Granada Airport or Federico García Lorca Airport is located seventeen kilometres from the city of Granada. It is close by to Santa Fe which is around fourteen kilometres away. The airport primarily dealt with domestic flights in the past however cheap holiday flights have hugely boosted numbers over the years.

In the year 2000 passenger numbers were just over half a million by 2005 this number had risen by 375,000 and by 2007 passenger numbers were approaching one and a half  million.

There is a bus service from the airport into the city which takes about half an hour and costs three euro one way. There are also plenty of taxis about which should set you back about twenty euro to get to Granada City.

There are no direct flights to Granada from Ireland however there are plenty of connecting services such as with Ryanair from Liverpool and Stansted in the UK or Madrid in Spain. They also fly to Granada from the Italian cities of Milan and Bologna.

Spanish cities which can be reached by air from Granada include Girona, Majorca, Melilla and Madrid.