Gibraltar International Airport

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Gibraltar International Airport
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New passenger terminal, with Rock of Gibraltar behind it
Summary
Airport typeMilitary / public
Owner Ministry of Defence
Operatoraerodrome: Royal Air Force
airport terminal: Government of Gibraltar
Serves Gibraltar (UK), and
Campo de Gibraltar (Spain) [1]
Location Gibraltar
Time zone Central European Time (+1)
 • Summer (DST) Central European Summer Time (+2)
Elevation  AMSL 3.7 m / 12 ft
Coordinates 36°09′04″N005°20′59″W / 36.15111°N 5.34972°W / 36.15111; -5.34972
Website www.gibraltarairport.gi
Map
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GIB
Location of airport in Gibraltar
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GIB
GIB (Europe)
Gibraltar International Airport
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
mft
09/271,7765,827grooved asphalt
Statistics (2022)
Passengers446,187
Passenger change 2021–22Increase2.svg70%
Aircraft movements3,868
Movements change 2021–22Increase2.svg18.3%
Sources: WAD [2]
UK Military Aeronautical Information Publication – Gibraltar. [3]

Gibraltar International Airport, previously known as North Front Airport, ( IATA : GIB, ICAO : LXGB) is the civilian airport that serves the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. The runway and aerodrome is owned by the Ministry of Defence (MoD), and operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF) as RAF Gibraltar. [3] Civilian operators use the civilian-operated terminal. National Air Traffic Services (NATS) hold the contract for provision of air navigation services at the airport.

Contents

In 2017, the civilian airport handled 571,184 passengers and 302,094 kilograms (666,003 pounds) of cargo on 4,888 total flights. [4] Winston Churchill Avenue (the main road heading towards the land border with Spain) intersects the airport runway, and consequently has to be closed every time an aircraft lands or departs. The History Channel programme Most Extreme Airports ranked the airport the fifth most extreme airport in the world, ahead of the now-defunct Kai Tak Airport with its infamous right-hand turn approach over central Hong Kong before landing, but behind Princess Juliana International Airport, famous for its low-altitude approaches over a public beach. [5] It is exposed to strong cross winds around the 'rock' and across the Bay of Gibraltar, making landings in winter particularly challenging.

Prior to its bankruptcy, Monarch Airlines was the largest operator at Gibraltar, but entered administration and ceased operations in October 2017. [6] As of 2021 easyJet is the largest airline operator, with the airport also being served by British Airways.

Although located in Gibraltar, the airport is also used by people travelling to or from neighbouring parts of southern Spain such as the Costa del Sol or the Campo de Gibraltar.

History

A bulldozer and steamroller being used during the construction of a new aerodrome on Gibraltar, November 1941 Bulldozer and steamroller during the construction of Gibraltar Airport, 1941.jpg
A bulldozer and steamroller being used during the construction of a new aerodrome on Gibraltar, November 1941
Winston Churchill Avenue crossing the runway with the rock in the background Aeropuerto, Gibraltar, 2015-12-09, DD 01.JPG
Winston Churchill Avenue crossing the runway with the rock in the background
Runway overview Airport and Stadium in Gibraltar.jpg
Runway overview

Construction

The first attempt of passenger air traffic from Gibraltar was made in 1931 by Gibraltar Airways Ltd, using the territory's race course on the North Frontier, however the service closed after only three and a half months. [7] The actual airport was constructed during World War II upon the former race track, when Gibraltar was an important naval base for the British. Opened in 1936, at first it was only an emergency airfield for the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA). [7] In 1940, a landing strip was made and the airfield was used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and Fleet Air Arm, mostly for anti-U-boat patrols and convoy protection. [7] However, the runway was extended in 1942-1943 by reclaiming some land from the Bay of Gibraltar using rock blasted from the Rock of Gibraltar while carrying out works on military tunnels. [7] By April 1942, the runway was extended to 1,150 yards (3,450 feet; 1,050 metres), by November 1942 to 1,550 yards (4,650 feet; 1,420 metres), and by July 1943 to 1,800 yards (5,400 feet; 1,600 metres). [7] This last major extension of the runway allowed larger aircraft to land at Gibraltar. [7]

Business development 2000–2009

On 3 November 2003, Monarch Airlines announced a new route from Gibraltar to Manchester Airport. [8] It was the first route from Gibraltar to operate to the North of England. However, on 19 July 2006, Monarch withdrew the route due to the cost. On 21 April 2008, Monarch announced it would resume the services to Manchester from 12 September 2008. The route operated three to five times a week: every Monday, Wednesday and Friday in winter season, as well as on Thursdays and Sundays in the summer season.

By late 2005 and early 2006, the implementation of a new agreement was one of the main topics of the Gibraltar Trilateral Forum being held between the Governments of Gibraltar, Spain, and the United Kingdom. As a result, the Córdoba Accord was signed on 18 September 2006 by all parties. This ended all discriminatory restrictions on civilian flights to Gibraltar International, including the prohibition of flights over Spanish soil, and exclusion of Gibraltar from all EU agreements on air transport, allowing civilian flights from all nations into Gibraltar International. [9]

On 17 November 2006, Iberia Airlines announced that it would start flights from Madrid to Gibraltar using an Airbus A319 aircraft. This was a landmark move, as no Spanish airline had flown to Gibraltar since 1979, because of its disputed status. Iberia began flights to Gibraltar International on 16 December 2006, with a flight from Madrid that included some members of the Spanish Government on board. GB Airways flew a one-off flight in the other direction with a group of children from the Gibraltar area making up the passengers. In May 2007, GB Airways (flying as a British Airways franchisee) also began operating the route between Madrid and Gibraltar, however, this was discontinued on 30 September, leaving Iberia to work the route alone. On 22 September 2008, Iberia announced that it would cease its flights to Madrid by 28 September due to "economic reasons", namely, lack of demand. This left Gibraltar, once again, without any air links with Spain. [10]

In April 2009, Ándalus Líneas Aéreas restored Gibraltar's air link with the Spanish capital. [11] In July 2009, Ándalus also began scheduled flights to Barcelona, increasing the destinations in Spain to two. [12] However, the airline ceased to serve this route in September 2009 due to a lack of demand. [13] In April 2010, it was confirmed that Ándalus flights to and from Gibraltar had been indefinitely suspended. [14] And now yet again, Gibraltar has no direct air links to Spain. Ándalus Líneas Aéreas ceased operations on 13 August 2010.

In 2009, British Airways moved its flights from Gatwick to its main base at London Heathrow.

Business development 2010–2019

From 2011 until October 2012, easyJet offered thrice-weekly service from Gibraltar to Liverpool, but it was eventually cancelled due to lack of demand.

On 18 May 2011, Bmibaby announced that it would launch flights from Gibraltar to East Midlands Airport from 31 March 2012. This was the first time that an airline has operated that route. The route operated on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, using a Boeing 737-300. However, on 3 May 2012, it was announced that Bmibaby was to be closed by the International Airlines Group after the group failed to find a buyer for the airline. Bmibaby operated its last service to Gibraltar on 8 September 2012, and the airline operated its last flight the following day.

On 10 January 2012, Gibraltar was selected as one of the 'World's Scariest Airport Landings and Take-offs' in the travel section of the Daily Telegraph due to its runway which extends into the sea. [15]

On 14 August 2012, Monarch announced it would launch a new route to Birmingham, operating three times a week; every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The route began on 23 March 2013, but changed to running on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. [16]

In the summer of 2014, services between Gibraltar and Marrakech were operated by Royal Air Maroc Express on behalf of a local travel company, Your Flight. [17] However, the services, which were operated on a charter basis, and could not be booked via global distribution system channels or on a connection basis, terminated after just three months due to insufficient demand. [18]

In November 2014, easyJet announced that it would begin a new route to Bristol Airport which commenced on 19 April 2015. [19]

Royal Air Maroc (RAM) announced in November 2014 that after many years, it would restore the short intercontinental air connection between Gibraltar and Tangier in March 2015 on a twice weekly basis. Unlike the previous Marrakech flights, these would be operated by RAM for themselves, and offer connecting flights to their Casablanca hub and onwards, and be available via normal sales channels. [20]

Overnight work to resurface the runway started on the evening of 4 September 2015, and the work was completed in January 2016.

In November 2015, easyJet announced that it would begin a new route to Manchester Airport twice weekly, making this the first time two airlines have competed against each other on the Manchester-Gibraltar route. The new route commenced on 3 July 2016. During the same month, Monarch announced a new route from Gibraltar to London Gatwick, beginning on 1 May running four times a week. [21]

On 2 October 2017, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) confirmed that Monarch Airlines had ceased operations with immediate effect and had entered administration. All flights were cancelled. Monarch operated about a third of the airports movements prior to shutting down.

On 12 July 2018, easyJet announced a twice-weekly new route to London-Luton, restoring the link between the two airports. The restored route started in December 2018. [22]

On 11 December 2019, easyJet announced a new twice-weekly service to Edinburgh, making it the first time that Gibraltar had a direct link to Scotland. The route was due to start in March 2020, [23] but was delayed until 5 June 2021 by the COVID-19 pandemic. EasyJet resumed services from Manchester on 20 July, Gatwick on 25 July, and Bristol on 4 August. The airline's service to Luton was axed as a result of the pandemic, and from increased competition by Wizz Air who began serving the route in December 2020.

