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Alicante Airport runway to close every night for taxiway works
The closures run from March 2 to 29 and will affect both late arrivals to Alicante and some very early morning departures
If you're flying into or out of Alicante-Elche Airport late at night or in the very early hours during March, it's worth double-checking your flight times because there are some changes you'll want to know about.
Aena, which manages general operations at the airport, has announced that the runway will be closed every night from March 2 to 29, between midnight and 5.59am. The closure is needed to carry out a package of improvement works on the airfield, including work connected to the construction of a brand new taxiway that is already underway.
Anyone who has a flight arriving in Alicante after midnight or departing in that early window between 5.30am and 5.45am should check with their airline, as a number of those flights have already been rescheduled.
The new taxiway is the biggest project in the package, with Aena investing a huge €13.8 million in the project. The idea is to improve the flow of aircraft moving around on the ground and to make overall operations at the airport more efficient.
During the overnight closure periods, workers will be focused on laying the duct bank that will eventually carry the cabling for the taxiway's lighting system.
On top of that, Aena is also putting nearly €1.42 million into resurfacing the existing parallel taxiway that runs alongside the runway. That work involves two five-metre-wide strips running the full length of the taxiway, and it's quite an involved process – the lighting cabling has to be taken out first, then the surface and intermediate layers are milled away, new layers are laid down and fresh lighting grooves are cut in.
There's also a separate project focused on the pavement at the head of runway 10, with a budget of €482,470 covering an area of around 2,200 square metres. The damaged asphalt will be stripped out, the surface and part of the layer beneath it will be replaced, and new markings will be painted on once the work is complete.
Aena said the programme had been carefully planned from the start, explaining that the works "have been meticulously scheduled, and flight planning has been adjusted so that airlines can adapt their schedules to the limitations imposed by these improvements."
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