Tenerife South Airport

Tenerife South Airport
Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur
Tenerife Sur/Reina Sofía Airport - 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 / 28.04444°N 16.57250°W / 28.04444; -16.57250Coordinates: 28°02′40″N 016°34′21″W / 28.04444°N 16.57250°W / 28.04444; -16.57250
Map
TFS
Location in the Canary Islands
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
07/25 3,200 10,498 Asphalt
Statistics (2017)
Passengers 2017 11,249,329
Passenger change 16-17 Increase 7.4%
Aircraft movements 69,846
Movements change 16-17 Increase 6.0%
Sources: Passenger Traffic, AENA[1]
Spanish AIP, AENA[2]

Tenerife South Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur) (IATA: TFS, ICAO: GCTS), previously known as Tenerife South–Reina Sofia Airport, 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 10.4 million passengers in 2016.

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.[3] 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.[4]

Airlines and destinations

Main hall
Control tower
Apron view
Exterior of airport

Destinations by airline served from Tenerife South Airport:[5]

AirlinesDestinations
Aeroflot Moscow–Sheremetyevo[6]
Aer Lingus Dublin
Seasonal: Cork
Air Europa Alicante,[7] Asturias, Manchester, Paris–Orly, Santiago de Compostela
Seasonal: Valencia, Bilbao
Austrian Airlines Vienna
Azur Air Seasonal charter: Moscow–Domodedovo
Belavia Seasonal charter: Minsk[8]
Binter Canarias Gran Canaria
British Airways London–Gatwick, London–Heathrow[9]
Brussels Airlines Brussels[10]
Condor Berlin–Schönefeld, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, Manchester, Munich, Stuttgart
Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn
Corendon Dutch Airlines Amsterdam, Fuerteventura
easyJet Berlin–Schönefeld, Bristol, Edinburgh, London–Gatwick, London–Luton,[11] Manchester, Milan–Malpensa, Nice
Seasonal: Amsterdam, London–Southend, Naples, Newcastle upon Tyne, Paris–Charles de Gaulle[12]
easyJet Switzerland Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva[13]
Edelweiss Air Zürich
Enter Air Katowice, Poznań, Warsaw–Chopin
Eurowings Berlin–Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf[14]
Seasonal: Hamburg,[14] Hannover
Evelop Airlines Seasonal: Lisbon, Porto[15]
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki
Germania Berlin–Tegel,[16] Bremen, Dresden, Erfurt/Weimar, Friedrichshafen, Münster/Osnabrück
Seasonal: Berlin–Schönefeld, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Rostock
Germania Flug Seasonal: Zurich
Iberia Madrid, Paris–Orly
Iberia Express Madrid
Seasonal: Lyon
Icelandair Seasonal charter: Reykjavík–Keflavík
Jet2.com Belfast–International, Birmingham, East Midlands, Edinburgh,[17] Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Jet Time Seasonal charter: Växjö
Laudamotion Seasonal: Düsseldorf[18]
Lufthansa Seasonal: Munich
Luxair Luxembourg
Neos Bologna, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Milan–Malpensa, Verona
Seasonal: Catania
Norwegian Air Shuttle Düsseldorf,[19] Edinburgh,[20] London–Gatwick, Málaga,[21] Rome–Fiumicino
Seasonal: Berlin–Schönefeld, Bilbao,[22] Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Oslo–Gardermoen, Oulu, Stockholm–Arlanda
Privilege Style Charter: Lisbon, Porto
Ryanair Barcelona, Beauvais, Belfast–International,[23] Bergamo, Billund, Birmingham, Bologna, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Cork, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Frankfurt,[24] Hahn, Kraków, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Madrid, Manchester, Memmingen, Newcastle, Pisa, Prestwick, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Sandefjord, Shannon, Valencia, Warsaw–Modlin, Weeze, Wrocław, Treviso
Seasonal: Copenhagen, Knock, Stockholm–Skavsta, Porto
S7 Airlines Moscow–Domodedovo[25]
Small Planet Airlines Glasgow
Seasonal charter: Vilnius, Birmingham
SmartWings Prague, Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion[26]
Seasonal: Lille,[27] Warsaw–Chopin
TAROM Seasonal: Bucharest
Thomas Cook Airlines Belfast–International, Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands, Glasgow, London–Gatwick, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Seasonal: Cardiff[28]
Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia Seaonal charter: Billund, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Malmö, Örebro, Oslo–Gardermoen, Stockholm–Arlanda
Transavia Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Rotterdam
Seasonal: Groningen (resumes 2 November 2018)[29]
Transavia France Paris–Orly
Travel Service Seasonal charter: Brno
TUI Airways Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford (ends 28 October 2018),[30] London–Gatwick, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Seasonal: Belfast–International, Norwich
Seasonal charter: Dublin
TUI fly Belgium Brussels, Charleroi, Liège, Ostend/Bruges
TUI fly Deutschland Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin–Tegel,[31] Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Nuremberg, Saarbrücken, Stuttgart
Seasonal: Karlsruhe/Baden–Baden (ends 2 November 2018),[32]
TUI fly Netherlands Amsterdam
Seasonal: Eindhoven,[33] Rotterdam
Ukraine International Airlines Seasonal charter: Kiev–Boryspil
Ural Airlines Seasonal: Saint Petersburg[34]
Volotea Bordeaux, Nantes, Toulouse
Seasonal charter: Jersey
Vueling Alicante, Barcelona, Granada,[35] Paris–Orly, Zürich
Seasonal: Málaga, Nantes,[36] Rome–Fiumicino,[37] Santander, Seville, Valencia, Zaragoza
Windrose Airlines Seasonal charter: Kiev–Boryspil
Wizz Air Bucharest,[38] Budapest, Katowice,[39] Vienna (begins 27 November 2018)[40]
WOW air Seasonal: Reykjavík–Keflavík[41]

