Málaga-Costa del Sol Airport

Málaga-Costa del Sol is Spain's fourth-busiest airport and Western Europe's premier leisure-market hub, handling a record 24.6M passengers (2024). Its scale is entirely driven by Northern European holiday flows to the Costa del Sol coastline — the airport's seasonal British, German, Scandinavian, and Benelux traffic represents one of the most concentrated origin-destination leisure markets on earth, with UK passengers alone exceeding 6M annually. No flag-carrier hub operates at AGP; instead the airport is dominated by low-cost and charter capacity. Ryanair holds the largest share, Vueling bases its Andalusian operation here, and easyJet, Jet2, TUI, Eurowings, Norwegian, and Wizz Air each run substantial seasonal fleets. British Airways, Lufthansa, and KLM provide year-round legacy connectivity, and Delta and United operate seasonal transatlantic service from New York and Atlanta. Across 64 airlines the airport serves 157 destinations on 303 scheduled routes, with a peak summer daily movement count exceeding 800. Two parallel runways handle movements: primary 13/31 at 10,499 ft (3,200 m) opened 2012 and the original 12/30 at 9,022 ft (2,750 m), separated by a distance that allows simultaneous approaches — a capacity unlock that doubled peak-hour movement capability to 60 per hour. Terminal 3, opened 2010 on a 250,000 sq m (2.7M sq ft) footprint, consolidated all international and Schengen operations under a single airside with 20 jet bridges; the former T1 and T2 handle regional and charter overflow. Phase 2 expansion approved in 2024 will add a satellite pier and widebody-capable gates by 2029. Elevation is just 53 ft (16 m), placing AGP among Europe's lowest-elevation major airports.