Editing Las Palmas (section)

=== Airport ===
[[File:Gran canaria airport.JPG|thumb|right|{{center|[[Gran Canaria Airport]]}}]]
Las Palmas is served by [[Gran Canaria Airport]], also called ''Las Palmas Airport'' {{airport codes|LPA|GCLP}}.

The airport is located in the eastern part of the island, about {{convert|18|km|mi|abbr=on}} from Las Palmas city centre. In 2008, it handled 10,212,106 passengers and {{convert|33695248|kg|0|abbr=on}} of cargo, and is the fourth busiest in Spain.<ref name="aena2009">{{cite web
 |url=http://www.enaire.es/csee/ccurl/469/990/AENA%20TOMO%201_EN.pdf
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 }}{{Dead link|date=October 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> It is also the only airport on the islands with two runways, thus can accommodate up to 53 landings and take-offs per hour. The lengthy runways made the airport an alternative landing site for the NASA [[Space Shuttle]].<ref>{{cite report |last1=United States General Accounting Office |title=Space Shuttle: Readiness of the Transoceanic Abort Landing Sites. NSIAD-89-22 |date=16 December 1988 |publisher=[[Government Accountability Office]] |location=Washington, DC |page=12 |url=https://www.gao.gov/assets/nsiad-89-22.pdf |author1-link=United States General Accounting Office |access-date=1 October 2023 |archive-date=18 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018073215/https://www.gao.gov/assets/nsiad-89-22.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> This airport is also a base for [[Binter Canarias]] and [[Canaryfly]], airlines which operate regional inter-island flights within the Canary Islands.

An airbase of the [[Spanish Air Force]] is located to the east of the runways. Beyond several hangars opposite the passenger terminal, the Gando Air Base (''Base Aérea de Gando'') contains ten shelters situated on the southern end of the eastern runway.