LEST is the ICAO code for Santiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (IATA SCQ), located in Santiago de Compostela, GA, Spain.
Santiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (LEST) is a large airport in Santiago de Compostela, GA, Spain. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code LEST or IATA code SCQ. It sits in Europe.
Santiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport is a commercial-airline hub that also handles a steady stream of private and corporate traffic. Mixed commercial and private operations mean planners should expect slot coordination, handling agent involvement, and the usual international hub procedures.
Santiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport lies at 1,213 ft elevation.
Local operations run on Europe/Madrid. Because the field hosts scheduled airline operations, private operators should expect a defined slot environment, possible CDM coordination at peak banks, and limited ramp availability during major event weekends. Booking FBO ramp space in advance is normal practice.
SkyAccess currently tracks 1 departing and 1 arriving private-jet legs at LEST across the next six months of operator inventory. 1 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.
As one of the larger fields in Spain, LEST tends to be the natural choice for long-range international charters and crew-rest-required flights.