Malaga Airport Plans

The agreement was finally signed in September for work on the second runway at Malaga Airport to commence. It will be built almost parallel to the existing one and will be able to handle larger aircraft like the Boeing 747 and new Airbus. It is expected to take 28 months to build and is due for completion at the end of December 2009. A tunnel will be built under the new runway to house the current Malaga-Fuengirola raliway line and new AVE high speed train which is due to run from Malaga along the western Costa del Sol. This service is due to be operational by February 2010.

When the work is completed the airport will be able to deal with 20 million passengers a year. It currently handles 13 million and this will increase its current capacity of 37 operations every hour to 72."


So the railway is not that far away in 2010!