Lleida-Alguaire Airport
| Lleida-Alguaire Airport Aeroport de Lleida-Alguaire |
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| Lleida-Alguaire Airport on January 23, 2010 | |||
IATA: ILD – ICAO: LEDA – LID: ILD [1]
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| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Owner | Generalitat of Catalonia | ||
| Operator | Aeroports de Catalunya | ||
| Serves | Lleida | ||
| Location | Alguaire | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,148 ft / 350 m | ||
| Coordinates | 41°43′40″N 000°32′09″E / 41.72778°N 0.53583°E | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
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| 13/31 | 2,500 | 8,202 | Asphalt |
Lleida-Alguaire Airport (IATA: ILD, ICAO: LEDA) is an airport located in Alguaire, 15 km (9.3 mi) from the centre of Lleida (Catalonia, Spain).
Lleida-Alguaire has been designed as a regional airport to provide both passenger and cargo transport to Western Catalonia (the Ponent region and Catalan Pyrenees), Andorra and some counties (comarques) of La Franja.[2]. The airport construction project had a budget of 130 million euro and it was the first airport built and owned by the Generalitat of Catalonia, via its public-capital company Aeroports de Catalunya. It is also one of the only Spanish Airports that isn't owned by Aena.
Two new highways, the Autovías A-14 and A-22, will provide road access to the airport.
The opening took place on January 17, 2010.
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[edit] Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Flybe | Winter seasonal charter: Birmingham, Bristol [3] |
| Iberia operated by Air Nostrum | Palma de Mallorca, Ibiza, Minorca |
| Pyrenair | Winter seasonal charter: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Madrid, Tenerife, Vigo |
| Thomas Cook | Winter seasonal charter: Belfast-International, London-Gatwick, Manchester[4] |
The airport used to have scheduled service from Frankfurt Hahn Airport and Orio al Serio Airport in Milan from the low cost carrier Ryanair from April 2010, the service ended in March 2011.
[edit] Statistics
In 2010, The airport handled 61,679 passengers.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ ILD is a non-IATA identifier for Lleida-Alguaire Airport, see [1]
- ^ "Lleida to Paris in 90 minutes". InfoCatalunya bulletin of the Generalitat of Catalonia. http://www.gencat.cat/generalitat/eng/govern/infocatalunya/16_infocat/lleida.htm. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
- ^ http://www.brochure-store.co.uk/Brochures/Neilson/TCTNSKS112/-Information/Page358
- ^ http://www.brochure-store.co.uk/Brochures/Neilson/TCTNSKS112/-Information/Page358
- ^ [tt_news=72&cHash=ebf93f68a11d80f34a3702edb57b039a Passenger Numbers]
[edit] External links
- Lleida-Alguaire Airport, official site
- Current weather for LEDA at NOAA/NWS
- Lleida-Alguaire Airport on Architecture News Plus.
