| Valencia airport, which is situated 8 kms west of the capital, has become an important business and tourist centre, encouraging economic growth in the area.
It handles mainly domestic scheduled flights and close to half of its traffic is with Madrid. Other national destinations of importance are Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona, Seville and Ibiza. The airport also handles a significant level of international traffic from European Union countries, with most passengers coming from the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and France.
In 2006 the airport handled 4,969,113 passengers, 87,906 flight operations and 13,067 tonnes of cargo.
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