Alicante Airport Mini Guide
Alicante International airport is known as El Altet, and is the sixth biggest airport in terms of passengers in Spain. It is located in Elche, in the region of Murcia, and is about 9km southwest of Alicante. Almost 10 million passengers used Alicante last year making it among the 50 busiest airports in Europe.
Many airlines fly from terminal one including Aer Lingus, Air Berlin, British Airways, Clickair, Iberia, Monarch Airlines, Spanair, Thomas Cook Airlines, Thomsonfly, and Vueling. Easyjet and Ryanair depart from terminal two which is still being worked on and is due for completion in 2009.
There is plenty to keep passengers occupied during their stay with a number of retail services including jewelry, clothes, electronic items, magazines, wines and spirits and cosmetics on offer. There are quite a few restaurants too.
To arrive at the airport by road take the A-7 and N-332. The distance between the urban centre of Alicante and the turnoff for the airport is eight kilometers in both cases, and the average travelling time varies from fifteen minutes to thirty minutes during rush hour.
Parking capacity is 2,000 cars and the rates go from 2 Euro cents per minute for the first half hour up to a 13.95 Euro daily maximum from the fifth day of your stay.
If you are taking the bus you must get the C6 from bus stop number 30 which is out of the arrival building and across the first street, Bus times are displayed on a post next to the stop. The bus comes around every 45 minutes and costs about 1,20 Euros to go downtown. A direct line also goes to Benidorm from stop 29. Taxis are much more expensive, costing around 20 Euros to go to Alicante train station and about 80 Euros to go to Benidorm or Torrevieja. Booking a car is the most cost effective and reliable way to get to your destination though.
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low cost flights to Alicante page. It shows routes into Alicante airport from Austria, Belgium, Denmark and the United Kingdom. The low cost airlines guide is a great way to find up-to-date prices for all the flights in Alicante