International airport serving Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
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
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.[5] By the end of its first year, 1 million passengers had passed through its doors.
The airport was constructed close to the Tomás Zerolo airfield , which closed when TFS opened.[6]
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.[7]
Airlines and destinations
Apron view (all of the airlines in this picture have ceased operations)
Destinations by airline served from Tenerife South Airport:[8]
Airlines Destinations Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo
Aer Lingus Dublin Seasonal: Cork
Air Europa Alicante ,[9] Manchester , Paris-Orly Seasonal: Asturias , Bilbao , Valencia
Alitalia Seasonal: Rome-Fiumicino
Animawings [10] Seasonal: Bucharest
Austrian Airlines Vienna
Azur Air Charter: Moscow-Vnukovo [11] Belavia Seasonal charter: Minsk [12] Binter Canarias Gran Canaria , La Palma [13] British Airways London-Gatwick , London-Heathrow [14] Brussels Airlines Brussels [15] Condor Düsseldorf , Frankfurt , Hamburg , Leipzig/Halle , Munich , Stuttgart , Zürich (begins 21 May 2021)[16] Corendon Airlines Cologne/Bonn , Düsseldorf (begins 6 May 2021),[17] Hannover ,[18] Münster/Osnabrück , Nuremberg [19] Corendon Dutch Airlines Amsterdam , Maastricht/Aachen [20] easyJet Basel/Mulhouse , Berlin , Bordeaux , Bristol , Edinburgh , Geneva , Liverpool , London-Gatwick , London-Luton , Lyon , Manchester , Milan-Malpensa , Nantes , Nice , Paris-Charles de Gaulle Seasonal: Amsterdam , Belfast-International , Naples , Toulouse
Edelweiss Air Zürich
Eurowings Cologne/Bonn , Düsseldorf [21] Seasonal: Hamburg [21] Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki
Iberia Express Madrid
Icelandair Reykjavik-Keflavík (begins 1 May 2021)[22] Israir Airlines Seasonal charter: Tel Aviv [23] Jet2.com Belfast-International , Birmingham , Bristol (begins 3 April 2021),[24] East Midlands , Edinburgh ,[25] Glasgow , Leeds/Bradford , London-Stansted , Manchester , Newcastle upon Tyne
Lufthansa Frankfurt [26] Seasonal: Munich
Luxair Luxembourg
Neos Bologna , Milan-Malpensa , Rome-Fiumicino , Verona
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Bergen , Copenhagen , Gothenburg , Helsinki , Málaga , Oslo , Oulu , Stockholm-Arlanda
Ryanair Bergamo , Birmingham , Bournemouth , Bristol , Charleroi , Dublin , East Midlands , Edinburgh , Frankfurt , Glasgow-Prestwick , Hahn , Kraków , Leeds/Bradford , Liverpool , London-Luton , London-Stansted , Madrid , Málaga , Manchester , Pisa , Santiago de Compostela , Seville , Treviso (begins 3 May 2021),[27] Warsaw-Modlin Seasonal: Bologna , Cork , Porto , Shannon , Wroc?aw
S7 Airlines Moscow-Domodedovo
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal charter: Bergen [28] Smartwings Prague
SkyUp [29] Seasonal: Kyiv-Boryspil
[30] [31] [32] [33] Seasonal charter: Aalborg , Billund , Copenhagen , Gothenburg , Helsinki , Malmö , Oslo , Stockholm-Arlanda
Sundair [34] Seasonal: Kassel
TAP Air Portugal Lisbon
TAROM Seasonal: Bucharest
Transavia Amsterdam , Eindhoven , Groningen , Paris-Orly , Rotterdam/The Hague Seasonal: Nantes
TUI Airways Aberdeen , Birmingham , Bristol , Cardiff , Doncaster/Sheffield , East Midlands , Edinburgh , Glasgow , London-Gatwick , London-Luton , London-Stansted , Manchester , Newcastle upon Tyne , Norwich Seasonal: Belfast-International , Bournemouth , Exeter Seasonal charter: Dublin [35] TUI fly Belgium Brussels , Charleroi , Liège , Lille , Ostend/Bruges
TUI fly Deutschland Berlin , Düsseldorf , Frankfurt , Hannover , Nuremberg , Saarbrücken , Stuttgart
Amsterdam Seasonal: Eindhoven ,[36] Rotterdam
TUI fly Nordic Seasonal charter: Gothenburg ,[37] Oslo ,[28] Stockholm-Arlanda [37] Seasonal charter: Kyiv-Boryspil [38] Ural Airlines Seasonal: Saint Petersburg [39] Volotea Bordeaux , Lyon ,[40] Marseille ,[41] Nantes , Toulouse Seasonal charter: Jersey [42] Vueling Barcelona , Paris-Orly , Rome-Fiumicino
Windrose Airlines Seasonal charter: Kiev-Boryspil
Wizz Air [43] Bucharest , Budapest , Cardiff (begins 26 March 2021),[44] Doncaster/Sheffield , Katowice ,[45] London-Luton , Milan-Malpensa , Vienna ,[46] Warsaw-Chopin [47]
Statistics
Passengers
Tenerife South Airport passenger totals 2000-2019 (millions)
Updated: 16 May 2018[1]
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]
Routes
Busiest international routes at Tenerife South Airport (2018) [48]
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).
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External links
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