Tenerife South Airport

Tenerife South Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur) (IATA: TFS, ICAO: GCTS), also known as Tenerife South–Reina Sofía Airport,[3] is the larger of the two international airports located on the island of Tenerife (the other being Tenerife North Airport) and the second busiest in the Canary Islands (after Gran Canaria Airport). It is located in the municipality of Granadilla de Abona and handled over 11 million passengers in 2018. Combined with Tenerife North Airport, the island gathers the highest passenger movement of all the Canary Islands, with 12,248,673 passengers,[4] surpassing Gran Canaria Airport.

Tenerife South Airport Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur / Aeropuerto Internacional Reina Sofía Tenerife Sur / Reina Sofía Airport - GCTS
IATA: TFS ICAO: GCTS
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	ENAIRE
Operator	Aena
Serves	Tenerife
Location	Granadilla de Abona
Elevation AMSL	64 m / 209 ft
Coordinates	28°02′40″N 016°34′21″W
Map
TFS Location in the Canary Islands
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 07/25 3,200 10,498 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers 11,168,506 Passenger change 18-19 1.1% Movements 70,277 Movements change 18-19 0.5% Cargo (t) 2,188
Sources: Passenger Traffic, AENA [1] Spanish AIP, AENA[2]

History

In the late 1960s, the island authorities of Tenerife found the need for a new airport at a new location, because the existing airport did not meet technical requirements due to adverse weather conditions.

The airport was under construction when the Tenerife airport disaster occurred at Tenerife North Airport on 27 March 1977.

The new airport was inaugurated on 6 November 1978, by Queen Sofía of Spain, to whom the airport is dedicated. The first flight was Iberia flight IB187 from Lanzarote, which was operated by a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 landing at 10:17.[5] By the end of its first year, 1 million passengers had passed through its doors.

Terminal

Tenerife South consists of one three-storey passenger terminal in a classic brick style. The main level, Floor 0, contains all check-in and service counters, the departures waiting areas as well as the arrivals and main baggage reclaim. The departures area features 34 boarding gates of which eight are equipped with jetbridges. While the upper floor 1 contains office space and transit corridors, the basement level -1 features additional luggage belts.[6]

Airlines and destinations

Main hall

Control tower

Apron view

Exterior of airport

Destinations by airline served from Tenerife South Airport:[7]

