Malaga Airport Guide

Malaga Airport, also known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso Airport is one of the busiest Airports in Spain. It handled nearly 13 million passengers and operated 119,807 flights in 2008. The Airport has two interconnected terminals with 90% of its passengers arriving at Terminal 2. A third terminal is due to open this year, as well as a second runway in 2010.


Malaga Airport is located only 8 km from the city centre of Malaga and only 5 km north of Torremolinos and boasts excellent communication links to the whole of the Costa del Sol. For those of you arriving, you will find the usual forms of onward transportation, to be expected at a major airport, that is: trains, buses and taxis.


For those of you travelling to depart from the airport, It is quite normal for construction work to be underway on the route to and from the airport, so it is always wise to leave sufficient time for the journey.


Malaga Airport (AGP) is serviced by flights from over 120 airports around the world. Of those airports there are 17 in Spain alone and 23 emanating from the UK.


Malaga Airport is probably the most highly used airport for people flying to the popular town of Marbella. Even though Marbella is about the same distance from Gibraltar, the choice of flights from Jerez Airport is very limited.