Malaga Airport Guide

Welcome to Malaga Airport Guide which is designed to help you find and make the most of the facilities available at Malaga Airport and surrounding resorts including Puerto Banus, Marbella and Estepona.

Here we give a comprehensive guide to all flights to Malaga from the UK and also a list of Malaga Internal Flights and information on a whole host of services including Malaga car hire and facilities that are available at this busy and expanding airport.

A brand new car park now provides a total of 2,500 new parking spaces. Works are still continuing on the new access roads and coach station but its great to see such major changes taking place. Terminal 1 opened with its extension of 12 new check in desks, 3 more boarding gates and another luggage carousel and eventually there will also be a new runway. It is all part of Plan Malaga and we have the latest information on the new terminal at Malaga Airport and the train services from Malaga Maria Zambrano Station.

We have also provided details of services provided for passengers with special needs or mobility problems at Malaga Airport.

Malaga Airport is currently the fourth busiest Airport in Spain and in 2009 it handled almost 13 million passengers and operated 119,807 flights. Malaga Airport has two terminals which are interconnected on the upper level. 90% of its passengers arrive at Terminal 2. You can find out more at Malaga Airport Arrivals and Malaga Airport Departures.

There is still a fair bit a of construction work being done at Malaga Airport with the new terminal due to open next Easter, and delays to and from the airport are likely. Allow enough time to get back to the airport after your holidays! You can find out more about the building works at Malaga Airport here.

We also have the latest information on the new Malaga Airport Terminal 3

The new Terminal 3 opened last month and there is still a lot of confusion at the airport with more signage needed and some areas which are not yet open. With this in mind we we are going to get together some definitive information about Malaga Airport over the next few weeks when things have died down and we can present a more accurate picture.

The airport will have two new exclusive accesses: south access, via the A7 and north access, via the new Malaga west ring road. There will also be a new underground station with a double track which can be accessed via a transportation hub.

There is a brand new Holiday Inn Express Hotel just opened up and is the nearest hotel to Malaga Airport now.

As you would expect from a large International Airport, Malaga offers a very full range of passenger services including Malaga Airport Buses , Malaga Airport Trains and Malaga Airport Taxis.

In total 23 car hire companies operate from Malaga Airport although only 10 of them are actually based within the terminal building.

Car hire firms with their offices located within the terminal buildings at Malaga Airport are Auriga Crown at Malaga Airport - Autos Lido at Malaga Airport - Avis at Malaga Airport - Europcar at Malaga Airport - Goldcar at Malaga Airport - Hertz at Malaga Airport - National Atesa at Malaga Airport - Record at Malaga Airport - Sixt at Malaga Airport and Solmar at Malaga Airport.

You can also find out which car hire firms operate offsite from Malaga Airport with the majority of these car rental firms located on a slip road running adjacent to the approach road into Malaga Airport which is called Avenida Garcia Morato.

The queues for taxis, buses and trains can get pretty long during the peak travel times and it may be advisable to pre book private Malaga Transfers which are less hassle and sometimes cheaper.

Malaga Airport Guide work in partnership with and recommend a tested and experienced company called Shuttle Direct who we believe they provide an excellent service and offer the best prices for transfers on the internet. Shuttle Direct operate worldwide 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

They are dedicated to offering a door to door shuttle service from your arrival destination to your accommodation and back again. They offer both private transfers where a driver will meet you in the arrivals hall and escort you to a waiting vehicle, and at some airports also offer provide shared transfers where you can reserve a seat on a private shuttle bus which will transport you from the airport cark park to your final destination. 

Flights to Malaga Airport (AGP) are available from over 120 airports spread around the world.

There are 17 Airports within Spain itself that offer flights to Malaga and a staggering 23 UK Airports that have regular flights to Malaga.

We have tried to list every Airport and flight from the UK and Ireland to Malaga Airport including timetables and links through to booking facilities. Many people think that there is a Marbella Airport, but Malaga Airport is the nearest airport for Marbella although it is equidistant from Gibraltar, but the choice of flights is very limited. Jerez, Granada and Seville are also feasible.

Malaga Airport Address: Malaga Airport, Avenida Garcia Morato, s/n 29004, Malaga, Spain. Telephone Number: +34 952 048 838.

We also provide driving directions to Malaga Airport.

How to Get from Malaga Airport to....

After answering many questions on our message board we have decided to set up a new section about travelling from Malaga Airport starting with:

Malaga Airport to Benalmadena -   Malaga Airport to Estepona -  Malaga Airport to Fuengirola - Malaga Airport to Gaucin   - Malaga to Gibraltar - Malaga to Marbella -  Malaga Airport to Nueva Andalucia  -  Malaga Airport to Puerto Banus  -  Malaga to Torremolinos

Costa Del Sol Holiday Information

The Costa del Sol stretches for about a 1½hour drive west of Malaga Airport towards Gibraltar and about the same distance to the east towards Nerja.

The whole area has been popular with tourists for over 40 years and the resorts are more than able to cope with the ever increasing numbers of people passing through Malaga Airport.

As we have holidayed here in the past and now live here, in Nueva Andalucia, where we have our own holiday apartment to rent in La Maestranza Puerto Banus. We have tried to put together a guide to the best things to do on the Costa del Sol including some of our weekends away and day trips all within 2-3 hours drive of Malaga Airport and places like Istan which is "real Spain" just 20 minutes away..

For shoppers we offer a guide to the main shopping centres on the Costa del Sol, Plaza Mayor in Malaga, Miramar in Fuengirola, La Canada in Marbella, Marina Banus , El Corte Ingles in Puerto Banus,  Larios Centre and the new Vialia Shopping Centre at Maria Zambrano Station and Malaga City Centre.

We also have a large choice of holiday accommodation on offer, from apartments owned by friends of ours in La Maestranza Puerto Banus through to over 100 Costa del Sol holiday Apartments and a range of some of the finest Costa del sol holiday Villas available.

All of our properties are within 1½ hours drive of Malaga Airport. Another subject on peoples minds is health and we have a page on using the EHIC Form in Spain.