Fuerteventura Airport

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Fuerteventura Airport Aeropuerto de Fuerteventura
IATA: FUE – ICAO: GCFV FUE Location of airport in Canary Islands
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea
Serves	Fuerteventura
Location	Puerto del Rosario
Elevation AMSL	26 m / 86 ft
Coordinates
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 01L/19R (closed) 2,140 7,021 Asphalt 01R/19L 3,406 11,175 Asphalt
Statistics (2014)
Passengers 4,764,632 Passenger change 13-14 11.9 Aircraft Movements 40,066 Movements change 13-14 12.9
Sources: Passenger Traffic, AENA Spanish AIP, AENA

Fuerteventura Airport (IATA: FUE, ICAO: GCFV), also known as El Matorral Airport, is an airport serving the Spanish island of Fuerteventura. It is situated in El Matorral site, 5 km (3.1 mi) southwest of the capital city Puerto del Rosario.

History

Early years

The airport was opened officially on 14 September 1969. The first plane to touch down on the new runway was an Iberia Fokker F27, which flew the route Las Palmas-Fuerteventura-Lanzarote.

In 1973 El Matorral Airport began to operate its first flights to European countries with the airline Condor, which linked the German city of Düsseldorf directly with Puerto del Rosario. In the following years, the airport experienced considerable growth in the number of operations, which resulted in a series of improvements, starting in 1978, to ensure that the working of the aerodrome continued to meet the needs of the passengers.

Development since the 1990s

In 1992, the airport received more than 1,600,000 passengers, which made it necessary to carry out extensive refurbishment of the terminal and aircraft parking areas.

In 1994, construction started on a new terminal building, an aircraft apron, a taxiway parallel to the runway, a power plant and a new access road. The works were completed with the extension of the car park and a detour on the Puerto de Rosario-Matorral, road adding some two kilometres, of which 1.5 are double lane. With the new facilities it was possible to attend around five million passengers a year and manage around 3,100 passengers per hour during rush-hour periods.

