Seville Airport

Seville Airport Aeropuerto de Sevilla
IATA: SVQ ICAO: LEZL
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner/Operator	Aena
Serves	Seville, Andalusia, Spain
Focus city for	Ryanair Vueling
Elevation  AMSL	34 m / 112 ft
Coordinates	37°25′05″N005°53′56″W / 37.41806°N 5.89889°W / 37.41806; -5.89889
Website	aena.es
Map
Seville Airport Location within Andalusia Show map of Andalusia Seville Airport Seville Airport (Spain) Show map of Spain
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 09/27 3,360 11,024 Concrete/Asphalt
Statistics (2023)
Passengers 8,071,524 Passenger change 22–23 19.1% Aircraft movements 64,774 Movements change 22–23 7.3% Cargo (t) 10,914 Cargo change 22-23 10.3%
Source: AENA

Seville Airport( IATA : SVQ, ICAO : LEZL) ^[1] (Spanish : Aeropuerto de Sevilla) ^[2] 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 19 destinations in Spain and 55 destinations around the rest of Europe and Northern Africa, and handled 8,071,524 passengers in 2023. ^[3] It serves as a base for the low-cost carriers Vueling and Ryanair. ^[4] It is 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) east of central Seville, and some 110 kilometres (68 mi) north-east of Costa de la Luz. Seville Airport is also known as San Pablo Airport to distinguish it from the older Tablada Aerodrome, which was in operation as a military aerodrome until 1990.

Facilities

Seville Airport is capable of handling ten million passengers a year. There are 23 stands (all of which are self-maneuvering) 16 of which are remote. The airport has 42 check-in desks and 19 boarding gates. It was expanded in 1991 for the Seville Expo '92. In 2013, a new five-story car parking building was opened. In 2019, renovations to increase the airport's capacity began and were completed in 2022. These renovations increased the airport's handling capacity from six million passengers a year to its current capacity of ten million passengers a year.

In the airport grounds, there is an Airbus factory (San Pablo Sur), an Airbus maintenance center (San Pablo Norte) and a Ryanair maintenance center.

History

In 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 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. ^[5]

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 750 by 500 m (2,460 by 1,640 ft).

In April 1927, Unión Aérea Española established the air service Madrid-Seville-Lisbon. In February 1929, the Seville airport project was approved and in March, the Tablada aerodrome was opened to flights and air traffic. It was decided that this service would cease once the planned airport was constructed.

In 1929, the first flight was operated between Madrid and Seville and in 1930, this was extended to the Canary Islands. In February 1931, the service between Berlin and Barcelona was extended to Seville. In December 1933, LAPE began a service between Seville and the Canary Islands.

During the Spanish Civil War, Seville became the arrival point for African troops, whilst Iberia served air transport with flights between Tetuán-Seville-Vitoria, Seville-Salamanca and Seville-Larache-Las Palmas.

In September 1945, work began on the new Seville transoceanic airport in the land area that occupied the old blimp mooring station, which received the last flight in 1936. ^[6] The work started with construction of runways 05/23, 02/20 and 09/27. One year later, it was classified as a customs point and runways 05/23 and 02/20 were asphalted. In 1948, a goniometer was installed, the runway lighting was completed, and the runways became known as 04/22, 18/36 and 09/27. In 1956, runway 09/27 was extended and runway 18/36 became a taxiway. Tablada was relegated to serve as a military aerodrome, until its closure in 1990. ^[7]

In 1957, works were carried out on the terminal building and the control tower. Seville Airport was then included in the Spanish American Agreement for the installation of a supplies base. The facilities were developed near the threshold of 04, rendering the runway out of service.

In 1965, an Instrument Landing System was installed. Between 1971 and 1975, the terminal area was renovated, the apron was extended, a new terminal building was constructed and new access roads were developed.^{[ citation needed ]}

In 1989, with a focus on the Seville Expo '92, the apron was extended, and a new access from the national motorway N-IV was opened; a new terminal building and a new control tower to the south of the runway were also built. The old terminal was repurposed as a cargo terminal. On 31 July, the new installations were inaugurated.

