Getting around AGP
Aena puts Málaga-Costa del Sol eight kilometres from the city centre and ties its roots to the beginnings of Spanish commercial aviation — the site is linked to the first airline founded in Spain, in 1919. What a passenger meets today is a single terminal area with three names: T3 arrived carrying most of the check-in desks and the baggage reclaim, and in doing so joined T1 and T2 into one building, so the number printed on a boarding pass points to a gate rather than to a walk between terminals. Gates B, C and D open beyond the departures checkpoint. Aena asks for three hours before a non-Schengen flight and two before a Schengen or domestic one, and tells passengers to read the screens for the check-in desk instead of looking for a fixed airline row. In 2025 the airport handled 26,760,549 passengers. Outside the doors, the rarity of this coast: a Cercanías station of its own, on the C1 line, eight minutes from the high-speed platforms at María Zambrano and about twelve from the city centre, with the Line A express bus as the alternative that stops nearer the sea.
