Split Airport

Split Airport
Split Airport; Split Kaštela/Resnik Airport; Zračna luka Split/Kaštela
	Air traffic control tower and terminal
IATA: SPU – ICAO: LDSP SPU Location of the airport in Croatia
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Split Airport Ltd.
Serves	Split/Kaštela/Trogir
Location	Split
Elevation AMSL	78 ft / 24 m
Coordinates	43°32′20″N 016°17′53″E / 43.53889°N 16.29806°E
Website	www.split-airport.hr
Runways
Statistics (2011)
Movements
Passengers	1,300,381
	Statistics from Split Airport site; General information from Split Airport site; Source: Croatian Aeronautical Information Publication

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Split Kaštela/Resnik Airport (Airport Split) (IATA: SPU, ICAO: LDSP) is the airport serving Split and Kaštela in Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia. It is close to the town of Trogir.

The airport is the second largest in Croatia (after Zagreb) in terms of passenger numbers, handling 1,300,381 passengers in 2011. It is an important hub for Croatia Airlines offering flights to many European cities, such as London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Rome and Paris.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Aeroflot	Seasonal: Moscow-Sheremetyevo^[4]
Air Berlin	Seasonal: Nuremberg, Leipzig
Arkefly	Seasonal: Amsterdam
Austrian Airlines	Seasonal: Vienna
Blue1	Seasonal: Helsinki
Cimber Sterling	Seasonal: Copenhagen
Condor	Seasonal: Frankfurt
Croatia Airlines	Frankfurt, Munich, Rome-Fiumicino, Zagreb Seasonal: Amsterdam, Belgrade,^[5] Hamburg, Düsseldorf, London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow, Lyon, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Vienna, Zürich
DanubeWings	Seasonal: Bratislava
EasyJet	Seasonal: Amsterdam, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bristol, Geneva, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Milan-Malpensa, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino
EasyJet Switzerland	Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva
Germania	Seasonal: Bremen [begins 23 May]
Germanwings	Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart Seasonal: Berlin-Schönefeld [ends 03 June], Dortmund, Hanover
Iberia Airlines operated by Air Nostrum	Seasonal: Madrid
InterSky	Seasonal: Friedrichshafen
Jat Airways	Seasonal: Belgrade [begins 3 July]
Jet2.com	Seasonal: Manchester
Lufthansa	Seasonal: Berlin [begins 02 June], Frankfurt
Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine	Seasonal: Frankfurt, Munich
Malév Hungarian Airlines	Seasonal: Budapest
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Seasonal: Bergen, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stavanger, Stockholm-Arlanda, Trondheim
S7 Airlines	Seasonal: Moscow-Domodedovo^[6]
Scandinavian Airlines	Seasonal: Bergen [begins 25 June], Copenhagen [begins 12 May], Gothenburg-Landvetter, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stavanger [begins 25 June], Stockholm-Arlanda
Sky Work Airlines	Seasonal: Berne [begins 5 May]
Transaero Airlines	Seasonal: Moscow-Domodedovo
Transavia	Seasonal: Rotterdam [begins June 2012]
Vueling	Seasonal: Barcelona [begins 23 June]
Wizz Air	Seasonal: London-Luton [resumes 25 June]
XL Airways France	Seasonal: Paris-Charles de Gaulle

[edit] History

The airport was opened on 25 November 1966. The apron had dimensions of only 200 x 112m and had 6 parking positions. Planned capacity was 150,000 passengers. In 1968. the traffic was already at 150,737, and in 1969 at 235,000. In 1967 the apron was extended for the first time, to accommodate 10 aircraft. The much larger new terminal building was built and opened in 1979 to accommodate traffic for a major sporting event (the 8th Mediterranean Games) held in Split in September, when also another extension to the apron was built. The largest pre-war passenger numbers were achieved in 1987, totalling 1,151,580 passengers and 7,873 landings.

In 1991 the passenger figures dropped almost to zero, as the war broke out in former Yugoslavia. In the years that followed, most of the traffic were NATO and UN cargo planes, such as the C-5 Galaxy, MD-11, Boeing 747 and C-130 Hercules. After 1995 the civilian traffic figures started rising again, and finally in 2007 surpassed the 1987 record. In 2005 the terminal got a major facelift, adding one more gate, the glass facade, as well as the steel/fabric palms illuminated by multi-color LEDs. Now the airport is mostly used during the summer time, as the city of Split is a large tourist destination. Saturdays are the busiest days of the week, with over 100 landings and 20,000 passengers.

The first phase of current extension plans was completed on September 2, 2011 when Croatia's ex-Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor inaugurated latest extension of the airport's apron ramp.

[edit] Expansion plans

New apron

In the last few years the summer peak in airport activity called for an expansion of the airport capacity. Starting in autumn 2009. and running through the year 2014, major overhaul works will be conducted at Split. When all of the expansion is done, Resnik will have an expanded terminal, with 4 jetways. A new, larger apron will be built, because the present one is insufficient.

In September 2011. the new airport ramp was opened. The cost of this investment was 13 million euro, and it includes 34,000m² of new parking space for the airplanes, as well as a large support space on the lower level. This level is actually a ground level, and the airplanes are parked on the roof of the structure. The lower level houses numerous warehouses, workshops, offices and other objects that will support the new 40 million euro terminal building that will be built next to it.

Expansion of Split Airport will happen in 3 phases.

Phase One, 2009–2011
- Expansion of the airport ramp by 34,000 m²
- Purchase of the nearby land, needed for construction
Phase Two, 2012–2014
- Construction of a new airport terminal, connected to the old one, increasing the capacity to 2 million passengers
- Adding a new taxiway, parallel to the runway
- Repaving and adding concrete "shoulders" to the runway
Phase Three (when the need arrives)
- Further expansion of the terminal and addition of four jetways
- Further expansion of the apron, to accommodate the new terminal

[edit] Traffic figures

Airport entrance

*Traffic at Split Resnik Airport* ^[1]
Year	Passengers	Cargo
2000	540,603	1,452
2001	568,625	1,214
2002	617,005	956
2003	698,128	931
2004	778,771	981
2005	934,049	877
2006	1,095,852	1,459
2007	1,190,551	1,482
2008	1,203,778	1,081
2009	1,115,099
2010	1,219,741
2011	1,300,381
2012

[edit] Gallery

Terminal entrance
Terminal interior
The viewing lodge
New airport ramp - lower level entrance
Air traffic control tower
View from the ATC tower
Traffic
Bussy apron
Lufthansa Airbus A319 landing at runway 23
One out of two military tunnels, used to store MiG-21 fighters and other aircraft of the Croatian Air Force