Tenerife–South Airport

Tenerife South Airport
Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur
Tenerife Sur/Reina Sofía Airport - 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
07/25 3,200 10,498 Asphalt
Statistics (2016)
Passengers 2016 10,472,404
Passenger change 15-16 Increase 14.9%
Aircraft movements 58,461
Movements change 15-16 Increase 13.5%
Sources: Passenger Traffic, AENA[1]
Spanish AIP, AENA[2]

Tenerife South Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur) (IATA: TFS, ICAO: GCTS), previously known as Tenerife South–Reina Sofia Airport, 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 9 million passengers in 2014.

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.[3] By the end of its first year, 1 million passengers had passed through its doors.

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
Exterior of airport

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

AirlinesDestinations
Aeroflot Moscow–Sheremetyevo[6]
Aer Lingus Dublin
Seasonal: Cork
Air Europa Alicante,[7] Asturias, Paris–Orly, Santiago de Compostela
Seasonal: Valencia, Bilbao
ASL Airlines France Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Lyon, Strasbourg
Austrian Airlines Vienna
Azur Air Moscow–Domodedovo
Azur Air (Germany) Charter: Düsseldorf[8]
Belavia Seasonal charter: Minsk[9]
Binter Canarias
operated by NAYSA 		Gran Canaria (PSO)[10]
British Airways London–Gatwick
Seasonal: London-Heathrow (begins 21 October 2017)[11]
Brussels Airlines Brussels[12]
Condor Berlin–Schönefeld, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, Manchester, Munich, Stuttgart
Corendon Dutch Airlines Amsterdam, Fuerteventura
easyJet Amsterdam, Berlin–Schönefeld, Bristol, Edinburgh, London–Gatwick, London–Luton,[13] Manchester, Milan–Malpensa, Paris–Charles de Gaulle[14]
Seasonal: London–Southend, Newcastle upon Tyne
easyJet Switzerland Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva[15]
Edelweiss Air Zürich
Enter Air Katowice, Poznań, Warsaw–Chopin
Eurowings Düsseldorf,[16] Hamburg[16]
Eurowings
operated by Germanwings 		Cologne/Bonn
Seasonal: Hannover
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki
Germania Bremen, Dresden, Erfurt/Weimar, Friedrichshafen, Münster/Osnabrück
Seasonal: Berlin–Schönefeld, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Rostock
Iberia Madrid, Paris–Orly
Iberia Express Madrid
Seasonal: Lyon
Icelandair Seasonal charter: Reykjavík–Keflavík
Jet2.com Belfast–International, Birmingham, East Midlands, Edinburgh,[17] Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
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
Seasonal: Catania
Niki Vienna
Norwegian Air Shuttle
operated by Norwegian Air International 		Düsseldorf,[18] Edinburgh,[19] London–Gatwick, Málaga,[20] Rome–Fiumicino
Seasonal: Berlin–Schönefeld, Bilbao,[21] Birmingham, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Oslo–Gardermoen, Oulu, Stockholm–Arlanda
Privilege Style
operated by Swiftair 		Charter: Lisbon, Porto
Ryanair Barcelona, Beauvais, Belfast-International,[22] Bergamo, Billund, Birmingham, Bologna, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Cork, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Frankfurt (begins 05 September 2017),[23] Hahn, Kraków, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Madrid, Manchester, Memmingen, Newcastle, Pisa, Prestwick, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Sandefjord, Shannon, Valencia, Warsaw–Modlin, Weeze, Wrocław, Treviso
Seasonal: Copenhagen, Knock, Stockholm–Skavsta, Porto
Small Planet Airlines Glasgow
Seasonal charter: Vilnius, Birmingham
SmartWings
operated by Travel Service Airlines[24] 		Prague
Seasonal: Brno, Lille[25]
SmartWings
operated by Travel Service Polska[24] 		Seasonal: Warsaw–Chopin[26]
TAROM Seasonal: Bucharest
Thomas Cook Airlines[27] Belfast–International, Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands, Glasgow, London–Gatwick, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Seasonal: Cardiff
Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia Charter: Billund, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Malmö, Örebro, Oslo–Gardermoen, Stockholm–Arlanda
Thomson Airways[28] Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Exeter, Humberside,[29] Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Seasonal: Belfast–International, Humberside,[30] Norwich
Seasonal charter: Dublin
Transavia Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Munich,[31] Rotterdam
Transavia France Paris–Orly
TUI fly Belgium Brussels, Charleroi, Liège, Ostend/Bruges
TUI fly Deutschland Basel/Mulhouse, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Nuremberg, Stuttgart
Seasonal: Helsinki, Karlsruhe/Baden–Baden
TUI fly Netherlands Amsterdam
Ukraine International Airlines Seasonal charter: Kiev-Boryspil
Ural Airlines Seasonal: St. Petersburg (begins 27 October 2017)[32]
VIM Airlines Moscow–Domodedovo
Volotea Bordeaux, Nantes, Toulouse
Seasonal charter: Jersey
Vueling Alicante, Barcelona, Birmingham, Granada (begins 4 December 2017),[33] Manchester, Paris–Orly, Zürich
Seasonal: Málaga, Nantes,[34] Rome–Fiumicino,[35] Santander, Seville, Valencia, Zaragoza
Windrose Airlines Seasonal charter: Kiev-Boryspil
Wizz Air Bucharest,[36] Budapest, Katowice[37]
WOW air Seasonal: Reykjavík–Keflavík[38]

