Málaga Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Málaga-Costa del Sol) is the main airport for the Costa del Sol in Spain. The airport is located eight kilometers southwest of Málaga and five kilometers north of Torremolinos. The airport is the largest of Andalusia’s four international airports. From here flights depart to more than 60 countries. It handled 13,590,803 passengers in 2007 and 12,922,403 in 2013 and 16,700,000 in 2018 (through October) The airport is managed by the Spanish state-owned company AENA. The airport has 2 runways. There are three passenger terminals. The third terminal was opened in 2009. A second runway has been there since 2012.
From the airport, downtown Malaga is accessible by public transportation easily accessible:
Bus
- all buses depart from terminal 3 (arrival hall) travel time approximately 25 minutes
- C1, direction Málaga center in 12 minutes
Have you ever wondered how Malaga airport got the IATA code AGP?
Well, when the IATA code was assigned, all combinations corresponding to the first letters of Málaga had already been assigned to other airports.
Therefore, it became necessary to use the fourth and fifth letters (AG). The last letter (P) was simply randomly assigned, making the final naming AGP Málaga International Airport.
About the assignment of the letter P, you may have read explanations that relate this fact to Terminal T2, also known as the Pablo Ruiz Picasso Terminal, but that is all incorrect.
The reality is that the opening of T2 with the name of Malaga’s most international resident is much later than the allocation of the AGP code for Malaga Airport.