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Tenerife South Airport

Coordinates: 28°02′40″N 016°34′21″W / 28.04444°N 16.57250°W / 28.04444; -16.57250
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Tenerife South Airport

Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur

Tenerife Sur Airport - GCTS
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorAena
ServesTenerife
LocationGranadilla de Abona
Elevation AMSL64 m / 209 ft
Coordinates28°02′40″N 016°34′21″W / 28.04444°N 16.57250°W / 28.04444; -16.57250
Websitehttps://www.aena.es/en/tenerife-sur.html
Map
TFS is located in Canary Islands
TFS
TFS
Location in the Canary Islands
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
07/25 3,200 10,498 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers11,168,506
Passenger change 18-19Increase 1.1%
Movements70,277
Movements change 18-19Increase 0.5%
Cargo (t)2,188
Sources: Passenger Traffic, AENA [1][1]
Spanish AIP, AENA[2]

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.

History

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In the late 1960s, the island authorities of Tenerife found the need for a second airport at a new location, because the existing airport (then called "Los Rodeos Airport"), now known as Tenerife North–Ciudad de La Laguna Airport, did not meet technical requirements due to adverse weather conditions, especially low visibility in foggy conditions; this was exemplified by the events of what became the deadliest aviation accident in history, when in 1977, two Boeing 747s collided on the runway at Los Rodeos, killing 583 people, in part, due to very low visibility.

Only 20 months later, with the disaster still fresh in people's minds, 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] The airport was constructed close to the Tomás Zerolo airfield, which closed when TFS opened.[6] By the end of its first year, 1 million passengers had passed through its doors.[citation needed]

In June 1980, Viasa inaugurated flights to Caracas. The link served the large proportion of the Canarian diaspora that resided in Venezuela.[7] The airline ceased operations in 1997, after which Avensa started plying the route.[8][9] Due to financial problems, Avensa later let Santa Bárbara Airlines take over its flights to Spain and then began code-sharing on them.[8][10] In October 2002, Santa Bárbara commenced service to Reina Sofía Airport using a McDonnell Douglas DC-10. It switched to Tenerife North Airport four months later.[11]

United Airlines launched thrice weekly-service to Tenerife from Newark in June 2022, using a Boeing 757-200.[12]

Terminal

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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 40 boarding gates of which ten are equipped with jetbridges. While the upper floor 1 contains office space and transit corridors, the basement level -1 features additional luggage belts.[13]

Airlines and destinations

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The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Tenerife South Airport:[14]

