T1–T3 passenger terminal area
Málaga grew by addition rather than by separation. T3 arrived carrying the bulk of the check-in desks, the direct-boarding infrastructure and baggage reclaim, and in doing so it tied T1 and T2 into one continuous building — which is why Aena publishes them as a single passenger terminal area rather than as three terminals a shuttle apart. For anyone flying, the practical consequence is that the letter on the boarding pass points to a gate, not to a journey between buildings.
Aena tells passengers to read the screens for their check-in desk rather than assume a fixed row per airline. Lost property has a fixed address, though: the departures floor of T3, opposite desk 380.
Boarding gates B, C and D are reached through the departures security checkpoint. Aena recommends being at the airport three hours before a non-Schengen flight and two hours before a domestic or Schengen one.
A guidance system inside the terminal gives step-by-step routes with an estimated walking time. Free pushchairs are lent for boarding and disembarking, family toilets and changing tables are provided, and there is a quiet room requested through Passenger Service, subject to availability — the kind of facility a passenger with an invisible disability has to know exists before arriving, because it is not signposted as a lounge.