Business development 2020–current

In October 2020, Hélity announced a new route to Málaga beginning 30 October, with flights operating three times a week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. [24] The service ceased in November due to Covid restrictions.

On 4 February 2021, Eastern Airways announced two new routes to Southampton and Birmingham from 24 and 28 May. This marked the first time that Eastern Airways were to operate scheduled flights from the airport, as well as the first ever route to Southampton and the resumption of the Birmingham service that was lost after Monarch's collapse in October 2017. [25] Both routes ceased in 2022.

June 2021 saw a new EasyJet route to Edinburgh. Other EasyJet routes being London Gatwick, London Luton, Manchester and Bristol. [26]

2023 saw EasyJet flying to London Gatwick, Manchester and Bristol.

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Panoramic photograph of Gibraltar International Airport in 2007, with time-lapse showing an aircraft take off.

Disputes regarding territory's status

The airport is located on the isthmus that connects Gibraltar with the rest of the Iberian Peninsula, and thus the country of Spain. Whether or not the airport's territory was ceded by the Treaty of Utrecht is disputed by Spain and the United Kingdom. [27] In the spring of 1815, Spain claims an epidemic of yellow fever struck Gibraltar, so that the British authorities built several barracks as field isolation in the neutral zone. On 20 April 1815, the Lt. Governor of Gibraltar, George Don, agreed with the general commander of the Campo de Gibraltar, General Don José María de Alós, that "a large proportion of the inhabitants [of Gibraltar] to [..] not [have] they suffered fever, temporarily established on the neutral ground, as close as circumstances permit, in front of this fortress".[ citation needed ]

Spain's continuing sovereignty dispute with the United Kingdom over the territory on which the airport stands (different from the generic one on Gibraltar itself) has seriously affected the airport's operations. On 2 December 1987, an agreement was signed between the governments of the United Kingdom and Spain to allow the joint civil use of the airport. [28] The agreement foresaw the building of a new terminal in the neighbouring Spanish municipality of La Línea de la Concepción adjacent to the northern side of the existing frontier. However, the agreement was blocked by the Government of Gibraltar, led from 1988 by Joe Bossano. As a result, the agreement was never implemented.

Since then, Spain successfully excluded Gibraltar from European-wide de-regulation initiatives, such as the Single European Sky programme, preventing direct links from Gibraltar to the European Union (EU), on the grounds that no regulation that somehow recognises the sovereignty of the United Kingdom over the Gibraltar peninsula may be implemented without a previous agreement on the airport.

Terminals

New airport civilian passenger terminal nearing completion in 2011 Gibraltar Airport New Airside.jpg
New airport civilian passenger terminal nearing completion in 2011

There is one passenger terminal at Gibraltar International. [29]

Old terminal

The original terminal at the airport was built in 1959, and refurbished in the late 1990s. For many years, it had been too small to cope with the number of passengers when two flights were scheduled to arrive and / or depart within a short space of time. The size of the terminal was 20,000 square metres (220,000 square feet), and had ten check-in desks, one baggage carousel, one security gate, and two departure gates. On 26 November 2011, arriving flights switched to the new terminal as the first phase of the new terminal opened. On 25 September 2012, the old terminal closed its doors as flight departures moved into the new terminal on 26 September 2012. The last flight to use it was easyJet flight EZY8904 to London-Gatwick. The old terminal building was demolished in February 2014.

New terminal

A new terminal was constructed at Gibraltar International due to increasing numbers of passengers. [30] Planning permission was announced in 2007, with construction of the new terminal beginning in 2009 and completed in 2011. The first phase of the new terminal opened on 26 November 2011 for arriving flights only. The second phase of the new terminal opened on 26 September 2012 when flight departures moved. The first flight to use the first phase was easyJet flight EZY7295 from Liverpool, and the first flight to use the second phase was British Airways flight BA491 to London Heathrow. The terminal's terrace was inaugurated by the Earl of Wessex, Prince Edward on 13 June 2012. [31]

This new terminal is 35,000 square metres (380,000 square feet), which is 15,000 square metres (160,000 square feet) larger than the old terminal. It has two baggage carousels and three departure gates, none of which are equipped with jet bridges. It has a passenger capacity of up to 1.5 million passengers per year. Retail services are also available in the terminal, and these include WH Smith, 36 North Bar, and Gibraltar Duty Free Stores. A new general aviation area has also been built inside the terminal to handle private aircraft.

