Fuerteventura Airport

Fuerteventura Airport
Aeropuerto de Fuerteventura
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner ENAIRE
Operator Aena
Serves Fuerteventura
Location Puerto del Rosario
Elevation AMSL 26 m / 86 ft
Coordinates 28°27′10″N 013°51′50″W / 28.45278°N 13.86389°W / 28.45278; -13.86389
Map
FUE
Location of airport in Canary Islands
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
01L/19R (closed) 2,140 7,021 Asphalt
01R/19L 3,406 11,175 Asphalt
Statistics (2016)
Passengers 5,676,817
Passenger change 15-16 Increase12.9%
Aircraft Movements 45,456
Movements change 15-16 Increase15.7%
Sources: Passenger Traffic, AENA[1]
Spanish AIP, AENA[2]

Fuerteventura Airport (IATA: FUE, ICAO: GCFV), also known as El Matorral Airport, is an airport serving the Spanish island of Fuerteventura. It is situated in El Matorral, 5 km (3.1 mi) southwest[3] of the capital city Puerto del Rosario. The airport has flight connections to over 80 destinations worldwide, and over 5.6 million passengers passed through it in 2016.[1]

The airport has one terminal building with two floors. The ground floor has two sections; one section is for flight arrivals and the other for flight departures. The first floor has the departures lounge and 24 boarding gates. In total, the terminal covers over 92,000 m² and it has the capacity to handle 8.2 million passengers per year.[4]

History

Early years

The airport was opened officially on 14 September 1969. The first plane to touch down on the new runway was an Iberia Fokker F27, which flew the route Las Palmas-Fuerteventura-Lanzarote.

In 1973, El Matorral Airport began to operate its first flights to European countries with the airline Condor, which linked the German city of Düsseldorf directly with Puerto del Rosario. In the following years, the airport experienced considerable growth in the number of operations, which resulted in a series of improvements, starting in 1978, to ensure that the working of the aerodrome continued to meet the needs of the passengers.

Development since the 1990s

In 1994, construction started on a new terminal building, an aircraft apron, a taxiway parallel to the runway, a power plant and a new access road. The works were completed with the extension of the car park and a detour on the Puerto de Rosario-Matorral, road adding some two kilometres, of which 1.5 are double lane. With the new facilities it was possible to attend around five million passengers a year and manage around 3,100 passengers per hour during rush-hour periods.[5]

Airlines and destinations

Aerial view
Terminal exterior
Puerto del Rosario Airport
view from the exterior
Iberia Airbus A320 at the airport
Cetrery car to disperse birds
Control tower
AirlinesDestinations
Aer Lingus Dublin
Air Europa Asturias, Barcelona, Bilbao, Málaga, Madrid, Santiago de Compostela
Air Europa Express Gran Canaria[6]
AlbaStar Seasonal charter: Milan–Malpensa
ASL Airlines France Seasonal charter: Brest, Nantes, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Atlantic Airways Billund
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna
Binter Canarias Gran Canaria, Tenerife–North
British Airways London–Gatwick
Brussels Airlines Brussels[7]
CanaryFly Gran Canaria, Tenerife–North
Condor Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, Manchester, Munich, Stuttgart
Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn (ends 27 October 2018)[8]
Corendon Dutch Airlines Amsterdam
easyJet Berlin–Tegel, Bristol, Liverpool, London–Gatwick
Seasonal: Amsterdam (begins 31 October 2018),[9] Belfast-International (begins 31 October 2018),[10] Hamburg, Lyon, Milan–Malpensa, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
easyJet Switzerland Basel/Mulhouse
Seasonal: Geneva
Edelweiss Air Zürich
Eurowings Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Munich, Nuremberg, Salzburg (begins 28 October 2018), Vienna[11]
Enter Air Seasonal charter: Gdańsk, Katowice, Poznań, Warsaw–Chopin, Wrocław
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki
Germania Berlin–Schönefeld,[12] Berlin–Tegel Bremen, Düsseldorf, Friedrichshafen, Hamburg, Münster/Osnabrück, Rostock
Seasonal: Dresden, Erfurt/Weimar, Nuremberg
Germania Flug Seasonal: Zurich
Iberia Regional Málaga, Santiago de Compostela, Sevilla, Valencia
Iberia Express Madrid
Jet Time Seasonal charter: Billund, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Örebro
Jet2.com Belfast–International, Birmingham, East Midlands, Edinburgh,[13] Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Laudamotion Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Berlin-Tegel,
Lufthansa Seasonal: Munich
Luxair Luxembourg
Neos Bologna, Milan–Malpensa Rome–Fiumicino, Verona
Norwegian Air Shuttle Stockholm–Arlanda,[14] London–Gatwick, Oslo–Gardermoen
Novair Billund, Copenhagen, Stockholm–Arlanda, Helsinki-Vantaa
Seasonal: Gothenburg, Karlstad, Malmö, Oslo–Gardermoen, Stavanger, Stockholm–Arlanda, Växjö
Privilege Style Lisbon, Porto
Ryanair Barcelona, Bergamo, Berlin–Schönefeld, Berlin–Tegel, Birmingham, Bremen, Charleroi, Dublin, Düsseldorf, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London–Stansted, Madrid, Manchester, Pisa, Prestwick, Shannon, Seville (begins 28 October 2018), Warsaw-Modlin, Weeze
Seasonal: London–Luton
Scandinavian Airlines Billund, Copenhagen, Luleå, Stockholm–Arlanda
Small Planet Airlines Seasonal charter: Vilnius
Small Planet Airlines (Poland) Seasonal charter: Gdańsk, Katowice, Kraków, Warsaw–Chopin, Wrocław
SmartLynx Airlines Seasonal charter: Riga
Smartlynx Airlines Estonia Seasonal charter: Tallinn[15]
SmartWings Prague
Seasonal: Warsaw–Chopin
Sundair Seasonal charter: Berlin-Tegel (Begins 8 November 2018), [16] Kassel (Begins 2 November 2018) [17]
SunExpress Deutschland Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, Nuremberg, Munich, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Stuttgart
Thomas Cook Airlines Birmingham, East Midlands, London–Gatwick, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Seasonal: Aberdeen, Belfast–International, Bristol, Glasgow
Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia Seasonal charter: Billund, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Stockholm–Arlanda
Transavia Amsterdam
Travel Service Brno, Ostrava, Prague
Travel Service Polska Seasonal charter: Gdańsk, Katowice, Kraków, Łódź, Lublin, Poznań, Warsaw–Chopin, Wrocław
TUI Airways Birmingham, East Midlands, London–Gatwick, Manchester
Seasonal: Bristol, London–Luton, London–Stansted
TUI fly Belgium Brussels, Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly, Strasbourg, Toulouse
TUI fly Deutschland Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin–Tegel,[18] Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden (ends 5 November 2018),[19] Nuremberg, Munich, Saarbrücken, Stuttgart
TUI fly Netherlands Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Rotterdam
TUI fly Nordic Seasonal charter: Stockholm–Arlanda
Volotea Bordeaux, Marseille (begins 23 December 2018), Nantes, Toulouse
Vueling Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bilbao, Málaga, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Santiago de Compostela, Rome–Fiumicino, Sevilla
White Airways Lisbon, Lyon, Nantes, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Porto
Wizz Air Budapest[20]

