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Málaga Airport (IATA: AGP, ICAO: LEMG), officially Málaga-Costa del Sol Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Málaga-Costa del Sol) since June 2011,
is the fourth busiest airport in Spain after Madrid-Barajas, Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca. It is an important airport for Spanish tourism as it
is the main international airport serving the Costa Del Sol. It is 8 km (5 miles) southwest of Málaga and 5 km (3 miles) north of Torremolinos.
The airport has flight connections to over 60 countries worldwide, and over 12.5 million passengers passed through it in 2012.
The airport operates with three terminals. The third terminal adjacent to the previous two opened on 15 March 2010. A second runway opened at
the airport on 26 June 2012.
Málaga Airport is the international airport of Andalucia accounting for 85 percent of its international traffic and is the only one offering a wide
variety of international destinations. The airport, connected to the Costa Del Sol, has a daily link with twenty cities in Spain and over 100 cities in Europe.
Direct flights also operate to Africa, the Middle East and also to North America in the summer season.
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