Ciudad Real Central Airport
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Ciudad Real Central Airport Aeropuerto Central Ciudad Real |
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| Airport type | Private | ||||||||||
| Operator | CR Aeropuertos | ||||||||||
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Ciudad Real, Puertollano, Madrid and Seville |
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| Location | Ciudad Real, Spain | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 636 m / 2,086 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 38°51′23″N 003°58′12″W / 38.85639°N 3.97000°WCoordinates: 38°51′23″N 003°58′12″W / 38.85639°N 3.97000°W | ||||||||||
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Ciudad Real Central Airport (IATA: CQM, ICAO: LERL), previously known as Don Quijote Airport and South Madrid Airport, is an international airport south of Ciudad Real in Spain. It is located over 200 km (120 mi) from the centre of Madrid and next to the A-41 motorway.
The airport is bordered by the Madrid–Seville high-speed rail line, and plans have been approved (not yet executed) to open a passenger AVE terminal making it the first Spanish airport to be linked to the AVE network. Currently the closest AVE stations are Ciudad Real or Puertollano, a short 15 minute drive. From there the airport is 50 minutes away, via AVE, from either central Madrid or Córdoba, and less than two hours from Seville and Málaga.
It was the first international private airport in Spain, costing €1.1bn to build, and operations started in 2009. In April 2012, the airport was closed after just three years in operation, its management company having gone into receivership. It has not received scheduled flights since December 2011, when low-cost airline Vueling withdrew its last route.
The current Airport License, although temporarily suspended, is valid until December 2018. The new owners have requested AESA (Agencia Española de Seguridad Aérea) to review the facility and to reinstate the License submitting all the required info and initiating the repair works in July 2016.
The airport has a single runway, 4,100 m (13,500 ft) long and 60 m (200 ft) wide, one of the longest in Europe and able to accept the largest commercial and cargo airplanes, including the Airbus A380.
The passenger terminal can handle a maximum of ten million passengers a year, and its cargo facilities a maximum of 47,000 tonnes a year. A 300 m (980 ft) long foot bridge was built to connect the passenger terminal to the nearby Madrid–Seville high-speed rail line, but no railway station was ever built.
The Airport has been planned as a major logistics and cargo center due to the connectivity to the Spanish highway and railway network and the singular location of the Airport.
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