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Airport Tenerife (Spain) - Reina-Sofia

Tenerife-South Airport
Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur
Tenerife Sur/Reina Sofía Airport
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
Coordinates 28°0240N 016°3421W / 28.04444°N 16.5725°W / 28.04444; -16.5725
Map
TFS
Location in the Canary Islands
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
08/26 3,200 10,498 Asphalt
Statistics (2011 - provisional)
Passengers 8,656,480
Passenger change 10-11 17.6%
Aircraft Movements 58,093
Movements change 10-11 0.08%
Sources: Passenger Traffic, AENA[1]
Spanish AIP, AENA[2]

Tenerife South Airport (IATA: TFSICAO: 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.[citation needed] The airport is the busier 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 8.6 million passengers in 2011. Combined with Tenerife North Airport, the island gathers the highest passenger movement in the Canary Islands with 12,751,583 passengers.[1]

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History

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]

Airlines and destinations

Destinations by airline served from Tenerife South Airport:[4]

Airlines Destinations
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 Seasonal charter: Riga
AlbaStar Milan-Malpensa, Verona
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
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

Statistics

Tenerife South Airport Passenger Totals 2000-2011 (millions)
Updated: 26 January 2012.[1] 2011 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 (provisional) 8,656,480 58,093 4,878
Source: Aena Statistics[1]

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