Seville Airport

Seville Airport
Aeropuerto de Sevilla
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner ENAIRE
Operator Aena
Serves Seville, Spain
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL 34 m / 112 ft
Coordinates 37°25′05″N 005°53′56″W / 37.41806°N 5.89889°W / 37.41806; -5.89889Coordinates: 37°25′05″N 005°53′56″W / 37.41806°N 5.89889°W / 37.41806; -5.89889
Website aena.es
Map
Seville Airport
Location within Andalusia
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
09/27 3,360 11,024 Concrete/Asphalt
Statistics (2017)
Passengers 5,108,807
Passenger change 16–17 Increase10.5%
Aircraft movements 48,660
Movements change 16–17 Increase14.8%
Cargo (t) 10,706
Source: AENA

Seville Airport (IATA: SVQ, ICAO: LEZL)[1] (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Sevilla)[2] is the sixth busiest inland airport in Spain. It is the main international airport serving Western Andalusia in southern Spain, and neighbouring provinces. The airport has flight connections to 42 destinations around Europe and Northern Africa, and handled 5,108,807 passengers in 2017.[3] It serves as base for the low cost carriers Vueling and Ryanair.[4] It is 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) east of downtown Seville, and some 110 kilometres (68 mi) north-east of Costa de la Luz.

Facilities

Seville Airport is capable of handling six million passengers a year. There are 23 stands (all of them are self-maneuvering) of which 16 are remote, with 42 check-in desks and 16 boarding gates. Since its opening in 1991, the airport has undergone minor extension works. 2013 saw the opening of a new car parking building with five floors.

History

In 1914, the first plane flying between the peninsula and Morocco landed at the improvised aerodrome of Tablada, which had been fitted out the previous year for an air festival. Following this, the municipal government of Seville handed over a plot of land measuring 240,000 m2 (2,600,000 sq ft) to the Military Aeronautical Society for the construction of an aerodrome. Work on the aerodrome began in 1915 and that same year it began to be used for training pilots and observers.

In 1919 the first commercial flights were operated between Seville and Madrid. The following year, an air postal service was established between Seville and Larache and in 1921, the first Spanish commercial service between Seville and Larache was set up. In 1923, various facilities such as hangars, workshops and premises were opened and approval was given for the construction of a municipal airport in Tablada at one end of the military aerodrome airfield, measuring 750 by 500 m (2,460 by 1,640 ft).

In April 1927, Unión Aérea Española established the air service Madrid-Seville-Lisbon. In February 1929, the Seville airport project was approved and in March, the Tablada aerodrome was opened to flights and air traffic. It was decided that this service would cease once the planned airport was constructed.

In 1929 the first flight was operated between Madrid and Seville and in 1930, this was extended to the Canary Islands. In February 1931, the service between Berlin and Barcelona was extended to Seville. In December 1933, LAPE began a service between Seville and the Canary Islands.

During the Spanish civil war, Seville became the arrival point for African troops, whilst Iberia served air transport with flights between Tetuán-Seville-Vitoria, Seville-Salamanca and Seville-Larache-Las Palmas.

In September 1945, works began on the Seville transoceanic airport, with the construction of runways 05/23, 02/20 and 09/27. One year later, it was classified as a customs point and runways 05/23 and 02/20 were asphalted. In 1948, a goniometer was installed, the runway lighting was completed, and the runways became known as 04/22, 18/36 and 09/27. In 1956, runway 09/27 was extended and runway 18/36 became a taxiway.

In 1957, works were carried out on the terminal building and the control tower. Seville Airport was then included in the Hispanic American Agreement for the installation of a supplies base. The facilities were developed near the threshold of 04, rendering the runway out of service.

In 1965 an Instrument Landing System was installed. Between 1971 and 1975, the terminal area was renovated, the apron was extended, a new terminal building was constructed and new access roads were developed.

In 1989, with a focus on the Seville Expo '92, the apron was extended, and a new access from the national motorway N-IV was opened; a new terminal building and a new control tower to the south of the runway were also built. On 31 July, the new installations were inaugurated.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
Air Europa Tenerife–North
Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca
Blue Air Turin[5]
British Airways London–Gatwick
Brussels Airlines Seasonal: Brussels
Danish Air Transport Seasonal charter: Aalborg, Billund
easyJet Bristol, Edinburgh, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Nice, Toulouse, Venice
easyJet Switzerland Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva
Edelweiss Air Zurich
Iberia Express Madrid
Iberia Regional Almeria (PSO),[6] Valencia
Seasonal: Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Madrid
Laudamotion Vienna (begins 31 October 2018)[7]
Level Seasonal: Vienna (begins 31 March 2019)
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich
Ryanair Alicante, Barcelona, Bari, Beauvais, Bergamo, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bologna, Bordeaux, Bristol (begins 29 October 2018), Charleroi, Budapest (begins 2 May 2019), Cagliari (begins 29 October 2018), Catania (begins 28 October 2018), Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh (begins 30 October 2018), Eindhoven, Fez,[8] Frankfurt, Fuerteventura (begins 28 October 2018), Gran Canaria, Hamburg, Ibiza, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Krakow, Lanzarote, London–Stansted, Luxembourg (begins 1 November 2018), Malta, Manchester, Marrakesh, Marseille, Memmingen, Milan–Malpensa, Nantes (begins 28 October 2018), Naples, Palma de Mallorca, Pisa, Porto (begins 30 October 2018), Rabat (begins 28 October 2018), Rome–Fiumicino, Santiago de Compostela, Tangier (begins 28 October 2018), Tenerife–South, Treviso (begins 30 October 2018), Valencia, Valladolid, Verona, Vitoria, Warsaw-Modlin[8]
TAP Air Portugal Lisbon
Transavia Amsterdam, Eindhoven
Transavia France Paris–Orly
Seasonal: Lyon, Nantes
Volotea Asturias, Bilbao, Santander
Vueling A Coruña, Barcelona, Bilbao, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome–Fiumicino, Tenerife–North, Valencia
Seasonal: Lyon, Menorca, Nantes