A program designed to cope with rapid passenger growth and increase the airport's capacity to 10 million passengers per year began in 2019 and was finished in 2022. ^[8] The terminal building was enlarged and some of the old facilities were renovated, and the power station was reformed to cope with future enlargements of the airport.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Seville Airport:

Airlines	Destinations
Aegean Airlines	Seasonal: Athens
Air Europa	Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife–North
Air France	Paris–Charles de Gaulle [9]
Austrian Airlines	Vienna [10]
British Airways	London–Gatwick [11]
easyJet	Geneva, London–Gatwick
Edelweiss Air	Zürich
Iberia	Almería, Madrid, Melilla, Valencia Seasonal: Funchal (begins 9 July 2024), [12] Lanzarote
Lufthansa	Frankfurt, Munich
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca [13]
Ryanair	Alicante, Barcelona, Beauvais, Bergamo, Birmingham, [14] [15] Bologna, Bordeaux, Budapest, Cagliari, Catania, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Cork, [16] Dublin, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Hahn, [14] Ibiza, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Krakow, Lanzarote, Lisbon, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Malta, Manchester, Marrakesh, Marseille, Milan–Malpensa, Nantes, Naples, Nuremberg, Palma de Mallorca, Pisa, Porto, Prague, [17] Rabat, Rome–Ciampino, Santander, [18] Santiago de Compostela, Tangier, Tenerife–North, Tenerife–South, Toulouse, Treviso, Turin, Valencia, Vienna, Vitoria, Weeze Seasonal: Bari, [19] Billund, Brive (begins 1 June 2024), Luxembourg, [14] Menorca, Tétouan, [14] Trapani, Trieste
Scandinavian Airlines	Seasonal: Stockholm–Arlanda [20]
TAP Air Portugal	Lisbon
Transavia	Amsterdam, Brussels, [21] Eindhoven, Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes, Paris–Orly
Volotea	Asturias, Bilbao, [22] San Sebastián, Santander
Vueling	Asturias, Barcelona, Bilbao, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Palma de Mallorca, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Rome–Fiumicino, Santiago de Compostela, Tenerife–North, Valencia Seasonal: Brussels, [23] London–Gatwick [24]
Wizz Air	Bucharest–Otopeni, [25] Rome–Fiumicino, Warsaw–Chopin

Statistics

Seville Airport in 1946

Check-in area

Gate area prior to its 2022 overhaul

Cargo Terminal

Busiest routes

Rank	City	Passengers (2022)	Passengers (2023)	Change	Carriers
1	Barcelona	927,226	1,011,777	09.1%	Ryanair, Vueling
2	London	413,976	566,427	036.8%	easyJet, Ryanair, British Airways
3	Paris	496,188	517,692	04.3%	Ryanair, Transavia France, Vueling, Air France
4	Majorca	430,415	480,256	011.6%	Ryanair, Vueling
5	Madrid	386,554	452,666	017.1%	Iberia Express
6	Bilbao	308,737	382,254	023.8%	Vueling, Volotea
7	Tenerife	275,990	313,824	013.7%	Ryanair, Vueling
8	Gran Canaria	260,097	279,271	07.4%	Ryanair, Vueling
9	Valencia	196,671	258,865	031.6%	Ryanair, Vueling
10	Santiago de Compostela	182,195	228,104	025.2%	Ryanair, Vueling

Passengers and movements

	Number of passengers [note 1]	Number of movements [note 2]	Seville Airport passenger totals 1997–2020 (millions)
1997	1,542,761	19,992	Annual passenger traffic at SVQ airport. See Wikidata query.
1998	1,595,692	21,911
1999	1,688,539	23,275
2000	2,037,353	25,701
2001	2,205,117	38,848
2002	2,042,068	36,124
2003	2,269,565	38,483
2004	2,678,595	44,231
2005	3,521,112	55,423
2006	3,871,785	58,576
2007	4,507,264	65,092
2008	4,392,148	65,067
2009	4,051,392	55,601
2010	4,224,718	54,499
2011	4,959,359	56,021
2012	4,292,020	48,520
2013	3,687,714	41,591
2014	3,884,146	42,380
2015	4,308,845	46,086
2016	4,624,038	45,838
2017	5,108,807	48,661
2018	6,380,483	57,913
2019	7,544,357	64,112
2020	2,315,610	33,633
2021	3,444,465	43,841
2022	6,779,453	60,363
2023	8,071,524	64,774
Source: AENA [26]

Ground transportation

Public transport

Urban Transport Line of Seville Airport Express connects the bus station Plaza de Armas, in the centre of the city with the airport. It has intermediate stops at strategic points of the city, including the AVE train station of Santa Justa. The whole trip takes approximately 40 minutes. Buses run from 04.30 till 00.45. ^[27]

