Girona–Costa Brava Airport

Girona–Costa Brava Airport
Aeroport de Girona-Costa Brava
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorAena
ServesGirona, the Costa Brava
and Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Elevation AMSL143 m / 469 ft
Coordinates41°54′03″N 002°45′38″E / 41.90083°N 2.76056°E / 41.90083; 2.76056
Websiteaena.es
Map
GRO is located in Catalonia
GRO
GRO
Location within Catalonia
GRO is located in Spain
GRO
GRO
GRO (Spain)
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
01/19 2,400 7,874 Asphalt
Statistics (2018)
Passengers2.019.876
Passenger change 17-18Increase 3,8%
Aircraft movements17.870
Aircraft movements change 17-18Decrease 7,2%
Cargo (t)133
Source: AENA[1]

Girona–Costa Brava Airport (IATA: GRO, ICAO: LEGE) (Catalan: Aeroport de Girona-Costa Brava, Spanish: Aeropuerto de Gerona-Costa Brava) is an airport located 12.5 km (7.8 mi) southwest[2] of the city of Girona, next to the small village of Vilobí d'Onyar, in the north-east of Catalonia, Spain. The airport is well connected to the Costa Brava and the Pyrenees. Girona Airport is used as an alternative airport for Barcelona as well, even though the airport is 74 km (46 mi)[3] north of the center of Barcelona.

History

The airport was built in 1965,[4] but passenger traffic was modest.

The early 2000s saw passenger numbers grow spectacularly after Ryanair chose Girona as one of its European hubs, marketing it as 'Barcelona-Girona'. In 1993, Girona Airport dealt with only 275,000 passengers; in the six years from 2002 to 2008 passenger numbers increased by nearly ten times from just over 500,000 to more than 5.5 million, but after Ryanair began to move their Barcelona operations from Girona to the larger El Prat International Airport, half of these were lost again in the next 4 years until 2012 with only 2.8 million passengers.[5] 2014 saw less than 2.2 million passengers pass through the airport. In 2016 it carried just 1.6 million passengers.

Facilities

The airport consists of one two-storey passenger terminal building. On the ground floor there are 33 check-in desks, with 11 boarding gates on the first floor for both domestic and international flights.[6] Food is available in the departures area of the airport, as well as a few shops.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Girona:[7]

AirlinesDestinations
Air Arabia Tangier[8]
Enter Air Seasonal charter: Gdańsk,[9] Katowice,[9] Poznań[9]
Jet2.com Seasonal: Birmingham, Bristol,[10] East Midlands, Edinburgh (begins 3 May 2026),[11] Glasgow,[12] Leeds/Bradford, London–Luton (begins 6 July 2025),[13] London–Stansted, Manchester,[14] Newcastle upon Tyne
Ryanair[15] Beni Mellal,[16] Birmingham, Charleroi, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Kraków, London–Stansted,[17] Marrakesh,[18] Nuremberg, Pisa,[19] Weeze, Wrocław
Seasonal: Aalborg,[20] Bari,[21][22] Beauvais, Belfast-International, Bournemouth, Bristol, Brussels, Cork, Dublin, East Midlands, Belfast–International, Eindhoven, Hahn, Helsinki, Knock, Leeds/Bradford, Lublin (begins 31 March 2025),[23] Maastricht,[24] Manchester, Memmingen, Ostrava (begins 30 March 2025),[25] Paderborn/Lippstadt,[26] Pardubice,[27] Pescara, Poznań, Riga, Shannon, Zagreb[28]
Smartwings Seasonal charter: Katowice,[9] Prague, Warsaw–Chopin[29]
Transavia Seasonal: Amsterdam,[30] Rotterdam/The Hague[31]
TUI Airways[32] Seasonal: Birmingham, London–Gatwick, Manchester
TUI fly Belgium Seasonal: Brussels
Wizz Air Budapest (begins 1 April 2025)

Statistics

Check-in area
Apron view
Control tower
Year Passengers
1997 533,445
1998 610,607
1999 631,235
2000 651,402
2001 622,410
2002 557,187
2003 1,448,796
2004 2,962,988
2005 3,533,567
2006 3,614,223
2007 4,848,604
2008 5,507,294
2009 5,286,970
2010 4,863,785
2011 3,007,649
2012 2,844,571
2013 2,736,867
2014 2,160,646
2015 1,775,318
2016 1,664,763
2017 1,946,816
2018 2,019,876
2019 1,932,255
Source: Aena Statistics[5]

Busiest routes

Busiest international routes from GRO (2023)
Rank Destination Passengers Change 2022 / 23
1 London-Stansted 152,112 Increase 50%
2 Charleroi 123,701 Increase 19%
3 Pisa 100,316 Increase 21%
4 Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden 89,984 Increase 17%
5 Weeze 78,488 Increase 50%
6 Bristol 66,563 Increase 15%
7 Manchester 63,735 Increase 26%
8 Rotterdam/The Hague 62,086 Increase 16%
9 Birmingham 61,552 Increase 121%
10 Amsterdam 59,163 Increase 17%
11 Dublin 52,265 Decrease 9%
12 Leeds/Bradford 47,829 Decrease 3%
13 Memmingen 47,561 Increase 33%
14 Kraków 46,082 Increase 26%
15 Bournemouth 44,409 Increase 24%
16 Nuremberg 40,973 Increase 12%
17 Wrocław 40,132 Increase 36%
18 Belfast-International 39,313 Steady New Route
19 Beauvais 33,702 Increase 22%
20 Cork 30,180 Increase 15%
Source: Estadísticas de tráfico aereo[33]

Ground transportation

Along with being an alternative option to Barcelona Airport, Girona Airport is convenient for the resorts along the Costa Brava, such as Lloret de Mar, l'Estartit and Blanes. It is about a 40-minute drive from the French border and many people use Girona Airport as a way of getting to the Pyrenees and the ski resorts of Andorra.

