| Airport - Travel news and info; Construction of the Murcia International Airport in Corvera is expected to start in the first quarter of 2008.
The new airport will be constructed between the villages of Corvera and
Valladolises. The cost of the project is estimated to be 256.9 million euros.
This sum will include the construction cost, land expropriation and provision
of services. During construction some 20,000 jobs will be created with another
1,300 permanent posts once flights start. The forecast usage for the opening
year is five million passengers, with this rising to nine million in 2015 and
more than 14 million in 2030.
The number of international passengers arriving at Murcia-San Javier
airport increased by 37 per cent in September.
And a total of 1.25 million international visitors landed at Murcia-San Javier
airport in the first eight months of the year – a rise of more than 24 per
cent on last year’s figures.
Foreign tourists spent 343 million euros in the Murcia Region in the first
seven months of the year, according to the regional government.
Project for Murcia new International Airport
Construction is expected to start in the first quarter of next year
The project for Murcia’s new International Airport in Corvera was formally registered at the Development Ministry on Monday
10th Dec, by the Murcia government’s general secretary for public works, José María Bernabé.
It means, that if all goes according to plan, the first plane will take off
from the runway in 2010. |