AirlinesDestinations
Aer Lingus Cork,[15] Dublin
airBaltic Seasonal: Riga, Tallinn,[16][better source needed], Vilnius[17][better source needed]
Austrian Airlines Vienna[18]
Binter Canarias Gran Canaria
Seasonal: Funchal[19]
Braathens International Airways Seasonal charter: Billund,[20] Gothenburg,[21] Oslo[22]
British Airways London–Gatwick,[23] London–Heathrow[24]
Brussels Airlines Brussels[25][26]
Condor Düsseldorf,[27] Frankfurt,[28] Hamburg, Leipzig/Halle, Munich
Seasonal: Stuttgart
Corendon Airlines Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hannover
Seasonal: Nuremberg
Corendon Dutch Airlines Amsterdam
Discover Airlines Frankfurt, Munich[29]
easyJet Basel/Mulhouse, Belfast–International, Berlin, Birmingham,[30] Bordeaux, Bristol, Edinburgh, Geneva, Liverpool, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Lyon, Manchester,[31] Milan–Malpensa, Nantes, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Seasonal: Amsterdam, Glasgow,[32] London–Southend (begins 1 April 2025),[33] Nice
Edelweiss Air Zürich[34]
Eurowings Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf[35]
Seasonal: Berlin, Graz,[36] Hamburg,[35] Hannover,[36] Salzburg, Stuttgart
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki[37]
Iberia Express Madrid
Icelandair Reykjavik–Keflavík[38][39]
Jet2.com Belfast–International, Birmingham, Bournemouth (begins 1 April 2025),[40] Bristol,[41] East Midlands, Edinburgh,[42] Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool,[43] London–Luton (begins 1 April 2025), London–Stansted, Manchester,[44] Newcastle upon Tyne
Seasonal charter: London–Gatwick[citation needed]
LOT Polish Airlines Seasonal: Warsaw–Chopin (begins 27 November 2024)[45]
Lufthansa Seasonal: Munich
Luxair Luxembourg[46]
Marabu Cologne/Bonn,[47] Munich
Neos Bologna, Rome–Fiumicino
Seasonal: Milan–Malpensa, Verona
Norwegian Air Shuttle Copenhagen, Oslo
Seasonal: Aalborg,[48] Bergen, Helsinki, Stavanger,[49] Stockholm–Arlanda
Play Reykjavík–Keflavík[50][51]
Royal Air Maroc Seasonal: Casablanca[52]
Ryanair Agadir, Barcelona, Bergamo,[53] Berlin, Birmingham, Bologna, Bournemouth, Bristol, Budapest,[54] Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Cork, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Eindhoven,[55] Glasgow–Prestwick, Knock,[56][57] Kraków, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Madrid, Málaga, Manchester, Marseille, Milan–Malpensa, Naples, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nuremberg, Pisa, Rome–Fiumicino, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Shannon, Treviso, Valencia, Vienna, Warsaw–Modlin
Seasonal: Beauvais, Cardiff,[58] Hahn, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Marrakesh,[59] Memmingen, Porto,[60] Toulouse, Weeze
Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen[61]
Seasonal: Oslo,[61] Stockholm–Arlanda
Smartwings Prague
Seasonal: Brno
Seasonal charter: Jersey (begins 20 December 2024)[62]
Sunclass Airlines[63][64][65][66] Seasonal charter: Aalborg, Billund, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Malmö, Oslo,[67] Stockholm–Arlanda
Sundair[68] Seasonal: Berlin, Bremen, Dresden, Kassel[69]
TAP Air Portugal Lisbon
Transavia Amsterdam, Brussels,[70] Eindhoven, Paris–Orly, Rotterdam/The Hague
Seasonal: Nantes
TUI Airways Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Dublin,[71] East Midlands, Exeter,[72] Glasgow, London–Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Norwich
Seasonal: Aberdeen, Belfast–International, London–Luton, London–Stansted
TUI fly Belgium Antwerp,[73] Brussels,[74] Liège, Ostend/Bruges
TUI fly Deutschland Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart
TUI fly Netherlands Amsterdam,[75] Eindhoven, Rotterdam
TUI fly Nordic Seasonal charter: Gothenburg, Stockholm–Arlanda
United Airlines Newark (ends 2 May 2025)[76][77]
Volotea Asturias, Bilbao,[78] Bordeaux, Lyon, Nantes, Toulouse
Seasonal: Brest,[79] Lille,[80] Marseille
Vueling Barcelona, Paris–Orly
Wizz Air[81] Bucharest–Otopeni, Budapest, Gdańsk,[82] Katowice,[83] Milan–Malpensa,[84] Rome–Fiumicino, Venice, Vienna,[85] Warsaw–Chopin[86]

Statistics

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Terminal exterior
Control tower
Apron view

Passengers

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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]

Busiest routes

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Busiest european routes from TFS (2023)
Rank Destination Passengers Change 2021 / 22
1 Manchester 963,741 Increase 16%
2 London-Gatwick 712,288 Increase 24%
3 London-Stansted 519,686 Increase 15%
4 Birmingham 393,055 Increase 11%
5 Bristol 369,394 Increase 26%
6 East Midlands 321,549 Increase 16%
7 Edinburgh 320,816 Increase 12%
8 Brussels 311,785 Increase 14%
9 Dublin 285,481 Increase 20%
10 Düsseldorf 284,990 Increase 16%
11 Newcastle 270,219 Increase 12%
12 Frankfurt 268,081 Increase 8%
13 Amsterdam 261,813 Decrease 2%
14 Glasgow 244,089 Increase 11%
15 Leeds/Bradford 232,589 Increase 20%
16 Milan-Malpensa 199,739 Decrease 8%
17 London-Luton 173,764 Decrease 19%
18 Vienna 169,753 Increase 29%
19 Berlin 165,466 Increase 5%
20 Munich 162,859 Increase 12%
Source: Estadísticas de tráfico aereo[87]
Busiest domestic routes from TFS (2023)
Rank Destination Passengers Change 2021 / 22
1 Madrid 417,917 Increase 10%
2 Gran Canaria 204,484 Increase 15%
3 Santiago de Compostela 140,903 Increase 16%
4 Barcelona 74,668 Increase 15%
5 Seville 63,714 Increase 20%
6 Lanzarote 59,698 Increase 57%
7 La Palma 55,257 Increase 99%
8 Valencia 41,304 Increase 17%
9 Málaga 37,369 Decrease 1%
10 Asturias 16,429 Decrease 21%
Source: Estadísticas de tráfico aereo[87]

Ground transport

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Bus services

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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). The planned Tren del Sur will serve the airport if it is built.[citation needed]

Car rental

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Several car rental companies authorized by AENA operate at Tenerife South Airport. These companies are located in the arrivals halls for both domestic and international flights. There are other car rental companies operating outside the airport, but they are not authorized by AENA.[88]

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