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Girona-Costa Brava Airport
| Girona-Costa Brava Airport Aeroport de Girona |
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|---|---|---|---|
| IATA: GRO ICAO: LEGE | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Owner | Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea (AENA) | ||
| Location | Girona, Catalonia | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 465.8 ft / 142 m | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 02/20 | 7,874 | 2,400 | Asphalt |
Girona-Costa Brava Airport (IATA: GRO, ICAO: LEGE) is an airport located 12km south from the city of Girona, next to the small village of Vilobí d'Onyar, in the north-east of Catalonia, Spain. It is well connected to the Costa Brava, Barcelona and the Pyrenees.
The airport was built in 1965,[citation needed] but passenger traffic was modest.[citation needed] The early 2000s saw passenger numbers grow spectacularly after Ryanair chose Girona as one of its European hubs.[citation needed] In 1993 Girona Airport only dealt with 275,000 passengers[citation needed] but by 2007 that number had escalated to more than 4.8 million passengers.[citation needed]
Many people use Girona Airport as an alternative airport for Barcelona, though it is 92 km (57.5 miles) [1] to the north of Barcelona. Passengers can transfer to Barcelona via bus, taxi or train.
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Statistics
Passenger numbers 1997 to 2007:
| Year | Passengers |
|---|---|
| 1997 | 533,445 |
| 1998 | 610,607 |
| 1999 | 631,235 |
| 2000 | 651,402 |
| 2001 | 622,410 |
| 2002 | 557,187 |
| 2003 | 1,448,796 |
| 2004 | 2,962,988 |
| 2005 | 3,533,567 |
| 2006 | 3,614,223 |
| 2007 | 4,848,619 |
To and around the airport
From Girona Airport you can easily reach the resorts along the Costa Brava, places such as Lloret de Mar, l'Estartit, Blanes. You are also only 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 Resort of Andorra.
By car
The airport is served by three main roads:
- E-15/AP-7 toll road (Perpignan, France - south of Spain)
- C-25 (Lleida - Girona)
- N-II, no-toll road (Madrid - Barcelona - Perpignan, France)
By bus
There are 4 bus lines operating in the airport:
- Airport-Barcelona (1 hour 10 minutes, departure times depending on flights (on Sunday the last bus leaves Barcelona at 7.15pm))
- Airport-Costa Brava/Maresme (Stops at Tossa de Mar, Lloret de Mar, Blanes, Malgrat de Mar, Santa Susanna, Pineda de Mar and Calella de la Costa),
- Airport-North Costa Brava (Stops at Figueres, Roses, Pineda de Mar, Calella de la Costa and Tossa de Mar)
- Airport-Girona (25 minutes, one every hour).
By train
There is no train station at the airport. The closest one is in Girona city. There is a project to build a station for the future AVE line Barcelona-France (Spanish TGV).
Airliner crash, 1999
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- See main article Britannia Airways Flight BY226A
On 14 September 1999, at 21:47 UTC, a Boeing 757 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 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 a number of medium sized trees and the right engine struck the boundary fence. The aircraft then passed through the fence, re-landed in a field and both main landing gears collapsed. It finally stopped after a 244 metre slide across the field. Damage was substantial: the fuselage was broken in two places and the landing gear and both engines detached. There were no fatalities and the injuries were few: 2 serious and 42 minor.[2] [3]
Airlines and destinations
- Jetairfly (Brussels) [seasonal]
- Ryanair (Aarhus, Alghero, Altenburg, Basel, Billund, Birmingham, Blackpool, Bologna-Forli, Bournemouth, Bratislava, Bremen, Bristol, Brno, Brussels-Charleroi, Cagliari, Doncaster/Sheffield, Dublin, Durham Tees Valley, East Midlands, Eindhoven, Fez, Frankfurt-Hahn, Fuerteventura, Glasgow-Prestwick, Gothenburg-City, Granada, Graz, Hamburg-Lübeck, Ibiza [begins 4 November], Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Leeds/Bradford [begins 1 October], Linz, Liverpool, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Maastricht, Madrid, Malta, Manchester, Marrakech, Milan-Bergamo, Newcastle, Newquay, Oslo-Torp, Palma de Mallorca [begins 19 December], Paris-Beauvais, Pescara, Pisa, Porto, Pozna, Rome-Ciampino, Shannon, Stockholm-Skavsta, Tenerife-South, Trapani, Turin [begins 28 October], Venice-Treviso, Weeze, Wrocaw)
- Smart Wings (Brno, Ostrava, Prague)
- Spanair (Madrid, Ibiza [seasonal], Mahon [seasonal], Palma de Mallorca [seasonal])
- Thomas Cook Airlines (Belfast-International, Birmingham, Manchester) [seasonal]
- Thomsonfly (Birmingham, Cardiff, London-Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle) [seasonal]
- transavia.com (Amsterdam, Paris-Orly, Rotterdam)
- Wizz Air (Budapest[seasonal], Gdask[seasonal], Katowice, Sofia [begins 15 September])
External links
- Airport information for LEGE at World Aero Data
- Girona Airport Website
- Free online Guide about Girona airport
- AENA Website about Spanish airports
- Girona Airport Transport
- Maps and transports Airport Costa Brava
Notes and references
- ^ [1]
- ^ "Special Bulletin S1/2000 - Boeing 757-204, G-BYAG", Air Accidents Investigation Branch (2000).
- ^ "BBC report of air crash", BBC (1999).
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