Tenerife South Airport
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| Tenerife South Airport (Reina Sofía) |
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| IATA: TFS - ICAO: GCTS | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Aena | ||
| Serves | Los Cristianos | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 209 ft (64 m) | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 08/26 | 10,498 | 3,200 | Concrete |
Tenerife South Airport (IATA: TFS, ICAO: GCTS), is one of two international airports on the island of Tenerife in Spain. The airport is located 9km away from the popular British resorts of Los Cristianos and Las Americas and are served by this mainly tourist airport.
The public bus service TITSA offers cheap and quick services to all parts of the island and line 340 connects to the other airport Tenerife North Airport which is 71 km by road
[edit] History
The airport is located in the municipality of Granadilla de Abona,and was inaugurated on November 6, 1978, by Queen Sofía of Spain, after whom the airport is dedicated; by the end of its first year, 1 million passengers had passed through its doors. [1]
[edit] Airlines and destinations
The following carriers fly to Tenerife South Airport.
- Aerosur (Madrid)
- Aer Lingus (Cork, Dublin)
- Air Berlin (Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund, Dresden, Dusseldorf, Erfurt, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig/Halle, Munster, Nuremburgm, Paderborn, Rostock, Zurich)
- Air Europa (Alicante, Asturias, Barcelona, Bilbao, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Madrid, Santiago de Compostela, Vigo, Zaragoza)
- Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
- Binter Canarias (Gran Canaria, La Palma, Lanzarote)
- British Airways operated by GB Airways (Bristol, London-Gatwick, Manchester (UK), Nottingham)
- Channel Express (Belfast, Blackpool, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester (UK), Newcastle)
- Condor (Berlin-Schönefeld, Berlin-Tegel, Bremen, Cologne/Bonn, Dresden, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Gran Canaria, Hamburg, Hanover, Lanzarote, Leipzig/Halle, Paderborn, Stuttgart)
- Eurofly (Bologna, Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino, Verona)
- Excel Airways (Manchester (UK), London-Gatwick)
- Finnair (Helsinki)
- First Choice Airways (Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Midlands, Exeter, Glasgow, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Manchester)
- Flyglobespan (Aberdeen, Durham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, London-Stansted)
- Hapagfly (Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin-Tegel, Bremen, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Gran Canaria, Hamburg, Hanover, arlsruhe, Leipzig/Halle, Munster, Nuremburg, Stuttgart)
- Iberia (Madrid)
- Jet2 (Belfast, Blackpool, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle)
- LTE International Airways (Basel/Mulhouse, Newcastle)
- LTU International (Berlin-Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Fuerteventura)
- Luxair (Gran Canaria, Luxembourg)
- Monarch Airlines (Birmingham (UK), London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester (UK))
- Neos (Milan-Malpensa)
- Niki Luftfahrt (Linz, Salzburg, Vienna)
- S7 Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo)
- Spanair (Alicante, Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid, Malaga, Santiago de Compostela, Sevilla, Valencia, Vigo)
- Sterling Airlines (Copenhagen, Oslo)
- Thomas Cook Airlines (Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Durham, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Humberside, Leeds/Bradford, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich)
- Thomsonfly (Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster, Durham, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Humberside, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich)
- Transaero (Moscow-Domodedovo)
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