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La Palma Airport

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Airport type
  
Public

Elevation AMSL
  
33 m / 108 ft

Code
  
SPC

Phone
  
+34 902 40 47 04

Passenger count
  
1,116,146

Serves
  
La Palma

01/19
  
2,200

Elevation
  
33 m

Owner
  
ENAIRE

La Palma Airport

Operator
  
Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea

Location
  
Breña Baja and Villa de Mazo

Address
  
Ctra.La Bajita, s/n, 38738 Villa de Mazo, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

Province
  
Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Similar
  
CICAR, Avis Alquiler de Coches e, AUTORED - SL ‑ Grupo Fa, Autos Oasis La Palma, Centro Cancajos

Cockpit view of visual approach and landing at la palma airport canary islands


La Palma Airport (IATA: SPC, ICAO: GCLA) is an airport located in Breña Baja and Villa de Mazo, 8 km (5.0 mi) south of the city of Santa Cruz de La Palma on La Palma in the Canary Islands. It is operated by Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea (AENA), who operate the majority of civil airports in Spain.

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The airport is served mainly by Binter Canarias and CanaryFly with island-hopping flights from Tenerife and Gran Canaria, but there are flights to the main Europe cities and charter flights from some important Europe countries as Germany, United Kingdom, Scandinavia or the Netherlands. In 2016, the airport had 1,116,146 passengers in the 17,300 operations handled. Cargo traffic totalled 585 tonnes.

La palma airport 2016


New terminal

A new terminal building opened in July 2011, giving the airport an ultimate capacity of 3 million passengers per year. The new terminal has 25 check-in desks, 4 baggage carousels, and 9 boarding gates. The new terminal is farther back than the old terminal, meaning that apron space is maximised. There are still no plans to build a taxiway parallel to the runway, so aircraft still have to backtaxi on the runway, limiting capacity to 10 operations per hour. The airport also has a new control tower.

References

La Palma Airport Wikipedia