Airlines and destinations

Edelweiss Air Airbus A320 taxiing at Fuerteventura Airport

Iberia Airbus A320 landing at Fuerteventura Airport

Airlines	Destinations
Aer Lingus	Dublin
Aigle Azur	Paris–Orly
Air Berlin	Berlin–Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Nuremberg, Zürich
Air Europa	Asturias, Barcelona, Bilbao, Málaga, Madrid, Santiago de Compostela
Air Mediterranee	Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse Seasonal: Brest, Dole (both begin 10 January 2016)
ASL Airlines Ireland	Seasonal charter: Dublin (begins 4 June 2016)
Atlantic Airways	Billund
Austrian Airlines	Vienna
Air VIA	Frankfurt, Hamburg
Binter Canarias operated by NAYSA	Gran Canaria, Tenerife–North
British Airways	London–Gatwick
CanaryFly	Gran Canaria, Tenerife–North
Condor	Berlin-Schönefeld, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, Manchester, Munich, Stuttgart
Corendon Dutch Airlines	Amsterdam
easyJet	Bristol, Hamburg, Liverpool, London–Gatwick
easyJet Switzerland	Basel/Mulhouse
Edelweiss Air	Zürich
Europe Airpost	Brest, Nantes, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Enter Air	Biarritz, Gdańsk, Katowice, Lyon, Nantes, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Poznań, Saint-Étienne, Toulouse, Warsaw–Chopin, Wrocław
Finnair	Helsinki
Germania	Bremen, Münster/Osnabrück Seasonal: Dresden, Dortmund (ends 4 May 2016), Erfurt/Weimar, Kassel, Rostock
Germanwings	Cologne/Bonn
Helvetic Airways	Geneva, Zürich
Iberia operated by Air Nostrum	Málaga, Santiago de Compostela, Sevilla, Valencia
Iberia Express	Madrid
Jetairfly	Brussels, Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly, Strasbourg, Toulouse
Jet Time	Billund, Copenhagen, Göteborg–Landvetter, Helsinki, Örebro (begins 22 February 2016)
Jet2.com	Belfast–International (begins 25 May 2016), East Midlands, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Lufthansa	Seasonal: Munich
Luxair	Luxembourg
Meridiana	Milan–Malpensa, Rome–Fiumicino, Verona
Monarch Airlines	Birmingham, London–Gatwick, Manchester
Neos	Bologna, Milan–Malpensa Rome-Fiumicino, Verona
Niki	Salzburg, Vienna Seasonal: Linz
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Barcelona, London–Gatwick, Oslo–Gardermoen
Novair	Seasonal: Copenhagen, Göteborg–Landvetter, Karlstad, Malmö, Oslo–Gardermoen, Stavanger, Stockholm–Arlanda, Växjö
Primera Air	Aalborg, Aarhus, Billund, Copenhagen, Göteborg–Landvetter, Helsinki, Joensuu, Jönköping, Jyväskylä, Kokkola, Kuopio, Lappeenranta, Pori, Malmö, Norrköping, Oulu, Örebro, Oslo–Gardermoen, Stockholm–Arlanda, Växjö
Privilege Style operated by Swiftair	Lisbon, Porto
Ryanair	Barcelona, Bergamo, Birmingham, Bremen, Charleroi, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London–Stansted, Madrid, Manchester, Pisa, Prestwick, Shannon, Warsaw-Modlin, Weeze Seasonal: London–Luton
Scandinavian Airlines	Billund, Copenhagen, Luleå, Stockholm–Arlanda
Small Planet Airlines	Brest, Clermont-Ferrand, Katowice, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Warsaw–Chopin, Zielona Góra
SmartWings operated by Travel Service	Seasonal: Prague
SmartWings operated by Travel Service Polska	Seasonal: Warsaw-Chopin
SunExpress Deutschland	Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, Nuremberg, Munich, Paderborn/Lippstadt (begins 2 May 2016), Stuttgart
Thomas Cook Airlines	Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands, Glasgow, London–Gatwick, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester Seasonal: Aberdeen, Belfast–International, Cardiff, London–Stansted, Newcastle upon Tyne
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium	Brussels, Lille
Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia	Billund, Copenhagen, Göteborg–Landvetter, Stockholm–Arlanda
Thomson Airways	Birmingham, East Midlands, Glasgow, London–Gatwick, Manchester Seasonal: Bristol, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Newcastle upon Tyne
Transavia	Amsterdam
Transavia France	Paris–Orly
Travel Service	Bordeaux, Bratislava, Brest, Clermont-Ferrand, Gdańsk, Katowice, Kraków, Lille, Łódź, Lourdes, Lublin, Lyon, Nantes, Nice, Ostrava, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Poznań, Prague, Toulouse, Warsaw–Chopin, Warsaw-Modlin, Wrocław
TUI Airlines Netherlands	Amsterdam, Eindhoven
TUIfly	Basel/Mulhouse, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg (ends 31 March 2016), Hannover, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Nuremberg, Munich, Saarbrücken, Stuttgart
TUIfly Nordic	Stockholm–Arlanda
Volotea	Bordeaux, Nantes
Vueling	Barcelona, Bilbao, Málaga, Paris-Charles de Gaulle (begins 7 May 2016), Paris–Orly (ends 30 April 2016), Rome-Fiumicino (begins 28 June 2016), Santiago de Compostela Seasonal: Sevilla
XL Airways France	Lille, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
White Airways	Lisbon, Lyon, Nantes, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Porto

Statistics

Fuerteventura Airport Passenger Totals 2000-2013 (millions)

Updated: 16 January 2015. 2014 data Provisional.

	Passengers	Aircraft movements	Cargo (tonnes)
2000	3,467,614	31,663	4,487
2001	3,577,638	30,471	3,837
2002	3,620,576	32,520	3,712
2003	3,919,224	39,695	3,694
2004	3,917,109	39,865	3,639
2005	4,071,875	40,415	3,178
2006	4,458,711	44,044	3,196
2007	4,629,877	44,870	3,127
2008	4,492,003	44,552	2,722
2009	3,738,492	36,429	1,913
2010	4,173,686	39,437	1,710
2011	4,948,018	44,551	1,557
2012	4,399,023	37,772	1,214
2013	4,259,341	35,498	1,022
2014	4,764,632	40,066	978
Source: Aena Statistics

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