Granada Airport
There is quite a bit of expansion work going on. Before you get to the airport 4 or 5 car hire companies have opened up new offices, a private long term car park has opened and a couple of petrol stations have also opened up.In the last 12 months both Ryanair and Monarch have started to fly into Granada Airport from the UK with more routes planned for the future and they are getting the infrastructure ready now.
There are five main Granada airport car hire companies all of them offer a good range of cars and it may well be possible to rent the car from this airport and return it to one of the others in Andalucia. The companies are: Avis at Granada Airport - Europcar at Granada Airport, Goldcar Europa at Granada Airport, Hertz at Granada Airport and National Atesa at Granada Airport.
There are direct flights between Granada and the Spanish Cities of Barcelona, Girona, Madrid, Melilla and Palma de Mallorca along with the Milan, Paris and Rome in Europe.
The Granada Airport arrivals hall is at the opposite end of the terminal building and as you go through the exit you will find the taxis and bus stop. Arrivals are handled on the ground floor of the passenger terminal and has two doors. The general arrivals area has a capacity for up to 595 passengers with a baggage reclaim area where there are three luggage carousels, the national police, civil guard and customs. This area leads into the arrivals hall, which has a capacity of up to 399 persons and has car hire offices, cash machines, toilets and a waiting area with seats.
The airport terminal building is on one level with the departures area to the right and the arrivals area to the left. In the middle are the check in desks, about 11 in total. After check in it is best to stay in the public area of the airport. You can get a coffee, sandwich or cold drink at a small coffee bar just past security. Granada have also upgraded the land-side facilities with a new and much improved catering service with a larger seating/tabled area and reasonably priced hot and cold food.
Federico García Lorca Granada-Jaén Airport is located 17 kilometres from Granada and 106 kilometres from Jaén. Granada Airport Taxis are pretty cheap, the trip into the city centre costs about ?17, the Alhambra ?25, Albaicin ?23 and it will cost you around ?63 to go up into the ski resort the Sierra Nevada Mountains. You will always be able to find a taxi just outside the main arrivals hall at Granada Airport.
The passenger numbers at the airport have definitely increased in the last few years. Back in 2002 just under 500,000 people passed through the airport, but last year (2007) the passenger numbers had increased to 1,467,590 with 21,820 flioght operations. In Spanish the airport is known as Aeropuerto de Granada. Granada Airport is an interesting airport to travel to and gives good access to some unknown parts of Andalucia. Apart form the City of Granada and Alhambra Palace, from here you are within easy reach of the Costa Tropical with towns such as Motril, Almunecar, Salobrena, La Herradura.
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