Ibiza Airport

Ibiza Airport (IATA: IBZ, ICAO: LEIB) (Catalan: Aeroport d'Eivissa, Spanish: Aeropuerto de Ibiza) is the international airport serving the Balearic Islands of Ibiza and Formentera in Spain located 7 km (4.3 mi) southwest of Ibiza Town.[2] As the island is a major European holiday destination, it features some year-round domestic services as well as several dozen seasonal routes to cities across Europe. It is also used as a seasonal base for Vueling.

Ibiza Airport

Aeroport d'Eivissa
Aeropuerto de Ibiza
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerENAIRE
OperatorAena
ServesIbiza and Formentera
LocationIbiza, Spain
Focus city forVueling
Elevation AMSL24 ft / 7 m
Coordinates38°52′22″N 01°22′33″E
Websiteaena.es
Map
IBZ
Location within Ibiza
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
06/24 9,186 2,800 Asphalt / concrete
Statistics (2019)
Passengers8,155,635
Passenger change 18-190.6%
Aircraft Movements75,378
Movements change 18-192.1%
Cargo (t)1,434
Cargo change 18-1911.2%
Source: AENA[1][2]
Control tower of the airport
Exterior at night (2007)

History

1940–1989

The airport was first established as a temporary military airport during the Spanish Civil War, and remained open after the conflict for use as an emergency airport. In 1949 the site was used to operate some domestic and international tourist flights, but was then closed in 1951.

It was not until 1958 that work commenced to re-open the airport in reaction to the rapid development of the tourist market in the Balearic Islands, particularly in neighbouring Majorca. The airport was reopened on 1 April 1958 with the first destinations during that year including Palma, Barcelona, Valencia and Madrid.

1990 to date

The airport was expanded progressively over the subsequent decades with runway, taxiway, apron and terminal enhancements designed to cope with the growing air tourist market which by the late 1990s was generating over 3.6 million passengers a year at the airport.

In 2011, the airport provisionally handled over 5.6 million passengers and around 61,000 aircraft movements, an increase of 11.9% and 8.4% respectively compared with 2010.[1]

Airlines and destinations
AirlinesDestinations
Air Europa Madrid, Palma de Mallorca
Seasonal: Gran Canaria,[3] Málaga,[3] Santiago de Compostela,[3] Seville[3]
Air France Seasonal: Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly,[4] Toulouse
Air France Hop Seasonal: Montpellier, Toulouse
Air Malta Seasonal: Malta[5]
Alitalia Seasonal: Milan–Linate, Rome–Fiumicino
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna
Blue Air Seasonal: Turin
British Airways London–City
Seasonal: London–Gatwick, London–Heathrow, Southampton (begins 2 May 2021)[6]
Brussels Airlines Seasonal: Brussels
Chair Airlines Seasonal: Zürich
Condor Seasonal: Frankfurt, Munich
Corendon Airlines Europe Seasonal: Düsseldorf (begins 4 May 2021),[7] Hannover,[8] Nuremberg[9]
Corendon Dutch Airlines Seasonal: Amsterdam
easyJet Seasonal: Amsterdam, Basel/Mulhouse, Belfast–International, Berlin (begins 28 March 2021),[10] Bordeaux, Bristol, Geneva, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Lyon, Manchester (begins 1 June 2021),[11] Milan–Malpensa, Nantes, Naples, Porto, Toulouse
Edelweiss Air Seasonal: Zürich
Enter Air Seasonal charter: Katowice, Warsaw-Chopin
Eurowings Düsseldorf
Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg, Hannover, Stuttgart, Vienna
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki
Iberia Express Seasonal: Madrid
Iberia Regional Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Valencia
Seasonal: Alicante, León, Lleida, Málaga, Menorca, Nice
Jet2.com Seasonal: Belfast–International, Birmingham, Bristol (begins 22 May 2021),[12] East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
KLM Seasonal: Amsterdam
Lufthansa Seasonal: Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg
Neos Seasonal: Bergamo, Bologna, Milan–Malpensa, Rimini, Rome–Fiumicino,[13] Turin,[14] Venice, Verona
People's Seasonal: St. Gallen/Altenrhein
Ryanair Barcelona, Madrid, Málaga, Seville,[15]
Seasonal: Bergamo, Berlin, Birmingham, Bologna, Bristol, Charleroi, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh,[16] Eindhoven, Hahn, Glasgow-Prestwick (resumes 2 June 2021),[17] Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London–Stansted, Manchester, Marseille, Pisa, Rome–Fiumicino, Treviso, Turin, Vienna,[18][19] Weeze
Swiss International Air Lines Seasonal: Geneva[20]
TAP Air Portugal Lisbon (begins 5 June 2021)[21]
Transavia Amsterdam
Seasonal: Eindhoven, Montpellier,[22] Paris–Orly, Rotterdam/The Hague
TUI Airways Seasonal: Aberdeen, Belfast–International, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, East Midlands, Exeter, Glasgow, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Norwich[23]
TUI fly Belgium Seasonal: Antwerp, Brussels, Ostend/Bruges
TUI fly Deutschland Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart
TUI fly Netherlands Seasonal: Amsterdam
Volotea Seasonal: Asturias, Bari, Bilbao, Genoa,[24] Palermo, Santander, Verona, Zaragoza
Vueling Alicante, Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid, Málaga, Seville, Valencia
Seasonal: Amsterdam, Lisbon, Milan–Malpensa, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Rome–Fiumicino
Wizz Air Seasonal: Budapest