Statistics

Passengers

Tenerife South Airport passenger totals 2000–2016 (millions)
Updated: 16 May 2018.[1]
PassengersAircraft movementsCargo (tonnes)
2000 9,111,06562,09612,019
2001 9,111,06561,05511,469
2002 8,980,46563,52710,769
2003 8,852,87862,5068,775
2004 8,632,17862,8249,218
2005 8,631,92363,6499,770
2006 8,845,66865,7749,414
2007 8,639,34165,0369,168
2008 8,251,98960,7798,567
2009 7,108,07349,7795,371
2010 7,359,15051,8584,293
2011 8,656,48758,0934,480
2012 8,530,72956,2103,906
2013 8,701,98355,9873,395
2014 9,176,27460,2903,376
Source: Aena Statistics[1]

Routes

Busiest international routes at Tenerife South Airport (2016)[42]
Rank City Passengers
1 United Kingdom Manchester, United Kingdom 873,558
2 United Kingdom London Gatwick, United Kingdom 865,637
3 United Kingdom Birmingham, United Kingdom 398,720
4 United Kingdom East Midlands, United Kingdom 307,191
5 United Kingdom Glasgow, United Kingdom 278,321
6 Netherlands Amsterdam, Netherlands 273,103
7 Belgium Brussels, Belgium 252,898
8 Germany Düsseldorf, Germany 251,943
9 United Kingdom London Stansted, United Kingdom 234,738
10 United Kingdom Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom 218,490

