Car Hire Vigo Airport

Vigo Airport Mini Guide

Vigo Airport serves the municipalities of Vigo, Mos and Redondela in Spain. This medium sized airport is an alternative to the nearby Santiago de Compostela Airport. Over 800,000 passengers use this airport on an annual basis so book your car hire for collection at the airport early to get the vehicle that you most prefer. With a car it is some ten minutes to get to the centre of Vigo.



Some of the destinations to which it is possible to fly from Vigo Airport are Madrid and Tenerife South with Air Europe, Paris Charles de Gaulle with Air France and Bilbao, Valencia and Sevilla with Iberia Air operated by Air Nostrum. Vigo Airport also deals with a large amount of cargo traffic transporting almost 2,000 tonnes of cargo on a daily basis. Vigo Airport was originally built in 1927 when the Spanish government realised that it was necessary to have a customs airport in Galicia. However commercial flights did not start until 1954 when the first flight was scheduled to the capital. Over the years improvements and enlargements took place with the terminal being refashioned in 1995 and further work taking place in 2004.

VGO is the airport code for Vigo Airport, and with the help of a sat nav you can drive easily to and from it using the coordinates map longitude 42.13.45 North and map latitude 008.37.39 West.