Cargo
AirlinesDestinations
Swiftair[25] Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Valencia

Statistics
Ibiza Airport passenger totals 1998-2019 (millions)
Updated: 21 June 2020[1]
PassengersAircraft movementsCargo (tonnes)
1998 3,780,181
1999 4,185,63345,959
2000 4,475,70852,5444,985
2001 4,472,27952,0794,531
2002 4,094,44648,3444,426
2003 4,157,29147,9904,232
2004 4,171,58048,7984,510
2005 4,164,70349,6034,350
2006 4,460,14154,1464,427
2007 4,765,62557,8554,308
2008 4,647,48757,2353,928
2009 4,572,81953,5523,143
2010 5,040,80056,9883,196
2011 5,643,18061,7682,755
2012 5,555,04857,7382,316
2013 5,726,57956,3042,190
2014 6,212,19860,1422,021
2015 6,477,28364,6122,023
2016 7,416,36872,5031,831
2017 7,903,89275,6911,747
2018 8,104,31676,9951,616
2019 8,155,63575,3781,435
2020 (June) 533,4447,854512
Source: Aena Statistics[26][1]

Accidents and incidents
  • On 7 January 1972, Iberia Airlines Flight 602 struck a mountain when on approach to Ibiza Airport. All 104 passengers and crew on board were killed.[27]

References
  1. "Estadsticas - Aeropuertos Espaoles y Navegacin Area - aena-aeropuertos.es". Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  2. Spanish AIP (AENA) Archived 2012-03-07 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Liu, Jim. "Air Europa adds new Ibiza routes in 1H20". Routesonline. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
  4. Liu, Jim. "Air France S20 Short-Haul Network additions as of 28JAN20". Routesonline. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  5. https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/284162/airmalta-adds-ibiza-service-in-3q19/
  6. https://mediacentre.britishairways.com/news/09122020/fly-to-europe-from-southampton-with-british-airways?ref=News
  7. "Corendon announces Düsseldorf + Basel bases; 15 routes added at DUS". anna.aero. 2020-09-07.
  8. Liu, Jim. "Corendon Airlines S20 Network expansion". Routesonline. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  9. "Flights to Nuremberg". corendonairlines.com.
  10. https://www.easyjet.com/en
  11. "easyJet holidays adds four new routes for summer 2021". ttgmedia.com. 18 December 2020.
  12. "Jet2's Bristol Airport base will bring 450,000-holiday seats". ukaviation.news. 11 November 2020.
  13. https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/284219/neos-adds-rome-ibiza-service-in-s19/
  14. Liu, Jim. "Neos resumes Turin – Ibiza route in S19". Routesonline. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  15. 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Ryanair expands Spanish base routes in S17".CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  16. 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Ryanair expands Scotland service in S17".CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  17. https://www.ryanair.com/gb/en/
  18. "Laudamotion outlines summer 2018 operations". routesonline.com. 16 March 2018.
  19. Liu, Jim. "Ryanair / Laudamotion S20 network consolidation as of 18JUN20". Routesonline. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  20. Ltd. 2018, UBM (UK). "Swiss expands Geneva European network from June 2019". Routesonline.
  21. Liu, Jim. "TAP Air Portugal NS21 Short-Haul network additions as of 11SEP20". Routesonline. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  22. Liu, Jim. "Transavia France S20 network expansion as of 17JAN20". Routesonline. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  23. 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Thomson outlines planned new routes in S17".CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  24. 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Volotea S17 New routes as of 10OCT16".CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  25. "Swiftair cargo routes". 21 June 2020.
  27. Harro Ranter (7 January 1972). "ASN Aircraft accident Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle VIR EC-ATV Ibiza Airport (IBZ)". Retrieved 1 June 2015.

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