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
ASL Airlines Belgium Liège
DHL Aviation Vitoria
UPS Airlines Vitoria

Statistics

Seville Airport in 1946
Check-in area
Gate area
Cargo Terminal

Busiest routes

Rank Country City Passengers (2013) Passengers (2014) Change Carriers
1 Spain Barcelona 787,402 808,888 Increase2.7% Ryanair, Vueling
2 France Paris 336,458 351,623 Increase4.5% Ryanair, Transavia France, Vueling
3 Spain Madrid 241,069 244,619 Increase1.5% Iberia Express
4 Spain Majorca 198,564 239,423 Increase20.6% Air Berlin, Air Europa, Ryanair, Vueling
5 United Kingdom London 195,480 236,250 Increase20.9% easyJet, Ryanair, British Airways
6 Spain Tenerife 190,044 185,756 Decrease2.3% Air Europa, Ryanair, Vueling
7 Spain Gran Canaria 177,580 177,977 Increase0.2% Air Europa, Ryanair, Vueling
8 Spain Bilbao 149,691 144,249 Decrease3.6% Vueling
9 Italy Rome 104,877 138,749 Increase32.3% Ryanair, Vueling
10 Belgium Brussels 98,758 133,004 Increase34.7% Brussels Airlines, Ryanair
11 Italy Milan 110,534 119,299 Increase7.9% Ryanair
12 Netherlands Amsterdam 70,095 94,482 Increase34.8% Transavia Holland, Vueling
13 Spain Valencia 143,915 93,652 Decrease34.9% Air Nostrum, Vueling
14 Spain A Coruña 70,177 70,431 Increase0.4% Vueling
15 Italy Bologna 65,503 64,912 Decrease0.9% Ryanair
16 France Toulouse 50,658 46,930 Decrease7.4% Air France, Air Nostrum
17 Spain Lanzarote 43,874 46,900 Increase6.9% Air Europa, Air Nostrum, Ryanair
18 France Marseille 42,785 46,134 Increase7.8% Ryanair
19 Portugal Lisbon 27,252 43,041 Increase57.9% TAP Portugal
20 Spain Santiago 64,329 42,295 Decrease34.3% Ryanair

Passengers and movements

Number of
passengers[note 1]		Number of
movements[note 2]		Seville Airport passenger totals
1997–2016 (millions)
1997 1,542,76119,992
1998 1,595,69221,911
1999 1,688,53923,275
2000 2,037,35325,701
2001 2,205,11738,848
2002 2,042,06836,124
2003 2,269,56538,483
2004 2,678,59544,231
2005 3,521,11255,423
2006 3,871,78558,576
2007 4,507,26465,092
2008 4,392,14865,067
2009 4,051,39255,601
2010 4,224,71854,499
2011 4,959,35956,021
2012 4,292,02048,520
2013 3,687,71441,591
2014 3,884,14642,380
2015 4,308,84546,086
2016 4,624,03845,838
2017 5,108,80748,660 Source: AENA[3]

Ground transportation

Public transport

Urban Transport Line of Seville Airport Airport Express connects the bus station Plaza de Armas, in the center of the city with the airport. It has intermediate stops at strategic points of the city, including the AVE train station of Santa Justa. The whole trip takes approximately 40 minutes. Buses run from 04.30 till 00.45.[9]

Incidents and accidents

  • On the 20th April 2011 a Vueling Airbus A320-200 EC-GRH operating flight VY2220 with 150 from Barcelona to Seville aborted landing due to the nose gear stuck in a 90 degrees position the aircraft performed a low approach and the aircraft made a safe emergency landing on runway 27.
  • The 2015 Seville A400M crash took place near to the airport.

Notes

  1. ↑ Number of passengers including domestic and international.
  2. ↑ Number of movements represents total takeoffs and landings during that year.

References

  1. ↑ Official airport website, in English Archived 2012-03-01 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ Official airport website, in Spanish Archived 2007-11-09 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. 1 2 "TRÁFICO DE PASAJEROS, OPERACIONES Y CARGA EN LOS AEROPUERTOS ESPAÑOLES – aena-aeropuertos.es" (PDF). aena.es. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-05.
  4. ↑ "Ryanair to open Seville base". examiner.ie.
  5. ↑ https://www.blueairweb.com/first-page/
  6. ↑ https://ec.europa.eu/transport/sites/transport/files/modes/air/internal_market/doc/pso_inventory_table.pdf
  7. ↑ https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/278806/laudamotion-adds-vienna-base-in-w18/
  8. 1 2 http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/271685/ryanair-w17-new-routes-as-of-05mar17/
  9. ↑ "Airport Bus Timetable" (PDF). TUSSAM.es. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-06-16. Retrieved 9 August 2015.

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