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

  1. 1 2 3 "Estadísticas – Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea – aena-aeropuertos.es". Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  2. ↑ Spanish AIP (AENA) Archived 7 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ "History Tenerife South Airport". Aena.es. Archived from the original on 2012-03-07. Retrieved 2012-09-25.
  4. ↑ "Airport at Tenerife Sur".
  5. ↑ "Airports of the World connected with: Tenerife". Aena.es. Archived from the original on 2012-07-24. Retrieved 2012-09-25.
  6. ↑ "Аэрофлот начинает полеты на Тенерифе". Новости. Aeroflot. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
  7. ↑ "Air Europa Adds Tenerife – Alicante Route from late-Oct 2015".
  8. ↑ "Belavia to launch charter flights to Tenerife on 18 March". BelTA – News from Belarus. Belarusian Telegraph Agency. 9 March 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  9. ↑ "British Airways plans additional European links from Heathrow in W17". Routesonline. 23 June 2017. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
  10. ↑ "brussels airlines Adds Canary Islands Service in W15". Airlineroute.net. 17 April 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  11. ↑ 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "easyJet Adds New London Luton Routes from Sep 2016". Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  12. ↑ "Tenerife South to Paris CDG - Cheap Flights £35.91 or less". Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  13. ↑ "Tenerife South to Geneva - Cheap Flights £48.73 or less". Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  14. 1 2 "Eurowings / germanwings Adds New Canary Islands Routes in W16".
  15. ↑ Evelop adds Spain – Portugal links in S18 Routesonline. 4 May 2018.
  16. ↑ https://www.flygermania.com/en-gb/
  17. ↑ "Jet2 announce massive growth at Edinburgh Airport". Edinburgh Airport. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  18. ↑ https://www.ryanair.com/la/en/cheap-flight-destinations
  19. ↑ Norwegian expands in Germany with new low-cost routes from Düsseldorf and Hannover 13 December 2016
  20. ↑ "Norwegian Adds New UK - Canary Islands Winter Routes from Oct 2015". Airlineroute.net. 13 May 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  21. ↑ "Norwegian to Launch Domestic Spain Routes from late-Oct 2015". Airlineroute.net. 10 July 2015. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
  22. ↑ 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "flydubai adds new seasonal destinations in S17". Retrieved 4 May 2017.
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  24. ↑ "Ryanair Stellt Winterflugplan 2017/2018 Für Frankfurt Am Main Vor". Ryanair.com. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
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  27. ↑ 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Smartwings adds various French routes in S17". Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  28. ↑ "Thomas Cook Airlines current flight timetable". Book.flythomascook.com. Retrieved 2012-09-25.
  29. ↑ https://www.groningenairport.nl/actueel/nieuws/deze-winter-weer-naar-tenerife-vanaf-groningen-airport-eelde
  30. ↑ https://www.tui.co.uk/flight/timetable
  31. ↑ [http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/275328/tuifly-expands-berlin-network-from-nov-2017/ TUIfly begin service from Berlin Tegel in November 2017)
  32. ↑ "TUI fly to terminate Karlsruhe presence in mid-4Q18". ch-aviation.com.
  33. ↑ https://www.luchtvaartnieuws.nl/nieuws/categorie/2/airlines/tui-fly-stationeert-vliegtuigen-in-rotterdam-en-eindhoven
  34. ↑ http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/274252/ural-airlines-adds-tenerife-service-in-w17/
  35. ↑ http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/273441/vueling-expands-granada-operation-from-dec-2017/
  36. ↑ 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Vueling plans new Nantes – Canaries service in W16". Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  37. ↑ "New Routes from Rome S16" (in Italian). 5 October 2015. Archived from the original on 7 October 2015. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
  38. ↑ 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "WizzAir Adds Bucharest - Tenerife Route from Nov 2016". Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  39. ↑ "WizzAir Adds New Canary Islands Service in W16".
  40. ↑ "WIZZ AIR ANNOUNCES AUSTRIAN BASE IN VIENNA WITH 3 BASED AIRCRAFT AND 17 NEW LOW-FARE ROUTES". wizzair.com. Archived from the original on 9 January 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  41. ↑ "Wow Air to Start Tenerife Service from April 2015". Airline Route. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  42. ↑ "Air traffic statistics". aena.

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