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
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 5.5% Aircraft Movements 60,290 Movements change 13-14 7.7%
Sources: Passenger Traffic, AENA Spanish AIP, AENA

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. 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.

Airlines and destinations

Main hall

Control tower

Apron view

Destinations by airline served from Tenerife South Airport:

Airlines	Destinations
Aeroflot	Moscow–Sheremetyevo
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, Hamburg, Leipzig/Halle, Nuremberg, Zürich Seasonal: Munich, Stuttgart
Air Europa	Alicante, 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
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, Rome–Fiumicino (ends 6 February 2016) Seasonal: London–Southend, Newcastle upon Tyne
easyJet Switzerland	Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva
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)
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, London–Gatwick, Malaga Seasonal: Bergen, Berlin–Schönefeld, Birmingham, 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, London–Luton, Moss, Stockholm–Skavsta, Porto
Small Planet Airlines	Glasgow Seasonal charter: Vilnius
SmartWings operated by Travel Service Airlines	Prague
SmartWings operated by Travel Service Polska	Seasonal: Warsaw–Chopin
TAROM	Seasonal: Bucharest
Thomson Airways	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,Norwich
Thomas Cook Airlines	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)
Wizz Air	Seasonal: Budapest
XL Airways France	Lille

Statistics

Passengers

Tenerife South Airport Passenger Totals 2000-2013 (millions)

Updated: 16 January 2015. 2014 data provisional.

	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

Routes

Busiest international routes at Tenerife South Airport (2014)

Rank	City	Passengers
1	Manchester	751.605
2	London Gatwick	734.056
3	East Midlands	285.827
4	Birmingham	279,023
5	Glasgow	249,207
6	Düsseldorf	234,439
7	Brussels	220,643
8	Amsterdam	189,443
9	Newcastle upon Tyne	185,431
10	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).

External links

Media related to at Wikimedia Commons

• Official Website