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Castellón–Costa Azahar Airport ((スペイン語:Aeropuerto de Castellón-Costa Azahar), ), is an airport in Vilanova d'Alcolea and Benlloch in Spain. ==History== The airport was officially declared "open" by local authorities in March 2011, shortly before regional elections and as total cost reached €150 million, despite having neither airlines signed up to land there nor government approval to operate. Delayed for several years, commercial flights were due to begin on 1 April 2012,〔("Spain's Vacant Airport Typifies European Woes" ). Miller-McCune〕 but the first commercial flight to the airport landed on 15 September 2015. In February 2012, it was reported that modifications would have to be made to the runway before the airport could be brought into use.〔 It was then later reported that the runway was to be dug up entirely.〔 The airport has become a symbol of the wasteful spending that has helped sink Spain deep into a recession and a banking crisis. For instance, the company in charge of running the airport, Aerocas, was recently found to have spent 26 million euros on sponsoring various sports teams in its region. Also, a $375,000, 24-metre-tall statue, often interpreted as a representation of Carlos Fabra, the formerly powerful local politician who was the driving force behind its construction, was erected just outside the airport. Fabra has been under judicial investigation in connection with several cases of corruption and tax evasion,〔 and was sentenced to four years in prison for tax fraud in December 2014.〔(The Guardian: Spanish politician who built ghost airport begins jail term for tax fraud )〕 On 14 January 2014, nearly four years after the formal opening of the airport, the first flight departed from Castellón-Costa Azahar. Air Nostrum charter flight YW2003 carried the Villarreal CF football team, which is sponsored by the airport itself, to San Sebastián for their Copa del Rey match against Real Sociedad. The first regular scheduled (seasonal) flights from Castellón-Costa Azahar to Bristol and London Stansted, operated by Ryanair, began in September 2015.〔http://www.stanstedairport.com/about-us/media-centre/press-releases/ryanair-launches-london-stansted-winter-2015-schedule〕 The European Union has opened a formal investigation into whether the Canadian company that manages the airport (SNC-Lavalin) and Ryanair are receiving illegal subsidies from the regional government.〔http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2015/09/09/actualidad/1441819138_085238.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Castellón–Costa Azahar Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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