SUR in English
Pilar Martínez
02 September 2025
In an exclusive interview with SUR, the airport's managing director Pedro Bendala reveals the schedule for the plans that will almost double the size of the current close-to-capacity airport
Pedro Bendala, managing director of Malaga Airport, focuses his gaze on the functional design document for the airport expansion that he has in the centre of the table. He knows this document like the back of his hand because he and his team have been working for months and months on this project, a project that will entail an investment of 1.5 billion euros to almost double the surface area of this infrastructure, increasing the spread from the current 80,000 square metres to some 140,000 square metres.
This undertaking will also increase the security control area equipment area by 112%, passport control at departures by 515%, the non-Schengen waiting and boarding area by 381% and the Schengen flights area by 126%. Bendala goes on to list the new features that are also stated in this document, expansion plans that could be a reality in eight years' time.
