Tenerife South Airport
Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur Reina Sofía | |
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Characteristics | |
ICAO code | GCTS |
IATA code | TFS |
Coordinates | |
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 | |
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 |
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
year | Passenger volume | Air freight ( tons ) | Flight movements |
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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
- Official website of the airport (German, English, Spanish)
- Official website of the operator (English, Spanish)
- Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
Individual evidence
- ^ History. Aena.es , accessed November 7, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Introduction. Aena.es , accessed November 7, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Estadísticas de tráfico aéreo. Aena.es , accessed November 7, 2019 (Spanish).
- ↑ Destinations. Aena.es , accessed November 7, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Estadísticas de tráfico aéreo. Aena.es , accessed December 20, 2018 .