San Javier extension

Hi

I know San Javier airport operating hours will be extended by the addaition of a new runway.  The flight path, depending on which direction being used is over Los Alcazares.   When approaching from the south, do the planes come in over the sea and then then turn right for final approach?  Do they do the same for southerly take-off ie bank left over the sea shortly after take off.

Thanks

Jack

Hi JDM

When we fly to Murcia (San Javier), the planes coming in from the North (UK), are over the sea, then do a right turn for final approach. 

Flying out of the airport, I am sure they go inland, then turn right either going up the coast or over the sea.

However, we own in Paya Flamenca overlooking the sea and it is very rare to see planes going either way over the sea!

So not sure, where they turn for the sea approach..............hope this helps......sounds a bit gobble de gook to read what I said!!!

Hi jdm,

I fly in and out of San Javier every couple of weeks and they land from both directions depending on wind direction I think. I think its the same taking off but I'm not sure.  I think they like to head into the wind to give them lift when they take off and to slow them down when they land.

On the flight path from the UK they come over Valencia and out to sea then they will either do a tight right turn over the Mar Menor and straight in or they will go right past the Mar menor do a huge swinging right hand 180 degrees and come in over the land.

I have only taken off pointing inland in which they will then immediately do a 180 degree left out to sea and up past Benidorm etc.

HTH

Thanks for the replies.  I thought they would come in and go out over the sea so as to avoid popluated areas as much as possible.  We are buying in Los Aclazares and witha new runway coming on stream and the possibility of late night flights I just wanted to be sure about the flight paths.  We are buying an apartment so any noise is minimal unless its from the neighbours!

Jack

I believe that all airports operate the same as mentioned before and take off and also land into the wind.

Nearly all the times I have flown into San Javier the planes have flown over Cartegena before doing a full circle before following the coast over Los Alcazares.  And again when they take off they tend to fly away from Los Alcazares. I guess that is the way the wind normally blows.

I knew about the expansion of the terminal buildings but did not know that they were planning a new runway so I do not know how this will affect things. Presumably it will run in the same direction as the original runway.

> Thanks for the replies.  I thought they would come in and go out over the sea so as to avoid popluated areas as much as possible

in Spain? you must be joking. I don't know if you've ever taken a look around Torrelano or El Altet but these are in the direct flight path of Alicante.

But what strikes me most of all is that nobody really seems to care. Some of the Villas in Torrellano look extremely expensive. Why would people with that sort of money want to settle there if noise was an issue?

Isn't this forum great, I've always wondered why I couldn't get early morning flights to San Javier and now I know.

I prefer the 6am flights as they fit in with my DH shift pattern, he can drop me off at 4am and get a couple of hours sleep before going to work.

I've always been tempted by the 1p flights from Ryanair, in our first year of ownership I found it cheaper to get 2 1p return Ryanair flights with a 3 day gap between them than 1 EasyJet.  Was able to get 30kgs of luggage over instead of 20kg.  As it was February when I got to San Javier the inward flight was delayed due to Sea Mist, they tried to get us to transfer to the next days plane but after 5 hours they took us by coach to Alicante.

I think the flights were around £23 each but this was 4 years ago.  Last week I booked a flight for a friend to Mont Pelier with all the extras and charges you now have to pay, the return 1p flights worked out to £63.03.

Something to bear in mind when you look at the website, the standard charges are not included so if you want to take a suitcase,early boarding then add £63 to the prices shown when you are comparing them with other companies.

I do realise that it's stilll a good deal but I would prefer that standard charges were shown on the first page as EasyJet now does.  That way you can decide then whether to continue with the booking or look else where.

I don't know if it's something that always happens but after I had clicked the button to accept the debit card details I lost the connection after the prompt telling me to wait x amount of seconds whilst it was being processed.  Luckily I was using the laptop so DH went to the desktop to see if we had an email from them which we had, after a couple of minutes I refreshed the screen and the booking reference came up so panic over.

Hi Semi

I knew San Javier was a military airport.  We thought we were going to be stuck taking off very late one night as the inbound flight from Bristol was delayed due to fog during day. Thankfully the flight turned up & we took off just before they closed the airport. On our flight were many who had experienced a cancelled flight to Bristol the previous night due to bad weather.  They'd been given the choice of going to Alicante for a later flight or coming back to San Javier to go on next flight from there. (EasyJet)

The new runway has already been built however the local council will not grant permission for it to come into use until the Airport fulfills certain criteria. The main one (and stumbling block due to cost) is that they are required to pay for sound-proofing to approxi 3000 dwellings in Los Alcazares before the 2nd run way can be used and thus extend the operating hours for civilian use.

I suspect that the new airport at Corvera will eventually replace San Javier (as was the original intention)