Girona–Costa Brava Airport

Girona–Costa Brava Airport
Aeroport de Girona-Costa Brava
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner ENAIRE
Operator Aena
Serves Girona, the Costa Brava
and Barcelona, Spain
Elevation AMSL 143 m / 469 ft
Coordinates 41°54′03″N 002°45′38″E / 41.90083°N 2.76056°E / 41.90083; 2.76056Coordinates: 41°54′03″N 002°45′38″E / 41.90083°N 2.76056°E / 41.90083; 2.76056
Website aena-aeropuertos.es
Map
GRO
Location within Catalonia
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
02/20 2,400 7,874 Asphalt
Statistics (2017)
Passengers 1.946.216
Passenger change 16–17 Increase 16,9%
Aircraft Movements 19.252
Source: AENA[1]

Girona–Costa Brava Airport (IATA: GRO, ICAO: LEGE) (Catalan: Aeroport de Girona-Costa Brava, Spanish: Aeropuerto de Gerona-Costa Brava) is an airport located 12.5 km (7.8 mi) southwest[2] of the city of Girona, next to the small village of Vilobí d'Onyar, in the north-east of Catalonia, Spain. The airport is well connected to the Costa Brava and the Pyrenees. Girona Airport is used as an alternative airport for Barcelona as well, even though the airport is 74 km (46 mi)[3] north of center of Barcelona.

History

The airport was built in 1965,[4] but passenger traffic was modest.

The early 2000s saw passenger numbers grow spectacularly after Ryanair chose Girona as one of its European hubs. In 1993, Girona Airport dealt with only 275,000 passengers; in the six years from 2002 to 2008 passenger numbers increased by nearly ten times from just over 500,000 to more than 5.5 million, but half of these were lost again in the next 4 years until 2012 with only 2.8 million passengers.[5] 2014 saw less than 2.2 million passengers pass through the airport. In 2016 it carried just 1.6 million passengers.

Facilities

The airport consists of one two-storey passenger terminal building. On the ground floor there are 33 check-in desks, with 11 boarding gates on the first floor for both domestic and international flights.[6] Food is available in the departures area of the airport, as well as a few shops.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Girona:[7] Other information also found on the Aena application[8]

AirlinesDestinations
Adria Airways Seasonal charter: Ljubljana, Innsbruck, Graz, Salzburg
airBaltic Seasonal charter: Linköping, Jönköping
Air Malta Seasonal charter: Malta
Aviolet Seasonal charter: Belgrade
BH Air Seasonal charter: Sofia
BRA Braathens Regional Airlines Seasonal charter: Göteborg, Malmö, Stockholm–Bromma
Brussels Airlines Seasonal: Brussels
Corendon Dutch Airlines Seasonal charter: Amsterdam
Enter Air Seasonal charter: Warsaw, Gdańsk, Katowice
Jet2.com Seasonal: Belfast–International, Birmingham, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Laudamotion Seasonal: Berlin
Luxair Seasonal charter: Luxembourg
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal charter: London-Stansted
Pobeda Moscow–Vnukovo
Seasonal: Saint Petersburg
Ryanair Bratislava, Cagliari, Eindhoven, Hahn, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Kraków, Oradea, Pisa, Rabat
Seasonal: Paris, Belfast–International, Billund, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bremen, Brindisi, Bristol, Brussels, Cork, Dortmund, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Kaunas, Knock, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Maastricht/Aachen, Malta, Manchester, Memmingen, Newcastle, Perugia, Pescara, Poznań, Prestwick, Riga, Tallinn, Thessaloniki, Weeze, Wrocław
Small Planet Airlines Seasonal: Katowice[9]
Seasonal charter: Warsaw-Chopin
SmartWings Seasonal: Prague, Warsaw, Katowice
Thomas Cook Airlines Seasonal: Birmingham,[10] Bristol,[11] Manchester[12][13]
Transavia Seasonal: Amsterdam, Rotterdam
TUI Airways Seasonal: Birmingham, Bristol, London–Gatwick, Manchester
TUI fly Belgium Seasonal: Brussels

Statistics

Girona Airport Passenger Totals 2000-2017 (millions)
Updated: 08 March 2018.[5] 2017 data provisional.
Check-in area
Apron view
Control tower

The following table shows total passenger numbers at Girona Airport from 1997 to date.

YearPassengers
1997533,445
1998610,607
1999631,235
2000651,402
2001622,410
2002557,187
20031,448,796
20042,962,988
20053,533,567
20063,614,223
20074,848,604
20085,507,294
20095,286,970
20104,863,785
20113,007,649
20122,844,571
20132,736,867
20142.160.646
20151.775.318
20161.664.763
20171.946.816
Source: Aena Statistics[5]

Ground transportation

Alongside being an alternative option to Barcelona Airport, Girona Airport is convenient for the resorts along the Costa Brava, such as Lloret de Mar, l'Estartit and Blanes. It is 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 resorts of Andorra.

By car

The airport is served by three main roads:

By bus

There are 6 bus lines operating in the airport to:

By train

The closest main line railway station to the airport is in Girona. The closest railway station is in fact Riudellots Halt, 4 km (2.5 mi) away from the airport.[14] There is a project to build a station for the AVE line LGV Perpignan–Figueres.

Incidents and accidents

  • 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 metres (1,125 ft) 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, landed again in a field, and its main landing gears collapsed. It finally stopped after a 244-metre (800 ft) 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's captain, received hospital treatment for severe to minor injuries. One elderly passenger died a week later.[15][16]

References

  1. ↑ Informes Anuales – 2012 "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 January 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2017. – AENA
  2. ↑ Spanish AIP (AENA) Archived 7 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Distanse from Girona–Costa Brava Airport to Sagrada Família in center of Barcelona - Google Maps
  4. ↑ "AENA Girona-Costa Brava Historia". Retrieved 9 January 2014.
  5. 1 2 3 AENA passenger statistics and aircraft movements
  6. ↑ Girona Airport
  7. ↑ aena.es - Destinos retrieved 21 May 2017
  8. ↑ Android, iOS (iPhone)
  9. ↑ "P7 schedule Katowice - Girona".
  10. ↑ https://www.thomascookairlines.com/en/book-plan/flight/timetable/timetable-result.jsp?dd=20180504&rd=20180521&o=GRO&d=BHX&action=search&flightMode=RT
  11. ↑ https://www.thomascookairlines.com/en/book-plan/flight/timetable/timetable-result.jsp?dd=20180504&rd=20180521&o=GRO&d=BRS&action=search&flightMode=RT
  12. ↑ https://www.thomascookairlines.com/en/book-plan/flight/timetable/timetable-result.jsp?dd=20180504&rd=20180521&o=GRO&d=MAN&action=search&flightMode=RT
  13. ↑ https://www.thomascookairlines.com/en/book-plan/flight/timetable.jsp
  14. ↑ 3 PM Barcelona to Cerbere train schedule
  15. ↑ "Special Bulletin S1/2000 – Boeing 757–204, G-BYAG" (PDF). Air Accidents Investigation Branch. 2000. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 October 2006.
  16. ↑ "BBC report of air crash". BBC. 1999-09-16.

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