Seville Airport

Seville Airport Aeropuerto de Sevilla
IATA: SVQ ICAO: LEZL
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Aena
Operator	Aena
Serves	Seville, Andalusia, Spain
Focus city for	Ryanair Vueling
Elevation AMSL	34 m / 112 ft
Coordinates	37°25′05″N 005°53′56″W / 37.41806°N 5.89889°W / 37.41806; -5.89889Coordinates: 37°25′05″N 005°53′56″W / 37.41806°N 5.89889°W / 37.41806; -5.89889
Website	aena.es
Map
Seville Airport Location within Andalusia
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 09/27 3,360 11,024 Concrete/Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers 7,544,473 Passenger change 17–18 18.2% Aircraft movements 64,110 Movements change 17–18 10.7% Cargo (t) 9,891 Cargo change 17-18 21.0%
Source: AENA[1]

Seville Airport (IATA: SVQ, ICAO: LEZL)^[1] (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Sevilla)^[2] is the sixth busiest inland airport in Spain. It is the main international airport serving Western Andalusia in southern Spain, and neighbouring provinces. The airport has flight connections to 42 destinations around Europe and Northern Africa, and handled 7,544,473 passengers in 2019.^[3] It serves as a base for the low-cost carriers Vueling and Ryanair.^[4] It is 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) east of central Seville, and some 110 kilometres (68 mi) north-east of Costa de la Luz.

The Seville airport is also known as San Pablo Airport to distinguish it from the older Tablada airport, which was in operation as military aerodrome until 1990.

Facilities[]

Seville Airport is capable of handling six million passengers a year. There are 23 stands (all of them are self-maneuvering) of which 16 are remote, with 42 check-in desks and 16 boarding gates. Since its last enlargement in 1991 for the Seville Expo '92, the airport has undergone minor extension works. 2013 saw the opening of a new car parking building with five floors. It is currently being remodeled to expand its capacity to ten million passengers a year, completion of the works by 2021.

In the airport grounds there is an Airbus factory (San Pablo Sur), an Airbus maintenance center (San Pablo Norte) and a Ryanair maintenance center.

History[]

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In 1914, the first plane flying between the peninsula and Morocco landed at the improvised aerodrome of Tablada, which had been fitted out the previous year for an air festival. Following this, the municipal government of Seville handed over a plot of land measuring 240,000 m² (2,600,000 sq ft) to the Military Aeronautical Society for the construction of an aerodrome. Work on the aerodrome began in 1915 and that same year it began to be used for training pilots and observers.

In 1919, the first commercial flights were operated between Seville and Madrid. The following year, an air postal service was established between Seville and Larache and in 1921, the first Spanish commercial service between Seville and Larache was set up. In 1923, various facilities such as hangars, workshops and premises were opened and approval was given for the construction of a municipal airport in Tablada at one end of the military aerodrome airfield, measuring 750 by 500 m (2,460 by 1,640 ft).

In April 1927, Unión Aérea Española established the air service Madrid-Seville-Lisbon. In February 1929, the Seville airport project was approved and in March, the Tablada aerodrome was opened to flights and air traffic. It was decided that this service would cease once the planned airport was constructed.

In 1929, the first flight was operated between Madrid and Seville and in 1930, this was extended to the Canary Islands. In February 1931, the service between Berlin and Barcelona was extended to Seville. In December 1933, LAPE began a service between Seville and the Canary Islands.

During the Spanish civil war, Seville became the arrival point for African troops, whilst Iberia served air transport with flights between Tetuán-Seville-Vitoria, Seville-Salamanca and Seville-Larache-Las Palmas.

In September 1945, works began on the new Seville transoceanic airport in the land area that occupied the old blimp mooring station, which received the last flight in 1936.^[5] The works started with construction of runways 05/23, 02/20 and 09/27. One year later, it was classified as a customs point and runways 05/23 and 02/20 were asphalted. In 1948, a goniometer was installed, the runway lighting was completed, and the runways became known as 04/22, 18/36 and 09/27. In 1956, runway 09/27 was extended and runway 18/36 became a taxiway. Tablada was relegated to serve as a military aerodrome, until its closure in 1990.^[6]

In 1957, works were carried out on the terminal building and the control tower. Seville Airport was then included in the Spanish American Agreement for the installation of a supplies base. The facilities were developed near the threshold of 04, rendering the runway out of service.

In 1965, an Instrument Landing System was installed. Between 1971 and 1975, the terminal area was renovated, the apron was extended, a new terminal building was constructed and new access roads were developed.

In 1989, with a focus on the Seville Expo '92, the apron was extended, and a new access from the national motorway N-IV was opened; a new terminal building and a new control tower to the south of the runway were also built. The old terminal was repurposed as a cargo terminal. On 31 July, the new installations were inaugurated.

The new terminal expansion program was begun in 2019 to cope with rapid passenger growth and increase its capacity to 10 million passenger by year.

