Transport minister Óscar Puente said the government is lining up an investment of around €1 billion to expand the terminals at Alicante-Elche and Valencia airports.
He said this will allow Alicante to deal with 26 million passengers a year – an increase of 10 million on the current figure.
Aena president Maurici Lucena said they will ‘start the procedure to put the extension of Alicante-Elche airport out to tender in the final quarter of this year’.
Full report in Friday’s Costa Blanca News