By car

The airport is served by three main roads:

By bus

There are six bus lines operating in the airport to:

By train

The closest main line railway station to the airport is in Girona. The closest railway station is in fact Riudellots Halt, 4 km (2.5 mi) away from the airport.[35] There is a project to build a station for the AVE line LGV Perpignan–Figueres, which passes within a few hundred meters of the terminal.

Incidents and accidents

Main article: Britannia Airways Flight 226A
  • On 14 September 1999, at 21:47 UTC, a Boeing 757-204 charter flight from Cardiff, Wales, UK, with 236 passengers and 9 crew overshot the runway when landing in a storm and broke apart. After leaving the runway, it ran 343 metres (1,125 ft) across flat grassland beside the runway, before going diagonally over a substantial earth mound adjacent to the airport boundary, becoming semi-airborne as a result. Beyond the mound it hit and severed a number of medium-sized trees and the right engine struck the boundary fence. The aircraft then yawed considerably to the right, passed through the fence, landed again in a field, and its main landing gears collapsed. It finally stopped after a 244-metre (800 ft) slide across the field. Damage was substantial: the fuselage was broken in two places and the landing gear and both engines detached. Remarkably, there were no immediate fatalities but 44 people, including the aircraft's captain, received hospital treatment for severe to minor injuries. One elderly passenger died a week later.[36][37][38]

References

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  4. ^ "AENA Girona-Costa Brava Historia". Archived from the original on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
  5. ^ a b "AENA passenger statistics and aircraft movements".
  6. ^ "Girona-Costa Brava Airport Guide (GRO)". www.gironaairport.net.
  7. ^ aena.es - Destinos retrieved 21 May 2017
  8. ^ https://www.msn.com/fr-fr/voyage/actualite/air-arabia-trois-nouvelles-liaisons-directes-entre-le-maroc-et-l-europe-d%C3%A8s-octobre-2024/ar-BB1qsTRW?ocid=BingNewsSerp [bare URL]
  9. ^ a b c d "Coral Travel". coraltravel.pl.
  10. ^ "Jet2's Bristol Airport base will bring 450,000-holiday seats". ukaviation.news. 11 November 2020.
  11. ^ McNeill, Linsey (24 September 2024). "Jet2 'to launch raft of new routes' for summer '26 - Travel Gossip". Travel Gossip.
  12. ^ "Jet2.com and Jet2holidays expand 'significantly' at three airports for 2023". Travel Weekly.
  13. ^ "Jet2 Expands Luton Airport Routes with Direct Flights to Girona, Verona, and Madeira, Enhancing European Travel Access". 16 November 2024.
  14. ^ "Jet2 NS25 A321neo Network Expansion – 14JUL24".
  15. ^ "Ryanair NS23 Network Additions Summary – 26MAR23". Aeroroutes.
  16. ^ "Ryanair Morocco NS24 Network Expansion". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
  17. ^ "Ryanair UK NS24 Boeing 737 MAX Preliminary Network – 17DEC23".
  18. ^ "Ryanair NW23 Network Changes – 17SEP23".
  19. ^ "Ryanair May – Oct 2023 Italy Frequency Variations – 14MAY23". Aeroroutes.
  20. ^ "NY rute fra Aalborg og til Girona og Costa Brava-kysten". 29 December 2023.
  21. ^ "Ryanair".
  22. ^ "Ryanair NS24 Network Additions Summary – 14JUL24".
  23. ^ "Ryanair nie zwalnia tempa. 4 kolejne nowe trasy z Polski – dwie z nich mogą was zszokować!".
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  25. ^ "Ryanair expanduje v Česku, přidává spojení z Brna, Ostravy i Pardubic" (in Czech). 12 November 2024. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  26. ^ "Ryanair verbindet neu Paderborn/Lippstadt und Girona". 6 December 2023.
  27. ^ "Ryanair posílí i v Pardubicích, přidá linku na letiště Girona–Costa Brava". 5 December 2023.
  28. ^ "RYANAIR NS24 NETWORK ADDITIONS – 10DEC23". Aeroroutes. 12 December 2023. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  29. ^ Liu, Jim (8 January 2024). "Smartwings Poland NS24 Charter Network Additions". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 31 December 2024.
  30. ^ Liu, Jim (25 September 2023). "Transavia NS24 A321neo General Network Overview – 24SEP23". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
  31. ^ Liu, Jim (1 June 2023). "Transavia June 2023 Netherlands Frequency Variations – 28MAY23". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
  32. ^ "Flight Timetable". tui.co.uk.
  33. ^ "Inicio". aena.es. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
  34. ^ "Girona airport guide". www.travelguide.barcelona. 17 July 2024.
  35. ^ "Recorrido". horarios.renfe.com.
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