Ibiza Airport

Ibiza Airport
Aeroport d'Eivissa
Aeropuerto de Ibiza
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner ENAIRE
Operator Aena
Serves Ibiza
Location Ibiza, Spain
Elevation AMSL 24 ft / 7 m
Coordinates 38°52′22″N 01°22′33″E / 38.87278°N 1.37583°E / 38.87278; 1.37583Coordinates: 38°52′22″N 01°22′33″E / 38.87278°N 1.37583°E / 38.87278; 1.37583
Website aena.es
Map
IBZ
Location within Ibiza
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
06/24 9,186 2,800 Asphalt / Concrete
Statistics (2017)
Passengers 7,903,892
Passenger change 16-17 Increase6.56%
Aircraft Movements 75,691
Movements change 16-17 Increase4.40%
Source: AENA[1][2]
Control Tower of the airport
exterior at night

Ibiza Airport (IATA: IBZ, ICAO: LEIB) (Catalan: Aeroport d'Eivissa, Spanish: Aeropuerto de Ibiza) is the international airport serving the Balearic Islands of Ibiza and Formentera in Spain located 7 km (4.3 mi) southwest of Ibiza Town.[2] As the island is a major European holiday destination, it features some year-round domestic services as well as several dozen seasonal routes to cities across Europe. It is also used as a seasonal hub by Vueling.

History

1940–1989

The airport was first established as a temporary military airport during the Spanish Civil War, and remained open after the conflict for use as an emergency airport. In 1949 the site was used to operate some domestic and international tourist flights, but was then closed in 1951.

It was not until 1958 that work commenced to re-open the airport in reaction to the rapid development of the tourist market in the Balearic Islands, particularly in neighbouring Majorca. The airport was reopened on 1 April 1958 with the first destinations during that year including Palma, Barcelona, Valencia and Madrid.

1990 to date

The airport was expanded progressively over the subsequent decades with runway, taxiway, apron and terminal enhancements designed to cope with the growing air tourist market which by the late 1990s was generating over 3.6 million passengers a year at the airport.

In 2011 the airport provisionally handled over 5.6 million passengers and around 61,000 aircraft movements, an increase of 11.9% and 8.4% respectively compared with 2010.[1]

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Seasonal: Athens (begins 23 June 2019)
Air Europa Madrid, Palma de Mallorca
Seasonal charter: Milan-Malpensa
Air France Seasonal: Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse
AlbaStar Seasonal charter: Bergamo, Milan–Malpensa, Verona
Alitalia Seasonal: Milan–Linate, Rome–Fiumicino
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna
Blue Air Seasonal: Turin
Blue Panorama Seasonal charter: Rome-Fiumicino, Turin
British Airways London–City
Seasonal: Bristol, London–Gatwick, London–Heathrow, London–Stansted, Manchester
Brussels Airlines Seasonal: Brussels
Condor Seasonal: Frankfurt, Munich
Corendon Dutch Airlines Seasonal: Amsterdam, Maastricht/Aachen
easyJet Seasonal: Amsterdam, Belfast–International, Bordeaux, Bristol, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, London–Southend, London–Stansted, Lyon, Milan–Malpensa, Naples, Porto, Toulouse, Venice
easyJet Switzerland Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva
Edelweiss Air Seasonal: Zürich
Ernest Airlines Seasonal: Bergamo
Eurowings Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart, Vienna
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki
Germania Seasonal: Berlin–Schönefeld, Bremen (resumes 5 May 2019),[3] Münster/Osnabrück (resumes 2 May 2019),[3] Nuremberg[4]
Germania Flug Seasonal: Zurich [5]
HOP! Seasonal: Montpellier, Toulouse
Iberia Express Seasonal: Madrid
Iberia Regional Alicante, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca,[6] Valencia
Seasonal: León, Lleida, Málaga, Menorca, Nice, Vigo
Seasonal charter: Bologna
Jet2.com Seasonal: Belfast–International, Birmingham, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
KLM Seasonal: Amsterdam
Laudamotion Seasonal: Vienna[7]
Lufthansa Seasonal: Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg
Neos Seasonal: Bergamo, Bologna, Milan–Malpensa, Venice, Verona
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Copenhagen, London–Gatwick, Oslo–Gardermoen
Nordica Seasonal: Groningen
People's Seasonal: St Gallen-Altenrhein
Ryanair Barcelona, Málaga, Madrid, Seville,[8] Valencia
Seasonal: Bergamo, Berlin-Tegel, Birmingham, Bologna, Bristol, Brussels, Charleroi, Dublin, Düsseldorf, East Midlands, Edinburgh,[9] Eindhoven, Hahn, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London–Stansted, Manchester, Marseille, Pisa, Prestwick, Rome–Fiumicino, Shannon (begins 3 April 2019),[10] Treviso, Turin, Weeze
S7 Airlines Seasonal: Moscow–Domodedovo
Small Planet Airlines Seasonal charter: Warsaw-Chopin, Katowice
SmartWings Seasonal: Prague
Thomas Cook Airlines Seasonal: Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Midlands, Glasgow, London–Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Transavia Amsterdam, Eindhoven
Seasonal: Rotterdam/The Hague
Transavia France Paris–Orly
TUI Airways Seasonal: Aberdeen, Belfast–International, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, East Midlands, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Norwich[11]
Seasonal charter: Dublin
TUI fly Belgium Seasonal: Antwerp, Brussels, Ostend
Seasonal charter: Metz/Nancy[12], Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Lille, Nantes
TUI fly Deutschland Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart
TUI fly Netherlands Seasonal: Amsterdam
Volotea Seasonal: Asturias, Bari, Bilbao, Bordeaux, Genoa,[13] Palermo, Santander, Verona, Zaragoza
Vueling Alicante, Barcelona, Bilbao, Lisbon, Madrid, Seville
Seasonal: Amsterdam, Málaga, Milan–Malpensa, Paris-Charles de Gaulle[14], Paris–Orly, Rome–Fiumicino, Valencia, Zaragoza
Seasonal charter: Bologna
Wizz Air Seasonal: Budapest

