Portorož Airport
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Portorož Airport (Slovenian: Letališče Portorož) , the third international airport in Slovenia, is located near the village of Sečovlje, 6 km south of Portorož, a few hundred metres from the Croatian border. Besides Portorož, the airport has a number of tourist destinations in the vicinity, including Piran, Izola, Koper in Slovenia, Trieste in Italy and Umag in Croatia.
The airport is intended for passenger transport, sport, tourist and business flights. It lies at two metres above sea level, the runway measures 1200 × 30 metres, soon to be expanded. The whole airport is scheduled to undergo renovation soon, in order to accompany its first scheduled flights.
First Serbian low cost airline Centavia is rumoured to start service to this airport in September 2006.
The airport is one of the bases of Solinair.
External links
- [Portorož Airport] (official site)
- [World Aero Data on this airport (LJPZ)]
- Map from [MultiMap]
- Satellite image from [TerraServer]
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