New Terminal at Malaga Airport
The King of Spain is officially opening the new Malaga Airport terminal on 15th March.
The new terminal has a surface area of 385,000 sqm and has cost an estimated €320M. It will be able to handle 9,000 passengers and 7,500 pieces of luggage per hour. It will have 179 check in desks: 48 departure gates (22 remote and 26 with travelator walkways).
The new Malaga Airport terminal will offer six thousand square metres of bars, cafeterias and restaurants and 2,800 square metres of shops.
Bars and restaurants will include: Soho Coffee, Caviar House, Caffe Ritazza, Pizza Hut, Burger King, O’Leary’s, Starbucks, La Moraga Airport, Whopper Bar, VIPs, Upper Crust, Gambrinus, Dehesa Santa María, Café y Té, La Lechera and Guinness.
Caviar House and Prunier are aimed at high end dining and gourmet travellers, while at the other end of the scale the Whopper Bar is a new concept recently launched by Burger King with only two branches currently open in Florida and Munich. La Moraga Airport is a dining project being led by the local gourmet chef Dani García who is famous for using liquid nitrogen to create a crispy skin around a piece of Iberian ham. He is aiming to recreate his incredibly popular tapas bars in Malaga and Puerto Banus in an airport environment.
The shopping area will have retail outlets for Adidas, Adolfo Domínguez, Ferrari, National Geographic, Cottet watches and spectacles and a Librería Luces bookshop. The National Geographic Store will be the first ever to be located in an airport.
Two new road links are being added: via the A-7 motorway to the south, and the future ring road to the north which will be joined to the national MA-21 road and two car parks will be opened with space for more than 3,500 vehicles.
The second runway is expected to be ready for the end of 2010 and will almost double fight capacity from 37 to 72 operations per hour. There will also be a train terminus in the airport building where you will be able to catch trains to Malaga City Centre and Fuengirola, with future plans including trains along the Costa del Sol as far as Estepona and an inland high- speed AVE connection to Seville.
Trial testing is currently taking with aover 2,000 “volunteer passengers” scheduled to check it out and 4,000 suitcases being used to keep the simulations as close to reality as possible.
New Car Park at Malaga Airport
The new car park is almost finished with the access roads and tunnel running along one end eventually being used as an internal link between the north and south access points . There is just one more placement to be made that will tie up the whole system and enable vehicles to move throughout the complex.
For more information on the current car parking at Malaga Airport click on this link,.
New Runway and Railway Station at Malaga Airport
Work on the second runway is 75% complete with cleaning and draining almost finished in the area close to the Guadalhorce River .
The new railway line will be dug under this river with the second runway and the station that will be located in the new terminal will house the AVE train in the future.
We also provide information about current train services at Malaga Airport.
