![]() The cancellation of the route, which resulted in the loss of 22 jobs, was the result of a breakdown in trade agreements with Ryanair, and financial difficulties being faced by the airport. The airline service ran three flights per week from London Stansted, until its discontinuation on 11 November that year, having flown approximately 22,000 passengers into or from the airport. Air Nostrum also operated flights to Barcelona, Gran Canaria, and briefly to Lanzarote.Ĭiudad Real Airport began handling international flights in June 2010, with its first international service launched by Ryanair. History Operations (2008–2012) įollowing its opening in 2009, the airport's first flights were to Palma de Mallorca, run by Air Berlin until it discontinued this service on. In addition, a 300 m (980 ft) long foot bridge was built to connect the terminal to the nearby Madrid–Seville high-speed rail line, towards a site for a railway station construction of this transportation link was never started, though had such a project been undertaken and completed, it would have made Ciudad Real Airport the first in Spain to be linked to the AVE rail network, with travel times to the closest cities (Madrid and Córdoba) of 50–60 minutes. The airport is linked by road to the A-41 motorway.Īs part of its planned expansion, the airport was to feature a maintenance area, a heliport and an industrial zone of over 8 km 2 (3 sq mi). One part of the airport was designed with facilities to cater for private flights and sport flights. The passenger terminal was designed so that it could process two million passengers a year, as well as a maximum of ten million passengers a year if additional modules were added, while its cargo facilities were designed to handle a maximum of 47,000 tonnes a year. Its design was to enable the airport to accept all forms of commercial airliners, including the Airbus A380. The airport features a single runway, 4,100 m (13,500 ft) long and 60 m (200 ft) wide, making it one of the longest in Europe. It remained closed for seven years until reopening in September 2019, however without any scheduled passenger traffic. ![]() Operations at the site ran for three years until April 2012, when its previous management company filed for bankruptcy and went into receivership, after the last flight operator, low-cost airline Vueling, withdrew its last route from the airport. ![]() It was featured in a British television series called Top Gear and gained popularity later on, thanks to the show (season 20, episode 3). Constructed at a cost of €1.1 billion, it was opened in 2009, when it became the first private international airport in Spain. Ciudad Real International Airport or CRIA ( IATA: CQM, ICAO: LERL), previously known as Central Airport CR, Don Quijote Airport and South Madrid Airport, is an international airport and long-storage facility situated south of Ciudad Real in Spain. ![]()
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