Incidents and accidents

• On 17 October 1939 an Ala Littoria Savoia-Marchetti S.73 operating a flight with 17 to Melilla crashed near Málaga due to intense fog. The plane descended to have visibility and crashed into a hill. All passengers and 5 crew members were killed.
• On 18 December 1939 an Iberia Junkers Ju 52 M-CABA operating a flight with 10 from Tétouan crashed at sea during a storm. All passengers and crew were killed.
• On 12 October 1962 an Iberia Convair CV-440 operating a flight with 18 from Valencia Airport crashed while descending near the airport. All passengers and crew were killed.
• On 23 June 1998 an Iberia Boeing 727 operating a flight with 131 to Barcelona was hijacked. The hijacker told that there was a bomb in the plane and forced the crew to go to Tel Aviv, Israel. The plane landed in Valencia for refueling, while the Spanish National Police determined that the hijacker had a mental disorder and that there was no bomb on board. Some hours later the hijacker surrendered. No one was injured.
• On 18 March 2006 an Air Algérie Boeing 737-600 7T-VJQ operating flight 2652 with 107 from Tindouf broke his landing gear during landing and rolled over to the right side. There were 45 injured and the airport was closed for a day for clean-up. ^[28]
• On 20 April 2011 a Vueling Airbus A320-200 EC-GRH operating flight VY2220 with 150 from Barcelona to Seville aborted landing due to the nose gear stuck in a 90 degrees position the aircraft performed a low approach and the aircraft made a safe emergency landing on runway 27.^{[ citation needed ]}
• The 2015 Seville A400M crash took place near to the airport.

Notes

1. Number of passengers including domestic and international.
2. Number of movements represents total takeoffs and landings during that year.

References

1. "Official airport website, in English". Archived from the original on 1 March 2012. Retrieved 15 April 2023.
2. "Official airport website, in Spanish". Archived from the original on 9 November 2007. Retrieved 15 April 2023.
3. "El Aeropuerto de Sevilla crece un 19% en 2023 y supera los ocho millones de pasajeros - Aena.es". AENA. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
4. "Ryanair to open Seville base". examiner.ie. 22 July 2010.
5. "Historia del Aeródromo Militar de Tablada" [History of the Tablada Military Airfield]. ejercitodelaire.defensa.gob.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 September 2022.
6. "San Pablo cumple 80 años". Diario de Sevilla (in European Spanish). 11 July 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
7. "Un siglo de historia del acuartelamiento de Tablada". Diario de Sevilla (in European Spanish). 27 February 2020. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
8. S., R. (28 December 2022). "Aeropuerto de Sevilla: finalizan las obras de ampliación y reforma iniciadas en 2019". Diario de Sevilla (in European Spanish). Retrieved 1 January 2023.
9. "Air France adds Seville service from June 2020".
10. "Austrian Airlines Expands Touristic Program: In the Winter Flight Schedule to Santa Claus' Hometown Rovaniemi and the Flamenco City Sevilla". Austrian Airlines. 24 May 2023. Archived from the original on 8 June 2023.
11. "British Airways announces routes and starts selling seats for its new Gatwick short-haul subsidiary" (Press release). British Airways. 14 December 2021. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
12. "Iberia Adds Seville – Funchal Service in 3Q24". 7 November 2023.
13. "Royal Air Maroc Moves Seville Service Resumption to late-Dec 2022". AeroRoutes. Retrieved 15 April 2023.
14. "Ryanair".^{[ full citation needed ]}
15. Desouza, Naomi (24 June 2023). "New Birmingham Airport Ryanair routes announced - full list". Birminghamlive.
16. "Record summer schedule as Ryanair announces five new routes from Cork Airport". 15 December 2022.
17. s. r. o., Minion Interactive. "Nová linka z Prahy do Sevilly od Ryanairu". Zaletsi.cz.
18. "Sevilla tendrá este invierno más vuelos baratos con Ryanair y Vueling". 8 November 2022.
19. "Ryanair NW23 Network Changes – 17SEP23".
20. "SAS RETURNS TO AFRICA BY FLYING TO AGADIR THIS UPCOMING WINTER".
21. "Transavia breidt aantal zomerbestemmingen op Brussels Airport uit". 8 March 2023.
22. Liu, Jim. "Volotea outlines post-COVID 19 network expansion in S20". Routesonline. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
23. "Vueling start lijndienst van Brussel naar Sevilla". 3 March 2023.
24. "Vueling enfila la recuperación en 2022: Ofrece más de 320 rutas a 30 países". 19 January 2022.
25. Liu, Jim. "Wizz Air S20 new routes addition as of 09JUN20". Routesonline. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
26. "Estadísticas de tráfico aereo: Informes anuales". Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea.
27. "Airport Bus Timetable" (PDF). TUSSAM.es. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 June 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
28. "ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-6D6 7T-VJQ Sevilla Airport (SVQ)".

External links

Media related to San Pablo Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Current weather for LEZL at NOAA / NWS
• Accident history for SVQ at Aviation Safety Network