Tenerife-South Airport

Tenerife–South Airport
Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur
Tenerife Sur/Reina Sofía Airport - GCTS
IATA: TFS – ICAO: GCTS
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator ENAIRE
Serves Tenerife
Location Granadilla de Abona, Spain
Elevation AMSL 64 m / 209 ft
Coordinates 28°02′40″N 016°34′21″W / 28.04444°N 16.57250°W / 28.04444; -16.57250Coordinates: 28°02′40″N 016°34′21″W / 28.04444°N 16.57250°W / 28.04444; -16.57250
Map
TFS

Location in the Canary Islands

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
08/26 3,200 10,498 Asphalt
Statistics (2014)
Passengers 9,176,274
Passenger change 13-14 Increase5.5%
Aircraft Movements 60,290
Movements change 13-14 Increase7.7%
Sources: Passenger Traffic, AENA[1]
Spanish AIP, AENA[2]

Tenerife South Airport (IATA: TFS, ICAO: GCTS), previously known as Tenerife South-Reina Sofia Airport, is the largest 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. It is located in the municipality of Granadilla de Abona and handled over 9 million passengers in 2014.

History

In the late 1960s, 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.

The new airport was inaugurated on 6 November 1978, by Queen Sofía of Spain, to whom the airport is dedicated. 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] By the end of its first year, 1 million passengers had passed through its doors.

In 1977, the control tower, terminal building and taxiways were completed before the Tenerife airport disaster occurred at Tenerife North Airport in March.

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.[4]

Airlines and destinations

Main hall
Control tower
Apron view

Destinations by airline served from Tenerife South Airport:[5]

AirlinesDestinations
Aeroflot Moscow–Sheremetyevo[6]
Aeroflot
operated by Rossiya 		Seasonal: Saint Petersburg
Aer Lingus Dublin
Seasonal: Cork
airBaltic Seasonal charter: Riga
Air Berlin Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin–Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig/Halle, Nuremberg, Zürich
Seasonal: Munich, Stuttgart
Air Europa Alicante,[7] Asturias, Paris–Orly, Santiago de Compostela
Seasonal: Valencia, Bilbao
Air Greenland Seasonal charter: Kangerlussuaq
AlbaStar Milan–Malpensa, Verona
ASL Airlines France Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Lyon, Strasbourg
Austrian Airlines Vienna
Binter Canarias
operated by NAYSA 		Gran Canaria
British Airways London–Gatwick
Brussels Airlines Seasonal: Brussels [8]
Condor Berlin–Schönefeld, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, Manchester, Munich, Stuttgart
easyJet Berlin–Schönefeld, Bristol, Edinburgh, London–Gatwick, Manchester, Milan–Malpensa, Paris–Charles de Gaulle,[9] Rome–Fiumicino[10] (ends 6 February 2016)
Seasonal: London–Southend, Newcastle upon Tyne
easyJet Switzerland Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva[11]
Edelweiss Air Zürich
Enter Air Bydgoszcz, Katowice, Poznań, Warsaw–Chopin
Finnair Seasonal:Helsinki
Germania Bremen, Erfurt/Weimar, Münster/Osnabrück
Seasonal: Berlin–Schönefeld, Kassel, Rostock
Charter: Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden
Germanwings Cologne/Bonn
Seasonal: Hannover
Iberia Madrid, Paris–Orly
Iberia Express Madrid
I-Fly Moscow–Vnukovo
Jet2.com Belfast–International, East Midlands, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Seasonal: Edinburgh (begins 12 February 2016)[12]
Jetairfly Brussels, Charleroi, Liège, Ostend/Bruges
Jet Time Charter: Växjö
Lufthansa Seasonal: Munich
Luxair Luxembourg
Meridiana Milan–Malpensa, Verona, Rome–Fiumicino
Monarch Airlines Birmingham, Leeds/Bradford, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Manchester
Neos Bologna, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Milan–Malpensa, Verona
Niki Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Salzburg, Vienna
Seasonal: Graz, Linz
Norwegian Air Shuttle Edinburgh,[13] London–Gatwick, Malaga[14]
Seasonal: Bergen, Berlin–Schönefeld, Birmingham,[13] Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Moss, Oslo–Gardermoen, Oulu, Sandefjord, Stockholm–Arlanda, Trondheim, Warsaw–Chopin
Primera Air Seasonal: Aalborg, Billund, Helsinki, Malmoe, Reykjavik, Stockholm
Privilege Style
operated by Swiftair 		Charter: Lisbon, Porto
Ryanair Barcelona, Beauvais, Bergamo, Billund, Birmingham, Bologna, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Hahn, Kraków, Leeds/Bradford, Linz, Liverpool, London–Stansted, Madrid, Manchester, Memmingen, Pisa, Prestwick, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Shannon, Valencia, Warsaw–Modlin, Weeze, Wrocław
Seasonal: Cork, Knock, London–Luton, Moss, Stockholm–Skavsta, Porto
Small Planet AirlinesGlasgow
Seasonal charter: Vilnius
SmartWings
operated by Travel Service Airlines[15]		 Prague
SmartWings
operated by Travel Service Polska[15]		Seasonal: Warsaw–Chopin[16]
TAROM Seasonal: Bucharest
Thomson Airways[17] Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Seasonal: Belfast–International, Dublin, Humberside,[18]Norwich
Thomas Cook Airlines[19] Belfast–International, Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands, Glasgow, London–Gatwick, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Seasonal: Aberdeen, Cardiff
Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia Charter: Billund, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Malmö, Örebro, Oslo–Gardermoen, Stockholm–Arlanda
Transavia Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Groningen, Rotterdam
Transavia.com France Paris–Orly
TUI Airlines Netherlands Amsterdam
TUIfly Basel/Mulhouse, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Nuremberg, Stuttgart
Seasonal: Helsinki, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden
VIM Airlines Moscow–Domodedovo
Volotea Bordeaux, Nantes, Toulouse
Vueling Barcelona
Seasonal: Rome–Fiumicino (begins 7 August 2016)[20]
Wizz Air Seasonal: Budapest[21]
XL Airways France Lille

