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Gran Canaria Airport Aeropuerto de Gran Canaria | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Aena | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Gran Canaria | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Telde and Ingenio, Spain | ||||||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 24 m / 78 ft | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 27°55′55″N 015°23′12″W / 27.93194°N 15.38667°W | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||||
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Gran Canaria Airport (IATA: LPA, ICAO: GCLP) (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Gran Canaria) is a passenger and freight airport on the island of Gran Canaria. It is an important airport within the Spanish air-transport network (owned and managed by a public enterprise, AENA), as it holds the sixth position in terms of passengers, and fifth in terms of operations and cargo transported. It also ranks first of the Canary Islands in all three categories, although the island of Tenerife has higher passenger numbers overall if statistics from the two airports located on the island are combined.[5][6][7] The facility covers 553 hectares (1,370 acres) of land and contains two 3,100m runways.[8]
The airport is located in the eastern part of Gran Canaria on the Bay of Gando (Bahía de Gando), 19 km (12 mi) to the south[9] of Las Palmas, and 25 km (16 mi) from the popular tourist areas in the south. In 2014 it handled over 10.3 million passengers, ranking 1st in the Canary Islands and 5th in Spain by passenger traffic.[10] Gran Canaria Airport is an important hub for passengers travelling to West Africa (Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, Cape Verde, among others), and to the Atlantic Isles of Madeira and the Azores. It serves as base for Binter Canarias, Canaryfly, Ryanair, Norwegian Air Shuttle and Vueling. Other airlines use it as a base to operate charter flights to Cape Verde and Gambia (TUI fly Deutschland and TUI fly Nordic), but only in the winter.
- ^ Harper, Lewis (14 June 2023). "Air Baltic to open winter base in Gran Canaria". Flight Global.
- ^ "Norwegian to reopen base in Las Palmas, Canary Islands". 4 April 2024.
- ^ "Aena Statistics" (in Spanish).
- ^ "Spanish AIP (AENA)". Archived from the original on 7 March 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
- ^ "Entrada en los aeropuertos canarios según islas". Archived from the original on 13 November 2010.
- ^ "ISTAC: Estadísticas de la Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias" [ISTAC: Statistics of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands]. www.gobiernodecanarias.org (in Spanish).
- ^ "Aeropuerto de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (LPA)" [Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Airport (LPA)]. www.grancanaria-airport.net (in Spanish).
- ^ "Gran Canaria Airport Facts And Figures". jetapp.co.uk. Retrieved October 19, 2023.
- ^ EAD Basic Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine. Ead.eurocontrol.int. Retrieved on 2011-08-02.
- ^ "Spanish Airport Authority" (PDF).