Seville Airport

Historia

Seville Airport 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 4,308,852 passengers in 2015. It serves as base for the low cost carriers Vueling and Ryanair. It is 10km east of downtown Seville, and some 110km north-east of Costa de la Luz.FacilitiesSeville 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 opening in 1991 Seville airport has undergone minor extension works. In 2013 opened the new car parking building of 5 floors.HistoryIn 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 240000m2 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 750by.

"El Aeropuerto de Sevilla, situado a diez kilómetros al noroeste de la capital hispalense, afrontó su máxima expansión en 1992 cuando, con motivo de la Exposición Universal, se construyó un nuevo edificio terminal, se amplió la plataforma de estacionamiento de aeronaves y se ejecutó un nuevo acceso desde la carretera nacional N-IV; al sur de la pista se edificó una nueva torre de control.Se diseñó un edificio enraizado en la cultura sevillana y, para ello, se sirvió de tres componentes tradicionales: la Mezquita, el Palacio y los naranjos. Un huerto de naranjos recibe al viajero en el aeropuerto, para luego entrar en una estancia de color azul por efecto de las tejas vidriadas y coronada por una arquería sustentada por las bóvedas."