Perpignan online booking
- Girona airport shuttles and transfers
Notes and references
- ^ ViaMichelin : Itinéraire, Route, Plan, Carte de France, Plan de Ville, Carte Europe
- ^ "Special Bulletin S1/2000 - Boeing 757-204, G-BYAG" (PDF). Air Accidents Investigation Branch. 2000.
- ^ "BBC report of air crash". BBC. 1999.