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History
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 Mallorca. The airport was reopened on 1 April 1958 with the first destinations during that year including Ibiza, Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona, Valencia and Madrid.
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 3.5 million passengers a year at the airport.
In 2009 the airport handled 4,867,221 passengers and 58,165 aircraft movements, a respective 3.5% and 1.8% decline compared to 2008
Airlines and destinations
- Air Berlin (Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Münster/Osnabrück, Munich, Nuremberg, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Palma de Mallorca, Zurich)
- Air Europa (Barcelona, Bilbao , Madrid)
- Aer Lingus (Dublin) [seasonal]
- Blu-express (Rome-Fiumicino)
- British Airways (London-Gatwick)
- Clickair (Barcelona)
- Condor Airlines (Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart) [seasonal]
- EasyJet (Belfast-International , Berlin-Schönefeld, Bilbao , Bristol , East Midlands Geneva, Glasgow-International , Liverpool , London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Lyon Madrid, Milan-Malpensa, Newcastle, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
- Flybaboo (Geneva)
- Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart)
- Hamburg International (Leipzig/Halle, Saarbrücken)
- Iberia (Madrid) operated by Air Nostrum (Alicante, Bilbao Málaga, Minorca, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Seville, Valencia)
- Jet2.com (Belfast-International, Blackpool, Edinburgh, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle)
- Luxair (Luxembourg)
- Monarch Airlines (Birmingham, London-Gatwick, Manchester)
- MyAir (Bologna, Milan-Orio al Ser Venice-Marco Polo
- Neos (Milan-Malpensa, Milan-Orio al Serio, Venice-Treviso, Verona)
- Niki (Graz, Salzburg, Vienna)
- Norwegian Air Shuttle (Oslo-Gardermoen)
- Ryanair (Bologna, East Midlands, Girona, Liverpool, London-Stansted, Milan-Orio al Serio, Pisa, Rome-Ciampino, Weeze
- Smart Wings (Prague)
- Spanair (Barcelona, Madrid)
- Sun d'Or International Airlines (Tel Aviv)
- Thomas Cook Airlines (Aberdeen, Belfast-International, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, East Midlands, Glasgow-International, Leeds/Bradford, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle)
- Thomson Airways (Belfast-International, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow-International, Leeds/Bradford, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich)
- Transavia.com (Amsterdam)
- Vueling Airlines (Alicante, Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, Seville, Valencia)