Airlines and destinations[]

Airlines	Destinations
Air Europa	Madrid,[7] Tenerife–North Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca
Air France	Paris–Charles de Gaulle[8]
British Airways	London–Gatwick
easyJet	Geneva, London–Gatwick Seasonal: Lyon, Nice, Toulouse
Edelweiss Air	Zürich
Iberia Express	Madrid
Iberia Regional	Almería, Madrid, Melilla, Valencia Seasonal: Castellón,[9][10] Lanzarote
Lufthansa	Frankfurt, Munich
Ryanair	Alicante (resumes 31 October 2021),[11] Barcelona, Bari, Beauvais, Bergamo, Billund (begins 2 November 2021),[12] Bologna, Bordeaux, Bristol, Budapest, Cagliari, Catania, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Dublin, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Fez, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Hahn (begins 31 October 2021),[13] Ibiza, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden (begins 2 November 2021),[14] Krakow, Lanzarote, Lisbon, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Malta, Manchester, Marrakesh, Marseille, Milan–Malpensa, Nantes, Naples, Oujda (begins 1 November 2021),[15] Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Pisa, Porto, Rabat, Rome–Fiumicino, Santiago de Compostela, Tangier, Tenerife–South, Tétouan (begins 1 November 2021),[16] Toulouse, Treviso, Valencia, Vienna, Vitoria Seasonal: Agadir (begins 5 November 2021),[17] Alghero, Menorca, Tenerife–North (begins 2 November 2021),[18] Turin (begins 31 October 2021)[19]
Scandinavian Airlines	Seasonal: Stockholm–Arlanda[20]
TAP Air Portugal	Lisbon
Transavia	Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Montpellier, Nantes, Paris–Orly Seasonal: Lyon
TUI fly Belgium	Seasonal: Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Volotea	Asturias, Bilbao,[21] Santander
Vueling	A Coruña, Asturias, Barcelona, Bilbao, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Marrakesh, Palma de Mallorca, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly, Rome–Fiumicino, Santiago de Compostela, Tenerife–North, Valencia Seasonal: Menorca
Wizz Air	Bucharest[22]

Statistics[]

Busiest routes[]

Rank	City	Passengers (2013)	Passengers (2014)	Change	Carriers
1	Barcelona	787,402	808,888	02.7%	Ryanair, Vueling
2	Paris	336,458	351,623	04.5%	Ryanair, Transavia France, Vueling
3	Madrid	241,069	244,619	01.5%	Iberia Express
4	Majorca	198,564	239,423	020.6%	Air Europa, Ryanair, Vueling
5	London	195,480	236,250	020.9%	easyJet, Ryanair, British Airways
6	Tenerife	190,044	185,756	02.3%	Air Europa, Ryanair, Vueling
7	Gran Canaria	177,580	177,977	00.2%	Air Europa, Ryanair, Vueling
8	Bilbao	149,691	144,249	03.6%	Vueling
9	Rome	104,877	138,749	032.3%	Ryanair, Vueling
10	Brussels	98,758	133,004	034.7%	Brussels Airlines, Ryanair

Passengers and movements[]

	Number of passengers[note 1]	Number of movements[note 2]	Seville Airport passenger totals 1997–2020 (millions)
1997	1,542,761	19,992
1998	1,595,692	21,911
1999	1,688,539	23,275
2000	2,037,353	25,701
2001	2,205,117	38,848
2002	2,042,068	36,124
2003	2,269,565	38,483
2004	2,678,595	44,231
2005	3,521,112	55,423
2006	3,871,785	58,576
2007	4,507,264	65,092
2008	4,392,148	65,067
2009	4,051,392	55,601
2010	4,224,718	54,499
2011	4,959,359	56,021
2012	4,292,020	48,520
2013	3,687,714	41,591
2014	3,884,146	42,380
2015	4,308,845	46,086
2016	4,624,038	45,838
2017	5,108,807	48,661
2018	6,380,483	57,913
2019	7,544,357	64,112
2020	2,315,610	33,633	Source: AENA[23]

Ground transportation[]

Public transport[]

Urban Transport Line of Seville Airport Airport Express connects the bus station Plaza de Armas, in the centre of the city with the airport. It has intermediate stops at strategic points of the city, including the AVE train station of Santa Justa. The whole trip takes approximately 40 minutes. Buses run from 04.30 till 00.45.^[24]

Incidents and accidents[]

• On 20 April 2011 a Vueling Airbus A320-200 EC-GRH operating flight VY2220 with 150 from Barcelona to Seville aborted landing due to the nose gear stuck in a 90 degrees position the aircraft performed a low approach and the aircraft made a safe emergency landing on runway 27.
• The 2015 Seville A400M crash took place near to the airport.

Notes[]

References[]

External links[]

Media related to San Pablo Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Current weather for LEZL at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for SVQ at Aviation Safety Network