Statistics

Passengers

Tenerife South Airport Passenger Totals 2000-2013 (millions)
Updated: 16 January 2015. 2014 data provisional.[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
Source: Aena Statistics[1]

Routes

Busiest international routes at Tenerife South Airport (2014)[22]
Rank City Passengers
1 United Kingdom Manchester 751.605
2 United Kingdom London Gatwick 734.056
3 United Kingdom East Midlands 285.827
4 United Kingdom Birmingham 279,023
5 United Kingdom Glasgow 249,207
6 Germany Düsseldorf 234,439
7 Belgium Brussels 220,643
8 Netherlands Amsterdam 189,443
9 United Kingdom Newcastle upon Tyne 185,431
10 United Kingdom London Stansted 173,692

Ground transport

The public bus service TITSA offers cheap and quick services to all parts of the island, Line 343 also connects the South Airport (TFS) with Tenerife North Airport (TFN).

References

  1. 1 2 3 "AENA passenger statistics and aircraft movements". Aena.es. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  2. ↑ "Spanish AIP (AENA)". Aena.es. Retrieved 2012-09-25.
  3. ↑ "History Tenerife South Airport". Aena.es. Retrieved 2012-09-25.
  4. ↑ http://www.aena.es/csee/Satellite?Language=EN_GB&ca=TFS&pagename=cartografia&ps=t
  5. ↑ "Airports of the World connected with: Tenerife". Aena.es. Retrieved 2012-09-25.
  6. ↑ "Аэрофлот начинает полеты на Тенерифе". Новости. Aeroflot. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
  7. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2015/08/25/ux-tfnalc-w15/
  8. ↑ "brussels airlines Adds Canary Islands Service in W15". Airlineroute.net. 17 April 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  9. ↑ "Tenerife South to Paris CDG - Cheap Flights £35.91 or less". Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  10. ↑ http://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news/38292-easyjet-to-drop-rome-base-in-favour-of-venice-from-2q2016
  11. ↑ "Tenerife South to Geneva - Cheap Flights £48.73 or less". Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  12. ↑ "Jet2 announce massive growth at Edinburgh Airport". Edinburgh Airport. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  13. 1 2 "Norwegian Adds New UK - Canary Islands Winter Routes from Oct 2015". Airlineroute.net. 13 May 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  14. ↑ "Norwegian to Launch Domestic Spain Routes from late-Oct 2015". Airlineroute.net. 10 July 2015. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
  15. 1 2 "SmartWings Contact". smartwings.com.
  16. ↑ "SmartWings Flight schedule". smartwings.com.
  17. ↑ "Thomson Airways current flight timetable". Flights.thomson.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-09-25.
  18. ↑ https://twitter.com/Humberside/status/675631663318245376
  19. ↑ "Thomas Cook Airlines current flight timetable". Book.flythomascook.com. Retrieved 2012-09-25.
  20. ↑ "New Routes from Rome S16" (in Italian). 5 October 2015. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
  21. ↑ http://www.origo.hu/utazas/hirek/20150420-huszezer-alatti-arrol-indul-a-wizz-air-tenerifere.html/
  22. ↑ "Tenerife South Airport passengers statistics". Aena.es. Retrieved 2014-03-05.

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