Sevilla Flights

The airport is not big, we flew with a low cost airline so we did not had checked in luggage. It is closed at night so do not plan to sleep there It open around 4am
The tourist office by the exit door have a great map of the town and also "EL giraldillo", a newspaper that will tell you all about what is happening in town.
There is a bus stop, far in the left from the exit door. A ride to the center will cost you 2.30 euro, 4 roundtrip. If you are staying in Santa Cruz as we did, your get off is the last stop in Avenida del Cid.

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I flew to Seville from Bilbao with Vueling airlines. This cost me 74.50 Euros.

(I'd originally booked a return flight from Santander to Madrid, with Ryanair).

The total cost for the return flight was less than 13 Euros, but then I had to get from Madrid to Seville - so I decided to go for the easier, quicker, but more expensive option - sacrifice my Santander to Madrid flight and go for the Bilbao to Seville flight.

I left Bilbao in the rain, and 21 degrees It was a shock to arrive to a hot dry evening and a temperature of 47 degrees!

A smooth flight- I think the majority of passengers were traveling for the same reason as I was - (to see Bruce Springsteen on the 2nd date of the Spanish leg of his European tour in Seville) judging by the concert T-Shirts worn by my fellow passengers!

I was also looking forward to seeing Seville, my first visit, and a city that had been near the top of my 'Must See ' places for years.

I'm used to flying with Ryanair, and I thought Vueling was very similar. No frills- got me from A-B and more or less on time. Drinks and snacks served on flight. Vueling website

Telephone from within Spain
Customer Service:
807 00 17 17 - 08:00-24:00 every day. 0.41/min. from landline and €0.75/min. from mobile, taxes incl. Plaza Pla de l'estany nº5, 08820 Barcelona .

Bookings:
807 200 200 - 08:00-24:00 every day. 0.87/min. from landline and €1.22/min. from mobile, taxes incl. Plaza Pla de l'estany nº5, 08820 Barcelona .

Punto phone:
902 10 42 69 - 08:00-24:00 every day.

Lost luggage:
902 48 66 48 - 08:00-22:00 every day.

Seville airport is 10km NE from the city centre
Address:
Ctra. Nal. IV. Madrid-Cádiz Km. 532
ES - 41020 Sevilla

The design of this airport was based on Seville's cultural roots, using three traditional components:The mosque, The palace and The orange trees.
An orange grove greets the travelers upon their arrival at the airport before they enter the hall, which has blue glazed roof tiles, and is crowned by a line of arches supported by vaults.

This airport mainly deals with domestic flights, 'though it does cater for a small number of international flights.

I caught the bus from the airport to the centre, then a tram to Plaza Nuova

Buses from the airport and the City Centre run every 30 minutes between 6:15 and 23:00. The journey takes between 20-30 minutes and a single ticket costs €2.30.
Checkout the online timetable
Information telephone: +34 954720200

Getting from Barcelona to Seville is easiest by air - the question then becomes how?
Vueling has some wonderful discounts. When I was searching for a flight there was a special offer for only Euro 35.

Then the problems began...
First off they want a cell phone number. Don't own a cell phone and don't want to. The site refused to accept my reservation without one. My son agreed to let me use his number to reserve the flight.
Then the Vueling site refused to accept my reservation even with a cell phone number.
Tried again and again for over a week. Even wrote to them.

Finally after more than a week I decided to check out other possible flights.
After I added up all the extras like checked luggage, taxes and such I discovered that with Iberia I could fly for only Euro 5 more - and choose my seat w/o an extra payment (If I had wanted to choose my seat on Vueling it would have cost even more than the Iberia flight in the end).

The topping was that it was the same flight! A Vueling/Iberia combo flight. I reserved my flight in a matter of minures and no more worries. That alone was worth the Euro 5 extra!

A week later finally got an answer from Vueling - the site had a glitch and wasn't accepting any reservations. They had only just discovered it!

The lesson learned - sometimes a small amount of extra money can save a lot of wear and tear.

The flight itself was uneventful, went well arrived on time.

We flew to Sevilla from Frankfurt/Hahn, Germany - about a 2 1/2 hour flight. Sevilla's airport is quite close to the city and it is basically a domestic airport, although some of the international budget airlines fly here as well.

We did not really see anything of the airport, since we were only traveling with carry-on luggage and the only thing we looked at, was the bus stop for the bus to Sevilla. And that was easy to find: just outside the airport to the left is the bus-stop for the airport bus to Sevilla!

The 2 times I went to Sevilla, I used Iberia. Already my first experience with them was annoying - I had to wait for hours at Sevilla airport and was afraid to miss my connection flight in Barcelona. However, the plane from Barcelona to Vienna was equally delayed, so I reached it. The Iberia staff already then was not helpful at all and there was no information.

My latest experience with Iberia was even more dreadful. Short after the take-off to Madrid I could heard something that sounded like an explosion - I thought it came from the emergency exit door. I had a look at the stewardess, who showed a real pokerface.

However, the next shock was, that the plane did not go up, meaning it was flying just several meters above the ground. What had happened was, that during take off a tyre had exploded, parts of the wheel came into one engine which stopped it`s work then. A similar thing happened at the fatal accident of the Concorde. We had to circulate about 90 minutes over lower Austria to loose kerosene. Meanwhile I could watch hysterical flight attendants looking out of the windows to check the engine, rehearsing how to open the emergency exit door and studying the emergency manual. Obviously they don`t do emergency trainings at Iberia too often.

It was like a nightmare, we had to take the shoes of and take this special position to protect the head for landing.

However, we landed safely, although they had problems with the alighting gear as well, so there were flying firebrands.

On the next day, they brought us to Madrid with a newer plane- and when I arrived, Iberia staff had no idea about what happened or on which connection flight they`s book me.

In addition, on the way back we had a delay and they left my luggage in Madrid - I got it only the following day.

All in all, it was a very unpleasant experience and I will never fly them again.

The last stop from the airport bus is Avenidid El Cid which is right beside the old town , but as there are no sign posts it can be confusing. Don't walk around aimlessly but stop some one and seek directions. When you get off the bus turn right as you alight and take the second left to get to the old town. Note that if you are going to Santa Justa train station, for the AVE - for example,you should get off several stops before this.

Our flight to Seville was from Liverpool - a new service in 2006 and one we were happy to take advantage of :-) Rafael Moneo the diesgner of the terminal, whichh opened in 1989, used the themes of Seville: the mosque (vaulted arch concourse) , the palace (expansive blue tiled concourse) and the orange trees (in the airport grounds).

Seville airport is located about 10 Kilometres north east of the city - taxi fares to city centre should be about 20-25 euros. We tried to help a guy out by offering to share a taxi with him as he didn't have enough euros but the drver caught onto this and was very meanly I thought doubled the fare - he ended up going on the bus which arrived shortly after.There is a half hourly bus service from 06.15 to 23.00 to the Santa Justa railway station in the centre of the city. The cost of a single ticket is 2.30 Euro. The route is Puerta de Jerez and there are stops in streets Palos de la Frontera, Pedro de Castro, Enramadilla, avenida San Francisco Javier, Luis de Morales y Avenida Kansas City (next to Santa Justa station).

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It's possible arrive to Seville by air thanks to the national and international air links which join the city to the major Spanish and European cities.

Es posible llegar a Sevilla por aire gracias a cualquiera de las conexiones aereas nacionales e internacionales que unen la ciudad con las principales ciudades españolas y europeas.