Tenerife South Airport

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).

Tenerife South Airport

Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur / Aeropuerto Internacional Reina Sofía

Tenerife Sur / Reina Sofía Airport - GCTS
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorAena
ServesTenerife
LocationGranadilla de Abona
Elevation AMSL64 m / 209 ft
Coordinates28°02′40″N 016°34′21″W
Map
TFS is located in Canary Islands
TFS
TFS
Location in the Canary Islands
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]
Spanish AIP, AENA[2]

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

In the late 1960s, the island authorities of Tenerife found the need for a second airport at a new location, because the existing 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 event of what became the deadliest aviation accident in history, when in 1977, two Boeing 747 collided on the runway at Los Rodeos, killing 583 people.

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.

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 a route to Newark using a Boeing 757 in June 2022. The flight operates seasonally.[12]

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 40 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.[13]

Airlines and destinations
Main hall (2010)
Control tower (2013)
Apron view (2007)
Exterior of airport (2010)

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

AirlinesDestinations
Aer Lingus Dublin
Seasonal: Cork (resumes 28 October 2023)[15]
airBaltic Seasonal: Riga, Tallinn (begins 30 October 2023),[16] Tampere (begins 1 November 2023),[17] Vilnius (begins 31 October 2023)[18]
Air France Seasonal: Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Austrian Airlines Vienna
Binter Canarias Gran Canaria
Seasonal: Funchal[19]
British Airways London–Gatwick, London–Heathrow
Brussels Airlines Brussels[20]
Chair Airlines Seasonal: Zürich[21]
Condor Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Stuttgart
Corendon Airlines Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hannover, Nuremberg
Corendon Dutch Airlines Amsterdam, Maastricht/Aachen[22]
Discover Airlines Seasonal: Frankfurt
easyJet Basel/Mulhouse, Belfast–International, Berlin, Bordeaux, Bristol, Edinburgh, Geneva, Liverpool, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Lyon, Manchester, Milan–Malpensa, Nantes, Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Seasonal: Amsterdam, Birmingham (begins 1 April 2024),[23] Glasgow[24]
Edelweiss Air Zürich
Eurowings Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf[25]
Seasonal: Berlin, Graz (begins 29 October 2023),[26] Hamburg,[25] Hannover (resumes 30 October 2023),[26] Salzburg, Stuttgart
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki
Iberia Express Madrid
Icelandair Reykjavik–Keflavík[27]
Jet2.com Belfast–International, Birmingham, Bristol,[28] East Midlands, Edinburgh,[29] Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool (begins 28 March 2024),[30] London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Lufthansa Frankfurt[31]
Seasonal: Munich
Luxair Luxembourg
Marabu Munich
Neos Bologna, Milan–Malpensa, Rome–Fiumicino, Verona
Norwegian Air Shuttle Copenhagen, Oslo
Seasonal: Aalborg (begins 31 October 2023),[32] Bergen, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Stavanger,[33] Stockholm–Arlanda
Play Reykjavík–Keflavík[34]
Ryanair Agadir, Barcelona, Bergamo, Berlin, Birmingham, Bologna, Bournemouth, Bristol, Budapest (begins 29 October 2023), Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Cork, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow–Prestwick, Knock (begins 2 November 2023),[35] Kraków, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Madrid, Málaga, Manchester, Marseille, Milan–Malpensa, Naples, Newcastle upon Tyne, Pisa, Porto, Rome–Fiumicino, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Shannon, Treviso, Valencia, Warsaw–Modlin
Seasonal: Beauvais, Bordeaux, Eindhoven, Hahn, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Memmingen, Nuremberg, Toulouse, Weeze
Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen[36]
Seasonal: Gothenburg,[36] Oslo,[36] Stockholm–Arlanda
Smartwings Prague
Seasonal: Brno
Sunclass Airlines[37][38][39][40] Seasonal charter: Aalborg, Billund, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Malmö, Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda
Sundair[41] Seasonal: Berlin, Bremen, Dresden, Kassel[42]
TAP Air Portugal Lisbon
TAROM Seasonal: Bucharest–Otopeni
Transavia Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Groningen, Paris–Orly, Rotterdam/The Hague
Seasonal: Brussels,[43] Lyon, Nantes
TUI Airways Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Dublin,[44] East Midlands, Exeter, Glasgow, London–Gatwick, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Norwich
Seasonal: Belfast–International, Edinburgh, London–Luton
TUI fly Belgium Antwerp,[45] Brussels, Liège, Ostend/Bruges
TUI fly Deutschland Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart
TUI fly Netherlands Amsterdam, Rotterdam
Seasonal: Eindhoven
TUI fly Nordic Seasonal charter: Gothenburg,[46] Oslo,[47] Stockholm–Arlanda,[46] Örebro
United Airlines Seasonal: Newark[48]
Volotea Asturias, Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Toulouse
Seasonal: Bilbao (begins 11 October 2023),[49] Lille[50]
Vueling Barcelona, London–Gatwick,[51] Paris–Orly
Seasonal: Amsterdam, Billund,[52] Copenhagen[53]
Wizz Air[54] Bucharest–Otopeni, Budapest, Gdańsk (begins 29 October 2023),[55] Katowice,[56] Rome–Fiumicino, Vienna,[57] Warsaw–Chopin[58]
Seasonal: Venice

Statistics

Passengers
Annual passenger traffic at TFS airport. See Wikidata query.
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
2015 9,117,51458,4622,844
2016 10,472,71365,8822,809
2017 11,248,88269,8462,797
2018 11,042,48169,9102,483
2019 11,168,50670,2772,188
Source: Aena Statistics[1]

Routes
Busiest international routes at Tenerife South Airport (2018)[59]
Rank City Passengers
1 Manchester, United Kingdom 810,228
2 London Gatwick, United Kingdom 711,364
3 London Stansted, United Kingdom 354,159
4 Birmingham, United Kingdom 337,548
5 East Midlands, United Kingdom 329,798
6 Düsseldorf, Germany 314,033
7 Brussels, Belgium 274,903
8 Amsterdam, Netherlands 263,368
9 Edinburgh, United Kingdom 257,609
10 Newcastle, United Kingdom 249,369

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). The planned Tren del Sur will serve the airport if it is built.

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