Statistics

Fuerteventura Airport Passenger Totals 2000-2016 (millions)
Updated: 16 January 2015. 2016 data Provisional.[1]
PassengersAircraft movementsCargo (tonnes)
2000 3,467,61431,6634,487
2001 3,577,63830,4713,837
2002 3,620,57632,5203,712
2003 3,919,22439,6953,694
2004 3,917,10939,8653,639
2005 4,071,87540,4153,178
2006 4,458,71144,0443,196
2007 4,629,87744,8703,127
2008 4,492,00344,5522,722
2009 3,738,49236,4291,913
2010 4,173,68639,4371,710
2011 4,948,01844,5511,557
2012 4,399,02337,7721,214
2013 4,259,34135,4981,022
2014 4,764,63240,066978
2015 5,027,41539,307937
2016 5,676,32345,456945
Source: Aena Statistics[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Estadísticas - Aeropuertos Españoles - aena.es". www.aena.es. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  2. ↑ "Spanish AIP (AENA)". Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  3. ↑ "EAD Basic - Error Page". www.ead.eurocontrol.int. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  4. ↑ "Fuerteventura Airport Guide". Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  5. ↑ http://www.aena-aeropuertos.es/csee/Satellite/Aeropuerto-Fuerteventura/en/Page/1048858925027/
  6. ↑ "Iniciamos los vuelos interislas Canarias".
  7. ↑ https://press.brusselsairlines.com/partnership-neckermann--thomas-cook-and-brussels-airlines-gives-belgian-holidaymakers-more-choice-more-flexibility-and-more-certainty-as-from-28-october
  8. ↑ https://www.condor.com/eu/book-plan/flights/timetable.jsp
  9. ↑ https://www.luchtvaartnieuws.nl/nieuws/categorie/2/airlines/easyjet-wisselt-op-schiphol-lyon-in-voor-fuerteventura
  10. ↑ https://www.belfastairport.com/blog-news/2018/july/easyjet-announces-three-new-routes-from-belfast-international-airport
  11. ↑ 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Eurowings Expands Vienna Network in W16". Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  12. ↑ 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Germania schedules new Berlin routes for W17". Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  13. ↑ "Cheap Flights - Find & Book Cheap Flights Online - Jet2.com". www.jet2.com. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  14. ↑ "Norwegian lanserar nya linjer till Madeira och Fuerteventura från Stockholm samt utökar antalet avgångar till Marrakech och Tel Aviv" (in Swedish). MyNewsdesk. 21 June 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
  15. ↑ http://www.smartlynx.aero/passengers/my-flight
  16. ↑ https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/280864/sundair-plans-new-routes-in-w18/
  17. ↑ https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/280864/sundair-plans-new-routes-in-w18/
  18. ↑ TUIfly begin service to Fuerteventura from November 2017
  19. ↑ "TUI fly to terminate Karlsruhe presence in mid-4Q18". ch-aviation.com.
  20. ↑ "Wizz Air announces two new routes". Retrieved 4 May 2017.

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