Statistics

Ibiza Airport Passenger Totals 1998-2017 (millions)
Updated: 16. March 2018[1]
PassengersAircraft movementsCargo (tonnes)
1998 3,780,181
1999 4,185,63345,959
2000 4,475,70852,5444,985
2001 4,472,27952,0794,531
2002 4,094,44648,3444,426
2003 4,157,29147,9904,232
2004 4,171,58048,7984,510
2005 4,164,70349,6034,350
2006 4,460,14154,1464,427
2007 4,765,62557,8554,308
2008 4,647,48757,2353,928
2009 4,572,81953,5523,143
2010 5,040,80056,9883,196
2011 5,643,18061,7682,755
2012 5,555,04857,7382,316
2013 5,726,57956,3042,190
2014 6,212,19860,1422,021
2015 6,477,28364,6122,023
2016 7,416,36872,5031,831
2017 7,903,89275,6911,747
Source: Aena Statistics[1]

Accidents and incidents

  • On 7 January 1972, Iberia Airlines Flight 602 struck a mountain when on approach to Ibiza Airport. All 104 passengers and crew on board were killed.[15]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Estadsticas - Aeropuertos Espaoles y Navegacin Area - aena-aeropuertos.es". Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  2. 1 2 Spanish AIP (AENA) Archived 2012-03-07 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. 1 2 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Germania S19 new routes as of 27SEP18".
  4. ↑ 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Germania S17 service expansions – update 1".
  5. ↑ https://www.flygermania.com/en-gb/
  6. ↑ https://ec.europa.eu/transport/sites/transport/files/modes/air/internal_market/doc/pso_inventory_table.pdf
  7. ↑ "Laudamotion outlines summer 2018 operations". routesonline.com. 16 March 2018.
  8. ↑ 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Ryanair expands Spanish base routes in S17".
  9. ↑ 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Ryanair expands Scotland service in S17".
  10. ↑ "Shannon welcomes another new service for 2019 as Ryanair adds Ibiza to schedule Airport's First Ever Ibiza Service Gives Passengers More Choice". Shannon Airport. 2 October 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  11. ↑ 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Thomson outlines planned new routes in S17".
  12. ↑ 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "TUI Belgium outlines S17 new French / Italian routes".
  13. ↑ 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Volotea S17 New routes as of 10OCT16".
  14. ↑ https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/277778/vueling-further-expands-new-spanish-routes-in-s18/
  15. ↑ Harro Ranter (7 January 1972). "ASN Aircraft accident Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle VIR EC-ATV Ibiza Airport (IBZ)". Retrieved 1 June 2015.

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