Tenerife South Airport

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Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur Reina Sofía
Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code GCTS
IATA code TFS
Coordinates

28 ° 2 '40 "  N , 16 ° 34' 21"  W Coordinates: 28 ° 2 '40 "  N , 16 ° 34' 21"  W
Height above MSL 64 m (210  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 57 km southwest of Santa Cruz ,
15 km southeast of Playa de Las Américas
Street TF1
Local transport Bus transfer
Basic data
opening November 6, 1978
operator Aena
Terminals 1
Passengers 11,042,412 (2018)
Air freight 2,483 t (2018)
Flight
movements 		69,910 (2018)
Capacity
( PAX per year) 		12.8 million
Start-and runway
07/25 3200 m × 45 m asphalt

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The Tenerife South Airport ( IATA airport code TFS , ICAO code GCTs , span. Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur Reina Sofia ) is an international commercial airport on to Spain belonging island Tenerife . Reina Sofía Airport, which opened in 1978, handled around 67 percent of passenger traffic and 16 percent of freight traffic on the Canary Island in 2018 .

Location and transport links

The airport is located in the south of the island in the municipality of Granadilla de Abona .

Regular buses connect the airport with the south-east of the island, and there is a direct express connection to the island metropolis of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the north, about 50 km away, via the southern motorway.

history

The name Reina Sofía refers to the Spanish Queen Sophia , who opened the airport in 1978. It is the younger of the two island airports and was built specifically for tourist traffic, as Tenerife North Airport , which is over 30 years older, is often caught in the trade winds .

At the end of the 1970s, the airport and the construction of the Autopista del Sur de Tenerife (southern motorway TF-1) pushed development in the south of Tenerife and made the expansion of many places on the southeast coast, such as Abades , possible in the first place.

In July 2007, the Spanish Ministry of Promotion for Air Traffic pledged around one billion euros for the expansion of the airport by 2020. In order to be able to handle the planned 11 million passengers annually and thus to increase air traffic on Tenerife by 40 percent, a new arrival hall for passengers and a new maintenance hall for aircraft are planned in addition to an apron extension.

Airlines and Destinations

In charter traffic, mainly Spanish, German, British and Scandinavian destinations are served. Since 2007 there have also been direct connections to Eastern European destinations. Iberia and Iberia Express serve the Spanish hub Madrid on scheduled services . The other domestic routes are mainly served by Ryanair . Overall, however, domestic flights only account for nine percent of the passenger volume.

Traffic figures

Source: Aena
Traffic figures for the Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur Reina Sofía 2000–2018
year Passenger volume Air freight ( tons ) Flight movements
2018 11,042,412 2,483 69,910
2017 11,248,882 2,797 69,846
2016 10,472,713 2,809 65,882
2015 9,117,514 2,844 58,462
2014 9,176,235 3,378 60,290
2013 8,701,728 3,394 55,987
2012 8,530,729 3,906 56.210
2011 8,656,487 4,480 58.093
2010 7,358,986 4,294 51,858
2009 7.108.055 5,371 49,779
2008 8,251,989 8,567 60,779
2007 8,639,341 9,168 65,036
2006 8,845,668 9,415 65,774
2005 8,631,923 9,770 63,649
2004 8,632,178 9,218 62,824
2003 8,853,036 8,775 62.506
2002 8,980,465 10,770 63,527
2001 9,111,065 11,469 61,055
2000 8,849,129 12,020 62.096

Web links

Commons : Tenerife South Airport  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History. Aena.es , accessed November 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Introduction. Aena.es , accessed November 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Estadísticas de tráfico aéreo. Aena.es , accessed November 7, 2019 (Spanish).
  4. ↑ Destinations. Aena.es , accessed November 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b Estadísticas de tráfico aéreo. Aena.es , accessed December 20, 2018 .