Talk:Gibraltar International Airport

Clarification?
"The airport runway is similar to Hong Kong's former airport Kai Tak (formerly RAF Kai Tak)." How are the two runways similar? The Kai Tak article mentions that the Japanese extended the runway past an existing road, but there is no mention whether the road was closed during aircraft operations (as with the Gibraltar Airport). Are they similar because they are built on reclaimed land? If that is the case then they are similar to a lot of other runways (e.g. SFO). -- Gyrofrog (talk) 17:24, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
 * They are similar because they are both short and stick out into the sea, and yes they are both built on reclaimed land. Segafreak2 18:25, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Was Kai-Tak really very short (handling various, heavily-laden jumbo jets)? In any case I wouldn't say they formed a unique pair. One might also include STT. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 16:48, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Air Malta Charter
Can someone clarify that this actually happens? I have never seen or heard of this before, and there is no cited source. 86.128.28.71 16:38, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
 * It does indeed happen. This years flight leaves Gib on the 17th July and returns on the 24th July. Gibmetal 77 talk 12:03, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I returned to Gibraltar on 17/7 (yesterday) and did see the Air Malta plane parked, in fact even clicked a photo - will upload if suitable. Binand 17:13, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I saw it land from the beach :). Please do upload it and insert it in the article if you think it's a good photo.Gibmetal 77 talk 19:56, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

I've added an image too (but not of Air Malta). If you do get round to uploading yours I think I would fit nicely under the 'Destinations' section. Chris Buttigieg 09:56, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. Will try to get a better pic on the 24th when the plane returns to GIB.Binand 04:31, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Did anyone manage to take a photo of it on tuesday then? I didn't know at what time it was arriving so I missed the chance again. Gibmetal 77 talk 16:06, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Update on construction
The deadlines listed in the section on the construction of the new terminal are in the past. Did everything go according to plan? --Slashme (talk) 10:20, 30 July 2009 (UTC)


 * It's all still ongoing but there's nothing on the web to indicate any new estimated completion dates. I've updated it to reflect this. Willdow (talk) 09:49, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Safety record
The article says that a History Channel list of dangerous airports ranked Gibraltar fifth in the world and top in Europe. There is nothing in the article about accidents though. Have there been any notable ones? I wonder if they just put in on their list because it looks scary and has a road across it, rather than because they'd actually looked at accident statistics. Beorhtwulf (talk) 23:20, 28 February 2011 (UTC)


 * The only accident I can think of is a plane crash that occured in 1943 in which Władysław Sikorski was killed, the then Prime Minister of Poland. As you suggest, I suspect its inclusion in the History Channel is down to its perceived 'scary factor' more than anything else. RedCoat10 (talk) 16:00, 1 March 2011 (UTC)


 * There are several aircraft wreckages in the seas around Gibraltar. One of the most notable of these is located at the eastern end of the runway. 95.131.184.40 (talk) 17:20, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

The original programme was titled 'most Extreme airports' - althuogh in reality it was a mix of dangerous and simply usual and bizare (but not actually dangerous). Sadly some media outlets misreported what the programme was about, and assumed that if one was in the list for being dangerous, then they all were. Also I understand some broadcasts of the series were marketed as it being a 'dangerous' list in their adverts and local continuity announcements. The airport is perfectly safe.

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Airspace
"Gibraltar International is one of the few Class A airports in the world." I have removed the sentence above as it would appear that this cannot be clarified at the moment. http://www.panorama.gi/localnews/headlines.php?action=view_article&article=4701

As far as I can tell, there appears to be a dispute as to airspace as long as there is a dispute with Spain over sovereignty of Gibraltar!

I've spent a few hours searching for what class of airspace Gibraltar counts as, and I've seen Class A, Class C, a mixture of several, and even none at all (and that Spain controls airspace).

Gibraltar Laws quotes Class A and Class C, but doesn't state which applies, and/or where. It also quotes laws for VFR which of course wouldn't apply in Class A.

When there is clarification then this can be added back in and amended is necessary. WillDow (Talk) 09:11, 23 April 2012 (UTC) Hi, i have just ben on a tour of thebairpot control tower and the 'NATS operator showed the radar screen and told us it was Unclasified airspace and he claimed it was the only unclassified airspace in the world. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.216.169.100 (talk) 23:31, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

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GIB only serves a part of Spain
While the article states that GIB is used by some passengers travelling to or from neighboring parts of southern Spain, it seems inappropriate to include an unmodified Spain as one of the city-served. I would tend to think of Gibraltar as both a British Overseas Territory and a city that occupies the whole or the vast majority of that territory. But I suppose it may not technically qualify as a city. But certainly GIB serves all of Gibraltar and only a small region of Spain. I have changed it to give the name of the closest province, "Cádiz (Spain)". I thought of using "Cádiz (Andalusia)", but in the end I thought Spain would be a more recognizable disambiguator on en.wikipedia. To avoid making it look like a statement that Gibraltar is also part of Spain, I added a disambiguator there also, so it reads "Gibraltar (UK), where the disambiguator is a piped link pointing to British Overseas Territory. YBG (talk) 08:19, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

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Road tunnel
Can someone of knowledge please update the section: it says that it’d be finished by November 2018 but it is currently still not finished. Thank you! Lbc07 (talk) 19:52, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

Suspicious external link
Can anyone check if the external link provided in the InfoBox footnotes (Reference #2 - Source: WAD) is proper. It seems it is directing to a suspicious page. I got "Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead". Stymyrat (talk) 10:06, 16 February 2023 (UTC)