Statistics

Passengers

Tenerife South Airport Passenger Totals 2000-2016 (millions)
Updated: 16 January 2017. 2016 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 (2016)[39]
Rank City Passengers
1 United Kingdom Manchester, United Kingdom 873,558
2 United Kingdom London Gatwick, United Kingdom 865,637
3 United Kingdom Birmingham, United Kingdom 398,720
4 United Kingdom East Midlands, United Kingdom 307,191
5 United Kingdom Glasgow, United Kingdom 278,321
6 Netherlands Amsterdam, Netherlands 273,103
7 Belgium Brussels, Belgium 252,898
8 Germany Düsseldorf, Germany 251,943
9 United Kingdom London Stansted, United Kingdom 234,738
10 United Kingdom Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom 218,490

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).

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Estadísticas – Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea – aena-aeropuertos.es". Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  2. ↑ Spanish AIP (AENA) Archived 7 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ "History Tenerife South Airport". Aena.es. Retrieved 2012-09-25.
  4. ↑ "Airport at Tenerife Sur".
  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. ↑ "Air Europa Adds Tenerife – Alicante Route from late-Oct 2015".
  8. ↑ Anex Tour booking system 15 December 2016
  9. ↑ "Belavia to launch charter flights to Tenerife on 18 March". BelTA – News from Belarus. Belarusian Telegraph Agency. 9 March 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  10. ↑ https://ec.europa.eu/transport/sites/transport/files/modes/air/internal_market/doc/pso_inventory_table.pdf
  11. ↑ "British Airways plans additional European links from Heathrow in W17". Routesonline. 23 June 2017. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
  12. ↑ "brussels airlines Adds Canary Islands Service in W15". Airlineroute.net. 17 April 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  13. ↑ 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "easyJet Adds New London Luton Routes from Sep 2016". Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  14. ↑ "Tenerife South to Paris CDG - Cheap Flights £35.91 or less". Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  15. ↑ "Tenerife South to Geneva - Cheap Flights £48.73 or less". Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  16. 1 2 "Eurowings / germanwings Adds New Canary Islands Routes in W16".
  17. ↑ "Jet2 announce massive growth at Edinburgh Airport". Edinburgh Airport. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  18. ↑ Norwegian expands in Germany with new low-cost routes from Düsseldorf and Hannover 13 December 2016
  19. ↑ "Norwegian Adds New UK - Canary Islands Winter Routes from Oct 2015". Airlineroute.net. 13 May 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  20. ↑ "Norwegian to Launch Domestic Spain Routes from late-Oct 2015". Airlineroute.net. 10 July 2015. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
  21. ↑ 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "flydubai adds new seasonal destinations in S17". Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  22. ↑ "Ryanair Expands Belfast Service from Sep 2016".
  23. ↑ "Ryanair Stellt Winterflugplan 2017/2018 Für Frankfurt Am Main Vor". Ryanair.com. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  24. 1 2 "SmartWings Contact". smartwings.com.
  25. ↑ 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Smartwings adds various French routes in S17". Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  26. ↑ "SmartWings Flight schedule". smartwings.com.
  27. ↑ "Thomas Cook Airlines current flight timetable". Book.flythomascook.com. Retrieved 2012-09-25.
  28. ↑ "Thomson Airways current flight timetable". Flights.thomson.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-09-25.
  29. ↑ 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Thomson Adds Humberside – Tenerife Link in W16". Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  30. ↑ "Humberside Airport". Twitter.
  31. ↑ 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Transavia Introduces New Munich Routes in W16". Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  32. ↑ http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/274252/ural-airlines-adds-tenerife-service-in-w17/
  33. ↑ http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/273441/vueling-expands-granada-operation-from-dec-2017/
  34. ↑ 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Vueling plans new Nantes – Canaries service in W16". Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  35. ↑ "New Routes from Rome S16" (in Italian). 5 October 2015. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
  36. ↑ 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "WizzAir Adds Bucharest - Tenerife Route from Nov 2016". Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  37. ↑ "WizzAir Adds New Canary Islands Service in W16".
  38. ↑ "Wow Air to Start Tenerife Service from April 2015". Airline Route. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  39. ↑ http://www.aena.es/csee/Satellite?c=Page&cid=1113582476715&pagename=Estadisticas%2FEstadisticas. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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