Gibraltar Airport

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Gibraltar airport is located about 2 Kilometres from the town centre adjacent to the frontier with Spain. There is a regular bus service to the town and taxis are available from a taxi rank opposite the airport.

If visiting Spain, it's easier to walk across the frontier a few hundred yards away and collect your hire car in La Linea. Friend and relatives from Spain meeting passengers are advised to park in La Linea. Porters with trolleys are available to help but expensive at about 8 pounds. Taxi's to Spain are available from the Taxi rank on the Spanish Side of the border.

The airport (not the terminal) is operated by the British Royal Air Force, so in the summer the aeroplanes are serviced by men in khaki shorts rather than blue overalls. All vehicle and pedestrian traffic to the town has to cross the runway. Safety barriers and warning lights stop visitors from straying in front of approaching aircrafts. The author has witnessed a taxiing aircraft stop for an old man on a bicycle much to the spectators amusement, and the police man's frustration.

There are no telescopic boarding utilities, passengers walk across the tarmac like the good old days. Those arriving at Gibraltar are treated to a magnificent first view of the Rock from the top of the airplane steps. This has to be better than the usual carpet and plastic that greets most airline passengers today.

Friends and relatives can wave goodbye from the first floor café which has an open air roof terrace overlooking most aeroplanes. There is a very special family atmosphere here rarely seen in this day and age as passengers are welcomed home.

Following a historic agreement between Britain, Spain and Gibraltar the first flight from Madrid to Gibraltar took place on the 15th December 2006 with full Spanish Media interests. The flight an Iberia A319 of 144 seats with 60 paying passengers as well as officials and journalists. The officials included Spanish secretary of State for foreign affairs, Bernardino León. This was the first time a Spanish government minister had visited Gibraltar since 1954. The officials who were met by Gibraltar's Chief Minister Peter Caruana and many Mayors from the towns of the Campo de Gibraltar were treated to lunch at the Rock hotel and a tour of the Rock.

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British Airways Operates scheduled flights on a daily basis to London Heathrow and Gatwick.

Monarch Scheduled offer daily flights to Luton (North of London). We now also fly to Manchester.

Iberia Scheduled daily return flight from Madrid Barajas Terminal 4 to Gibraltar.

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