Gibraltar International Airport

Gibraltar International Airport

Gibraltar International Airport is new and impressive. A beautiful building for your flights to and from Gibraltar with a modern airport store for your guidebooks, last-minute Gibraltar souvenirs and a wonderful cafe providing excellent cuisine.

Gibraltar International Airport or North Front Airport (IATA: GIB, ICAO: LXGB) is the civilian airport that serves the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. The runway is owned by the Ministry of Defence for use by the Royal Air Force as RAF Gibraltar. Civilian operators use the civilian-operated terminal. National Air Traffic Services hold the contract for the provision of air navigation services at the airport.

Winston Churchill Avenue (the main road heading towards the land border with Spain) intersects the airport runway and consequently has to be closed every time a plane lands or departs. The History Channel programme Most Extreme Airports ranked the airport the fifth most extreme airport in the world. It is exposed to strong cross winds around the rock and across the Bay of Algeciras, making landings in winter particularly uncomfortable. Monarch Airlines is the largest operator at Gibraltar International, operating flights to Birmingham, London Gatwick, London Luton, and Manchester Airport.