The most important company operating, that brought to the airport a high number of visitors from the 2000s, it is Ryanair. Inaugurated at 1965 the airport use to have a low passenger number every year, just an average of 275,000 had been registered every year until the entrance of the Irish Ryanair. From 2002 to 2008 the number of passengers increased ten times more with almost 6 milions.
There are multiple destinations from the airport either to Spain and European countries such as the UK, Italy, The Netherlands, Denmark, Slovakia, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, Ukraine, Sweden, Turkey, Cyprus, Malta, Morocco, France, Poland, Estonia and Lithuania.
Airport facilities are adapted as any other regular airport and especially recent years many improvements have been achieving such as a new parking building, the arrival hall and other customer services areas.