Malaga Terminal 3

[buspilot]

The new terminal at Malaga is to be opened by King Juan Carlos on Monday, 15th March.

This is a link to a video on the new terminal:

www.tvspain.tv/video_details.php?id=94

The second runway is due to be complete and operational later this year.

[buspilot]

Here is the list of which terminal each airline will be using as of next Tuesday:

Terminal 1
JET2.COM (To move to T2 at end of March)

Terminal 2
AER LINGUS
EASYJET SWITZERLAND
AEROFLOT
FLYBE
AIR TRANSAT
IBERWORLD
ANDALUS
KUWAIT AIRWAYS
BMI
MONARCH AIRLINES
BLUE AIR
RYANAIR
BMIBABY
THOMAS COOK UK
BULGARIA AIR
THOMSON AIRWAYS
EASYJET
TRANSAERO

Terminal 3
AIGLE AZUR
LUFTHANSA
AIR BERLIN
LUXAIR
AIR EUROPA
MALEV HUNGARIAN AIRLINES
AIR FINLAND
NIKI
AIR NOSTRUM
NORWEGIAN AIR SHUTTLE
ARKEFLY
PRIMERA AIR
BRITISH AIRWAYS
REGIONAL
BRUSSELS AIRLINES
SAS SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES
CIMBER STERLING
SPANAIR
CONDOR
SWISS INTERNATIONAL AIR LINES
DELTA AIRLINES
TAP PORTUGAL
EUROPE AIRPOST
THOMAS COOK BELGIUM
FINNAIR
TRANSAVIA.COM
GERMANWINGS
TRAVEL SERVICE
IBERIA
TUIFLY
INAER
VUELING
JETAIRFLY

So unless you are flying on British airline, other than BA, you don't get to use the new terminal. However both piers B and C in T2 will now be available, which should mean less remote parking and bussing.

[buspilot]

Having passed in and out of Malaga in the last week, here is a brief update on the present chaos.

Whilst airlines that have been "allocated" as staying in terminal 2, require you to check in there, you then have to walk to terminal 3 to go through security and enter the shopping and eatery/watering mall of the new terminal.
All the shops, duty free, cafes and restaurants in T2 have been closed, apart from the cafe at the bottom of pier B and the one half way up pier C. Both piers B & C now have passport control as you enter from the main terminal. Please remember that pier B is quite a walk from the security area in T3, so give yourself enough time. Worth remembering, as pier B appears to have been allocated to Easyjet.

On arriving into pier B, you will take the old downstairs route to the old T2 baggage reclaim. If you arrive on pier C, you come out at the join of T2 and T3, then find your luggage will be in the old T2 bagage reclaim.

When you have collected your bags, you will find that the exit from T2 has now been closed, so you must walk into T3 to exit the terminal from there.

The new train station is still not open, so if your onward journey is by train, you must then walk back the whole length of T 2 & T3 to get to the old station via the car park.

Also be aware that the new baggage trollies fit into the grooved floor of the travelators and once locked in, you cannot push them...you must travel slowly at the speed of the belt......and two of the travelators were out of action already, and being worked on last Sunday.

Oh yes. One more point. BA flights, whilst checking in at T3, leave from pier C in T2.

So if you are coming to Malaga you have been forewarned of the present situation.

T2 is now to be refitted internally, so things should gradually improve.