Santiago - Rosalia de Castro Airport

Santiago–Rosalía de Castro Airport (Galician: Aeroporto de Santiago-Rosalía de Castro, Spanish: Aeropuerto de Santiago-Rosalía de Castro) (IATA: SCQ, ICAO: LEST), previously named Lavacolla Airport and also known as Santiago de Compostela Airport, is an international airport serving the autonomous community and historic nationality of Galicia in Spain. It is the biggest and busiest airport in Galicia and the second-busiest airport in northern Spain after Bilbao Airport. It has been named after the Galician romanticist writer and poet Rosalía de Castro, since 12 March 2020. The airport is located in the parish of Lavacolla, 12 km east of Santiago de Compostela and handled 3,640,664 passengers in 2024. It is the focus city of Vueling in the northwest Iberian Peninsula. In July 2026, Wizz Air announced that it will open a base at the airport in December 2026, the airline's first in the Galicia–North Portugal Euroregion The Christian pilgrimage route of the Camino de Santiago runs near the airport.

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