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History of Reus Airport

One of Europe's newest airports, Reus was officially opened in 1990 so as to boost tourist links to the north-east of Spain.

Sure enough, within a couple of years of the first international flight landing, the number of arrivals using it as a gateway to the region's beaches and cities started to steadily increase.

However, it was the low-cost flights revolution seen at the end of the 1990s that really put Reus Airport on the international aviation map, with the number of passengers passing through its terminal buildings seen to increase from 500,000 a year in 1995 to 1.1 million in 2004.

Such an increase in popularity has meant that facilities at the airport have also been stepped up over the past decade, with a new arrivals hall constructed and work currently underway on revamping the main terminal and check-in areas.

Travelling to Reus Airport

Given that a significant proportion of passengers fly into Reus Airport with the express aim of taking a holiday elsewhere, transport links between the terminal building and the rest of Catalonia are excellent.

Direct bus services leave on a regular basis to whisk passengers to the bustling metropolis of Barcelona, some 75 kilometres to the north.

A bus service is also in place to carry passengers onto the nearby towns of La Pineda, Salou and Cambrils, while there is also a link to the nearby city of Taragona.

Furthermore, passengers are also able to pick up a hire car from the airport to get either to any of these destinations or else to the many coastal towns and resorts dotted down the Catalonian coast.

Airlines Flying from Reus Airport

Despite having now established itself as a relatively large airport, welcoming around 1.5 million passengers a year to north-west Spain, Reus currently serves just three scheduled airlines.

Most notably, budget airline Ryanair has set up a base at the Spanish airport, offering international and domestic cheap flights to more than 20 destinations.

Within Spain, the Irish low-cost carrier jets to Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville and Palma de Mallorca, while its international destinations include Birmingham, Bristol, Dublin, Glasgow, Liverpool, London Stansted, Milan, Paris and Venice.

Meanwhile, Thomson Airlines offers direct flights from all corners of the UK to Reus Airport, including from Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, London, Manchester and Newcastle, while Jet2.com also offers flights between Catalonia and Manchester.

At the same time, however, several airlines also offer charter flights in the peak summer months to whisk international tourists to the nearby beach resorts.

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