Expansion

New road access (Kingsway)

Background

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Kingsway tunnel under construction in 2018

Since the construction of the airport runway across it in the 1940s, Winston Churchill Avenue - the main road in and out of Gibraltar - has crossed the airport runway. This has caused delays and tailbacks as the road closes when aircraft take off and land (more than 15 times per day). [32] Consequently, a bypass tunnel was proposed, to allow traffic to pass under the runway at all times. [33]

Construction

In the late 2000s, a project to build a tunnel and a four-lane diversion road was approved by the Government of Gibraltar. The construction contract was signed in November 2008 by Chief Minister Sir Peter Caruana. [34] With a cost around £30 million, the project was planned for completion in 2010. [35]

Construction on the project began in December 2008. [35] By the contracted completion date, only 25% of the project had been completed. [35] In July 2011, the Government terminated the contract alleging the contractor Obrascón Huarte Lain (OHL) had failed to comply with the contract. [35] In May 2012, the contractor took the Government to court, alleging wrongful termination of the contract, and sought £6.5 million in damages. [36] In April 2014, the High Court of Justice of England and Wales ordered the contractor to pay the completion costs of the project. [36]

In June 2016, the Government and OHL reached a settlement, with OHL agreeing to complete the project at a price of £24 million, with a completion date of November 2018. [37] Further construction delays owing to sub-standard work [38] meant that the tunnel was not handed over to the Government until summer 2022. [39] Testing and commissioning of various tunnel systems followed, including working with emergency services. [40] The final cost of the project was £34 million. [41]

On 31 March 2023, at one minute past midnight, the new road and tunnel access route to Gibraltar was opened to the public, and vehicular access across the runway was closed. [42] The road was named 'Kingsway' in an inauguration ceremony by Chief Minister Fabian Picardo the day before. [43] [44] The naming of the road had been approved by Charles III. [45]

Kingsway

Kingsway passes under the new terminal and towards the eastern edge of the runway, at which point, it passes through a 350-metre (1,150 ft) tunnel [46] under it and connects via a roundabout with Devil's Tower Road on the opposite side of the runway. After the tunnel on the north side of the runway, Kingsway runs parallel to the frontier, passing under the air terminal fly-over section. The road then branches into two, with one road leading to the loop and the frontier, and another leading to the Air Terminal, North Front, and Winston Churchill Avenue. [47] A dedicated tunnel for use by pedestrians, cyclists and e-scooters is also provided on a higher elevation alongside the road tunnel. The total length of the new road is approximately 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi). [46]

Although the road across the runway remains in place, for exceptional, specific, or emergency use, it is not available for routine day-to-day use by private vehicular traffic. Pedestrians are not required to travel via the new tunnel, and can continue to cross the runway.

New car parks

A number of car parks are being built at Gibraltar International during its expansion, including a new 220-space, three-story car park located at the east of the new terminal. Another new car park is to be built by Eastern Beach, and two multi-storey facilities will also be built on Devil's Tower Road. [47]

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled flights at Gibraltar Airport:

AirlinesDestinations
British Airways London–Heathrow [48]
EasyJet Bristol, London–Gatwick, Manchester

Statistics

passengersaircraft
movements		cargo
(tonnes)
2008378,6033,958624
2009371,2314,290313
2010305,3253,346296
2011383,0133,628292
2012387,2193,490314
2013383,8763,564352
2014415,1033,730384
2015444,3364,100408
2016548,2304,968404
2017571,1844,888302
2018440,9983,868192
2019491,4054,382203
2020186,0692,290175
2021262,5223,270111
2022446,1873,868121
Source: Gibraltar Airport Statistics [49]
Busiest routes from Gibraltar to the UK (2020) [50]
rankairporttotal
passengers		change
2019 / 20
1 London–Heathrow 87,632Decrease2.svg 46%
2 London-Gatwick 45,779Decrease2.svg 76%
3 Manchester 24,796Decrease2.svg 51%
4 Bristol 17,335Decrease2.svg 65%
5 London-Luton 6,979Decrease2.svg 73%

Accidents and incidents

The runway featured in a BBC Top Gear special, and was also used by Jaguar in the launch of a new range. A custom painted Boeing 737 was used in conjunction with a fleet of the cars. The airport appeared on Channel 5's series, Gibraltar: Britain in the Sun , which was broadcast from June to July 2013.

The airstrip and the Four Corners Border crossing feature at the end of Carol Reed's 1963 production of The Running Man . Several 'takes' were shot as Remick and Harvey chase each other, firstly through the border and later as the light aircraft took off from the eastern end of the runway, narrowly missing an RAF Halifax aircraft which was supposed to be taking off too. [56]

See also

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