Airlines	Destinations
Aeroflot	Moscow–Sheremetyevo
Aer Lingus	Dublin Seasonal: Cork
Air Europa	Alicante,[8] Manchester, Paris–Orly, Santiago de Compostela Seasonal: Asturias, Bilbao, Valencia
Alitalia	Seasonal: Rome–Fiumicino
Austrian Airlines	Vienna
Azur Air	Charter: Moscow–Vnukovo[9]
Belavia	Seasonal charter: Minsk[10]
Binter Canarias	Gran Canaria, La Palma[11]
British Airways	London–Gatwick, London–Heathrow[12]
Brussels Airlines	Brussels[13]
Condor	Berlin–Schönefeld ,[14] Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Stuttgart
Corendon Airlines Europe	Cologne/Bonn, Hannover ,[15] Münster/Osnabrück, Nuremberg[16]
Corendon Dutch Airlines	Amsterdam, Maastricht/Aachen[17]
easyJet	Berlin–Schönefeld, Bristol, Edinburgh, Liverpool, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Lyon, Manchester, Milan–Malpensa, Nantes, Nice Seasonal: Amsterdam, Bordeaux, London–Southend, Naples, Newcastle upon Tyne, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
easyJet Switzerland	Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva[18]
Edelweiss Air	Zürich
Enter Air	Katowice, Poznań, Warsaw–Chopin
Eurowings	Berlin–Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf[19] Seasonal: Hamburg,[19] Hannover
Evelop Airlines	Seasonal: Lisbon, Porto[20]
Finnair	Seasonal: Helsinki
Iberia Express	Madrid
Israir	Seasonal charter: Tel Aviv[21]
Jet2.com	Belfast–International, Birmingham, East Midlands, Edinburgh,[22] Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Lufthansa	Seasonal: Frankfurt (begins 3 October 2020),[23] Munich
Luxair	Luxembourg
Neos	Bologna, Milan–Malpensa, Rome–Fiumicino, Verona Seasonal: Catania,[24] Naples, Reykjavik–Keflavik
Norwegian Air Shuttle	London–Gatwick, Málaga Seasonal: Bergen, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Oslo–Gardermoen, Oulu, Stockholm–Arlanda Seasonal charter: Stavanger,[25] Trondheim[25]
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca[26]
Ryanair	Birmingham, Bologna, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cork, Charleroi, Dublin, Düsseldorf, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Glasgow–Prestwick, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Madrid, Manchester, Pisa, Seville, Shannon, Warsaw–Modlin Seasonal: Bergamo, Hahn, Kraków, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, Porto, Stuttgart, Wrocław
S7 Airlines	Moscow–Domodedovo
Scandinavian Airlines	Seasonal charter: Bergen[25]
Smartwings	Prague, Tel Aviv[27] Seasonal: Brno, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Smartwings Poland	Warsaw–Chopin
SkyUp	Seasonal: Kiev–Boryspil[28]
Sundair	Seasonal: Kassel[29]
TAP Air Portugal	Lisbon
TAROM	Seasonal: Bucharest
Transavia	Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Groningen,[30] Rotterdam
Transavia France	Paris–Orly Seasonal: Nantes
TUI Airways	Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Norwich Seasonal: Belfast–International Seasonal charter: Dublin[31]
TUI fly Belgium	Brussels, Charleroi, Liège, Ostend/Bruges, Paris–Orly
TUI fly Deutschland	Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin–Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Nuremberg, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Saarbrücken, Stuttgart
TUI fly Netherlands	Amsterdam Seasonal: Eindhoven,[32] Rotterdam
TUI fly Nordic	Seasonal charter: Gothenburg,[33] Oslo–Gardermoen,[25] Stockholm–Arlanda[33]
Ukraine International Airlines	Seasonal charter: Kiev–Boryspil[34]
Ural Airlines	Seasonal: Saint Petersburg[35]
Volotea	Bordeaux, Lyon (begins 18 October 2020),[36] Marseille (begins 17 October 2020),[37] Nantes, Toulouse
Vueling	Barcelona, Nantes, Paris–Orly, Rome–Fiumicino
Windrose Airlines	Seasonal charter: Kiev–Boryspil
Wizz Air	Bucharest, Budapest, Katowice,[38] London–Luton,[39] Milan-Malpensa ,[40] Vienna,[41] Warsaw–Chopin[42]

Statistics

Passengers

Tenerife South Airport passenger totals 2000–2019 (millions)

Updated: 16 May 2018[1]

	Passengers	Aircraft movements	Cargo (tonnes)
2000	9,111,065	62,096	12,019
2001	9,111,065	61,055	11,469
2002	8,980,465	63,527	10,769
2003	8,852,878	62,506	8,775
2004	8,632,178	62,824	9,218
2005	8,631,923	63,649	9,770
2006	8,845,668	65,774	9,414
2007	8,639,341	65,036	9,168
2008	8,251,989	60,779	8,567
2009	7,108,073	49,779	5,371
2010	7,359,150	51,858	4,293
2011	8,656,487	58,093	4,480
2012	8,530,729	56,210	3,906
2013	8,701,983	55,987	3,395
2014	9,176,274	60,290	3,376
2015	9,117,514	58,462	2,844
2016	10,472,713	65,882	2,809
2017	11,248,882	69,846	2,797
2018	11,042,481	69,910	2,483
2019	11,168,506	70,277	2,188
Source: Aena Statistics[1]

Routes

Busiest international routes at Tenerife South Airport (2018)[43]

Rank	City	Passengers
1	Manchester, United Kingdom	810,228
2	London Gatwick, United Kingdom	711,364
3	London Stansted, United Kingdom	354,159
4	Birmingham, United Kingdom	337,548
5	East Midlands, United Kingdom	329,798
6	Düsseldorf, Germany	314,033
7	Brussels, Belgium	274,903
8	Amsterdam, Netherlands	263,368
9	Edinburgh, United Kingdom	257,609
10	Newcastle, United Kingdom	249,369

Ground transport

The public bus service TITSA offers services to all parts of the island. Line 343 connects the South Airport (TFS) with Tenerife North Airport (TFN).

References

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External links

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