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ma sono corretti questi dati???
Alicante che fa piu di Valencia???[?][?]
mi sembra stranissimo!
- Alicante has 2,2 million inhabitants in the airport catchment area (75km), 4th in Spain, Valencia has 2,5 million.
- Alicante monopolizes the 70% of tourism in the Land of Valencia. The main touristic city in the region is Benidorm, 40km far from Alicante.
- Alicante is the region of Spain with more % of inmigrants, around 22%, it is usually to see towns around Alicante with more than 50% of foreign people. Alicante has about 400,000 legal inmigrants, in Spain only MAD and BCN hold such huge amount of inmigrants. Figures of illegal inmigrants are unknown. There is an important "floating population" due to illegal inmigrants, europeans who buy a house and live there some dates, and tourists. In fact, Alicante holds the main colonies in Spain for the next countries:
Citazione:
Alemania
Bélgica
Hungría
Irlanda
Luxemburgo
Malta
Países Bajos
Reino Unido
República Eslovaca
Suecia
Islandia
Liechtenstein
Noruega
Suiza
Argelia
All these people usually fly a lot.
- That's why Alicante airport is more important, in fact is considered 1st category airport (like MAD, BCN, PMI, AGP, LPA and TFS) by AENA (spanish authorities). Valencia is considered 2nd category airport.
Evolution:
VLC_____YEAR______ALC
1.882.472 1998 4.868.020
1.995.882 1999 5.395.057
2.261.943 2000 6.038.266
2.301.191 2001 6.542.121
2.138.926 2002 7.010.322
2.432.126 2003 8.195.454
3.111.951 2004 8.571.144
4.639.314 2005 8.795.705
4.969.120 2006 8.893.720
5.929.916 2007 9.120.819
- Alicante has been saturated some years (2003-2006) and some traffic was diverted to Murcia, a little terminal 2 was finished last year, that's why traffic is growing again and Ryanair established a base. A big terminal 3 is being built (it will be finished in 2010, hope) to let the airport receive 20-25 million passengers, a second runway is being requested.
PS: I work in Alicante airport, no doubt
