| Tenerife-South Airport Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur Tenerife Sur/Reina Sofía Airport |
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| IATA: TFS – ICAO: GCTS | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea | ||
| Serves | Tenerife | ||
| Location | Granadilla de Abona, Spain | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 64 m / 209 ft | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 08/26 | 3,200 | 10,498 | Asphalt |
| Statistics (2010) | |||
| Passengers | 7,359,150 | ||
| Passenger change 09-10 | 3.5% | ||
| Aircraft Movements | 51,858 | ||
| Movements change 09-10 | 4.2% | ||
| Sources: Passenger Traffic, AENA[1] Spanish AIP, AENA[2] |
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Tenerife South Airport (IATA: TFS, ICAO: GCTS), previously known as Tenerife South-Reina Sofia Airport, is one of two international airports located on the island of Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands (the second one being Tenerife North Airport). Between its opening and the end of 2006, a total of 173,912,207 passengers passed through the airport. The airport is the busiest of the two Tenerife airports.
The airport is located in the municipality of Granadilla de Abona and was inaugurated on 6 November 1978, by Queen Sofía of Spain, to whom the airport is dedicated; by the end of its first year, 1 million passengers had passed through its doors.
The public bus service TITSA offers cheap and quick services to all parts of the island, Line 343 connects the South Airport (TFS) with the North Airport (TFN)
Tenerife South handled over 7.3 million passengers in 2010. Combined with Tenerife North Airport, the island gathers the highest passenger movement in the Canary Islands with 11,410,305 passengers.[1]
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In the late sixties, the island authorities of Tenerife said they needed a new airport at a new location as the existing airport did not meet technical requirements due to adverse weather conditions.
In 1977, the control tower, Terminal building and taxiways were completed.
The airport was opened by Queen Sofía on 6 November 1978. The first flight was an Iberia running flight IB187 from Lanzarote, which was operated by a McDonnell Douglas DC-9. The flight landed at 10:17.[3]
Destinations by airline served from Tenerife South Airport:[4]
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Aer Lingus | Belfast-International, Dublin Seasonal: Cork |
| Air Berlin | Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Erfurt, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Hamburg, Leipzig/Halle, Münster/Osnabrück, Munich, Nuremberg, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Zürich Seasonal: Bremen, Stuttgart |
| Air Europa | Alicante, Asturias, Barcelona, Bilbao, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Madrid, Santiago de Compostela, Valencia, Vigo, Zaragoza Charter: Bucharest-Henri Coanda, Cork , Kristiansand, Norrköping, Paris-Orly, Tallinn |
| Air Finland | Seasonal: Helsinki |
| AirBaltic | Riga |
| ArkeFly | Amsterdam |
| Austrian Airlines operated by Lauda Air [5] | Vienna |
| Binter Canarias operated by Naysa | Gran Canaria |
| Bulgaria Air | Seasonal: Sofia |
| Cimber Air | Copenhagen |
| Condor | Berlin-Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Friedrichshafen, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Stuttgart |
| EasyJet | Berlin-Schönefel, Bristol, Edinburgh, London-Gatwick, Manchester |
| EasyJet Switzerland | Basel/Mulhouse [begins 16 December] |
| Edelweiss Air | Zürich |
| Europe Airpost | Paris-CDG, Lyon |
| Germania | Bremen, Karlsruhe/Baden Baden |
| Germanwings | Cologne/Bonn |
| Iberia | Madrid, Paris-Orly |
| I-Fly | Moscow-Vnukovo |
| Jet2 | Blackpool, East Midlands, Glasgow-International, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Jetairfly | Brussels, Brussels South-Charleroi, Gran Canaria, Liege, Ostend-Bruges |
| Luxair | Luxembourg |
| Meridiana Fly | Bologna, Milan-Malpensa, Verona |
| Monarch | Scheduled: Birmingham, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester |
| Neos | Bolonia, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Milan-Malpensa, Verona. |
| Niki | Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Salzburg, Vienna Seasonal: Graz, Linz |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle | Seasonal: Copenhagen, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Helsinki, Moss-Rygge, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda |
| Orbest Orizonia Airlines | Alicante, Asturias, Bilbao, Granada, Lisboa, Oporto, Pamplona, Santiago de Compostela, Valencia, Valladolid, Zaragoza |
| Ryanair | Barcelona, Beauvais, Bergamo, Billund, Birmingham, Bologna, Bristol, Bremen, Brussels South-Charleroi, Cork, Derry, Doncaster/Sheffield, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow-Prestwick, Hahn, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Knock, Leeds/Bradford [begins 27 March, 2012], Liverpool, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Manchester, Madrid, Palermo, Pisa, Porto, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Valencia, Weeze Seasonal: Bournemouth, Maastricht, Shannon |
| Small Planet Airlines | Seasonal charter: Vilnius |
| Spanair | Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid, Malaga, Santiago de Compostela Charter: Karlstad, Tampere |
| TAROM | Seasonal: Bucharest-Henri Coanda |
| Thomson Airways [6] | Charter: Aberdeen, Belfast-International, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster-Sheffield, Durham Tees Valley East Midlands, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow-International, Leeds-Bradford, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich |
| Thomas Cook Airlines [7] | Charter: Aberdeen, Belfast-International, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow-International, Leeds/Bradford, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia | Charter: Billund, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Orebro, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda |
| Transaero Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo |
| Transavia | Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Groningen, Maastricht, Rotterdam |
| Transvaia France | Paris-Orly |
| Travel Service | Praha - Ruzyne, Budapest Seasonal:Birmingham |
| TUIfly | Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hanover, Lanzarote, Munich, Stuttgart, Zweibrücken Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg, Nuremberg |
| VIM Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo |