Every year hundreds of tourist who are travelling to Lanzarote use car hire Arrecife Airport because they can choose from a wide range of vehicles at cheap prices. Arrecife Airport is the main airport of this Canary Island which considered to be a part of Spain even though it is located in the Atlantic Ocean off the north coast of Africa. Arrecife Airport is capable of dealing with up to 6 million passengers per annum and in 2008 just over five and a half million passengers used the airport. Many different airlines fly to Arrecife Airport. They include Air Europa flights to Barcelona, Bilbao, Cork, Dublin, Fuerteventura, Madrid, Santiago de Compostela, Shannon and Tenerife South. Inexpensive airline Ryanair connects with Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Brussels South Charleroi, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Girona, Glasgow Prestwick, Hahn, Liverpool, London Luton, London Stansted and Weeze. In terms of inter island flights Binter Canarias goes to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Tenerife North. The airport code for Arrecife Airport is ACE and this public airport is operated by the Aeropuertos Espanoles y Navegacion Aerea. If you are going to Arrecife Airport from Arrecife it is a three mile journey by car. For those who are interested in finding out more about Arrecife Airport there is an aviation museum near to the terminal while car hire offices can also be found when you come out of the arrival hall. The airport has its own website for full information on flight times and routes.