A few weekends ago, returning from my holiday village, I was driving along the A-23 road when I noticed the large number of planes parked at Teruel airport. A few years ago, on the same route, you could hardly see the few planes that were there. In the recent years it has become a successful airport, where there is not a single passenger, but it is the third largest airport in Spain. How has it achieved this?
Teruel Airport, or PLATA (Teruel Airport Platform), was built about 10 years ago, criticised for the huge investment in this project. Nowadays is configured as a new and exclusive industrial airport model with unique characteristics, created with the aim of providing a solution to the necessary reconversion of the aeronautical sector in Europe. It began operating in activities oriented towards general aeronautical services, specialising in long-stay parking, recycling and aircraft maintenance.
Thanks to the efforts of its promoters as an industrial infrastructure, it has managed in just a few years to place it at the vanguard both in terms of its capacity and its future projects in the aeronautical and aerospace field. In this sense, he once again highlighted the interest in converting this infrastructure into a "strategic airport" and rocket test stand through the aerospace PERTE, in which international companies such as PLD Space, which has designed a microsatellite project, Sceye, an operator of HAPS (high altitude pseudo satellites), Airbus Operations, storage and non-destructive testing of aeronautical materials, Delsat, drones, BP, management of aviation fuel systems, among other companies, are involved.
Airport's competitive advantages derive from its geographical location.
The land surrounding Teruel does not have the same cost as the land around large cities such as Madrid or Barcelona, so the cost of expansion is cheap in comparison. For this reason, the cost of renting hangars for storage is very competitive for airlines. It also has no logistical limitations as it is built on an esplanade of thousands of hectares, so a wide range of aeronautical activities can be carried out. In addition, it has rail access, a complementary service for the arrival/embarkation of supplies.
In order to continue exploiting the airport and its land, a project has recently been approved for the construction of a building with a surface area of 5,000 square metres and a maximum height of 7 metres, which will be used for aeronautical logistics and the storage of aircraft test parts.
Taking all of the above into account, Teruel airport has managed to position itself as a reference point in Europe, where many companies are carrying out their R&D projects, mainly because it is a logistics centre with very competitive storage costs.
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