Bilbao Airport holds IATA Code as BIO which is located almost 9 km from city center of Bilbao situated in Loiu municipality in Biscay. It is the most important airport in the Basque Country and northern Spain, with 4,045,613 passengers in 2011. It is famous for its new main terminal opened in 2000 designed by Santiago Calatrava. It is the 2nd most important base for Vueling, with the second highest number of destinations offered.
The airport was first operated in 1948 for civilian operations and since then there are constant expansions and extensions to meet increasing traffic. At the present Bilbao is the very important hub within Northern Spain and the passenger traffic is on continuous increase. A sharp increase started when Guggenheim museum was inaugurated as an effort to revitalize Bilbao City in 1997. Since then the museum at Bilbao became a popular attraction for tourists (4 million tourists) and helped boosting city economy within first three years. This way passenger traffic kept on increasing number of passengers using the new terminal continues to rise, especially after the increased tourist interest in the city since the opening of the Guggenheim museum. With the past increase of traffic, the terminal operated at full thrust but facilities fell short that is in 2007 passengers handled were 4.5 million. Again in 2014 traffic reported touching the 4 million passenger count. You can book for Bilbao airport taxi for reliable and affordable transportation here.
Temperature rarely falls below freezing even in winter while does not cross 35ºC during summer. Frequent rain in the area is a blessing that makes hilly area quite green for attracting more of tourists. Bilbao proper area has population crossing 372,000 whereas the metropolitan population is around one million.
Bilbao Airport is used by famous airlines like Air France, Lufthansa, Air Berlin, Norwegian, Vueling, TuiFly, Iberia, Air Europa, AerLingus and some small fleets from airlines. Easy Jet arrives from London Manchester and Stansted and there is also option to reach Santander by Ryanair .
From airport to downtown, taking Bizkaibus A3247 is very convenient from arrivals hall. The bus starts every 30 minutes from the airport bus terminal to Bilbao bus terminal with around 25 minutes driving. The bus stops at three points during this travel.
From airport to downtown, taking Bizkaibus A3247 is very convenient from arrivals hall. The bus starts every 30 minutes from the airport bus terminal to Bilbao bus terminal with around 25 minutes driving. The bus stops at three points during this travel.