Burgos Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Burgos Airport

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caption = Burgos Airport
IATA = RGS
ICAO = LEBG
type = Public
operator = Aena
city-served = Burgos
location = Burgos, Spain
elevation-m = 903
elevation-f = 2,963
coordinates = coord|42|21|27|N|03|36|49|W|type:airport
metric-elev = yes
metric-rwy = yes
r1-number = 04/22
r1-length-m = 2,100
r1-length-f = 6,890
r1-surface = Asphalt

Burgos Airport Airport codes|RGS|LEBG, also known as Villafría, is an airport located convert|4|km|mi from the central business district of the city of Burgos, Spain.

Access

Public transport

There is an urban bus that provide airport service to and from the center of Burgos. The route begins in Plaza de España and stops in the following streets: Belorado, Segovia, Avenida de Castilla y León, San Roque, Glorieta de Logroño, San Bruno, Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Real y Antigua, Vitoria 252, Alcalde Martín Cobos and from here to the airport terminal. The route from the airport to the center will be on a reverse route with stops in the next points: Martín Cobos, Vitoria 259, Real y Antigua, Vitoria 163, San Bruno, Antigua Academia de Ingenieros, San Roque, Avenida de Castilla y León, Avenida de la Paz 51, Antonio Machado and Plaza de España.

The route schedules depends on the time of the flight; the bus will depart from Plaza España to the airport an hour and half before a flight and from the airport to the center half hour after the arrival of a flight.

Car and taxi

Burgos Airport is located to the north east of the province capital city, on a broad plain between the neighbourhoods of Gamonal and Villafría de Burgos, where the N-120 road and A-1 highway (also called ring road BU-30) meet in a great roundabout. From here to the airport building, there is a convert|650|m|mi long road that ends opposite the terminal building. It takes a 10 minutes ride by car or taxi to get the city centre. A taxi ride cost approximately € 10 or slightly more.

There is a parking garage with a capacity of 188 cars, some semi-underground, for passengers coming with their own car.

History

The origins of Villafría aerodrome date back to the 1920's, when a small aeronautical detachment was established in Gamonal, which served its purpose until it became too small to cope with the progresses in aeronautics. After this, the government of King Alfonso XII created the national Villafría Burgos airport by Royal Decree on 19 July 1927. On 3 January 1928, the Cabinet approved the construction of Burgos airport and, on the 15th of the same month, Villafría Town Hall agreed to cede the field called Gorreñal to the Superior Council of Military Aeronautics for the airport to be built there. As from 1936, the fields of Gamonal and Villafría joined their facilities, which went on to form a single aeronautical infrastructure.

On 8 August 1941, Burgos City Hall agreed to purchase a country estate of almost 300 thousand square metres that formed part of the old Monte de Gamonal. On 10th November, the mayor offered this land to the Air Ministry. On 6 December, a decree granted the urgent installation of services and work to be carried out on the fields that it was trying to link.

In fact, the Air Ministry was founded in Burgos after the civil war, when the Military Aeronautical Service forces created by King Alfonso XII in 1910 were modernised. These in turn were inherited from the Military Service Air Station, that belonged at the time to the Military Engineering Corp, established by the same monarch.

On 21 July 1949, the University Air Militia began its activities, after which 22 classes would form in its facilities, the offices of the latter being handed over in 1971. Villafría airdrome was opened to civil traffic in the autumn of that year. In 1973, what is now the Burgos Royal Flying Club was set up. Since then, and during the summer, the airport has hosted different teaching and training activities.

In August 1995, the Ministry of Defence signed an agreement with Burgos City Council making the Villafría aerodrome facilities exclusively for civil use. On 20 October 2000 the aerodrome was declared a site of general interest, directly managed by the central government, through Aena.

On 3 July 2008, the airport open its doors to commercial flight operations. In order to do this, Aena has undertaken a series of measures, including the construction of a new terminal building with parking facilities, a multi-service building, a new runway and an aircraft parking apron.

Airlines and destinations

*Iberia
**operated by Air Nostrum (Barcelona, Paris-Orly (begins October 26))

External links

* [http://www.aena.es/csee/Satellite?cid=1047546622026&pagename=subHome&SiteName=LEBG&c=Page&Language=EN_GB Burgos Airport (official site)] en icon
* [http://www.aena.es/csee/ccurl/LE_AD_2_LEBG_en.pdf Burgos Airport information (AENA - AIP España)]
*WAD|LEBG (NOT ACTUALIZED!)