Tenerife South Airport

International airport serving Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tenerife South Airport (IATA: TFS, ICAO: GCTS), also known as Tenerife South–Reina Sofía Airport,[3] 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).

Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorAENA
ServesTenerife South
LocationGranadilla de Abona
Quick facts Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur, Summary ...
Tenerife South Airport
Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorAENA
ServesTenerife South
LocationGranadilla de Abona
Opened1978
Operating base forRyanair
Built1973
Elevation AMSL64 m / 209 ft
Coordinates28°02′40″N 016°34′21″W
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata
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TFS/GCTS is located in Spain, Canary Islands
TFS/GCTS
TFS/GCTS
Location within Spain
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
07/25 3,200 10,498 Asphalt
Statistics (2025)
Passengers13,969,678
Passenger change 24-25Increase 1.7%
Movements70,277
Movements change 18-19Increase 0.5%
Cargo (t)2,188
Sources: Passenger Traffic, AENA [1]
Spanish AIP, AENA[2]
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It is located in the municipality of Granadilla de Abona and handled over 11 million passengers in 2018. Combined with Tenerife North Airport, the island gathers the highest passenger movement of all the Canary Islands, with 12,248,673 passengers,[4] surpassing Gran Canaria Airport.

History

In the late 1960s, the island authorities of Tenerife found the need for a second airport at a new location, because the existing airport (then called "Los Rodeos Airport"), now known as Tenerife North–Ciudad de La Laguna Airport, did not meet technical requirements due to adverse weather conditions, especially low visibility in foggy conditions; this was exemplified by the events of what became the deadliest aviation accident in history, when in 1977, two Boeing 747s collided on the runway at Los Rodeos, killing 583 people, in part, due to very low visibility.[citation needed]

Only 20 months later, with the disaster still fresh in people's minds, 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.[5] The airport was constructed close to the Tomás Zerolo airfield, which closed when TFS opened.[6]

In June 1980, Viasa inaugurated flights to Caracas. The link served the large proportion of the Canarian diaspora that resided in Venezuela.[7] The airline ceased operations in 1997, after which Avensa started plying the route.[8][9] Due to financial problems, Avensa later let Santa Bárbara Airlines take over its flights to Spain and then began code-sharing on them.[8][10] In October 2002, Santa Bárbara commenced service to Reina Sofía Airport using a McDonnell Douglas DC-10. It switched to Tenerife North Airport four months later.[11]

With the launch of service in late 2026, Air Canada will offer the only service to North America [12]. United Airlines provided thrice weekly-service to Tenerife from Newark between June 2022 and May 2025. [13]

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 40 boarding gates of which ten are equipped with jetbridges. While the upper floor 1 contains office space and transit corridors, the basement level -1 features additional luggage belts.[14]

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Tenerife South Airport:[15]

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AirlinesDestinations
Aer Lingus Dublin[citation needed]
Air Canada Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau (begins October 31, 2026)[16], Toronto–Pearson (begins 1 November 2026)[16]
Air Serbia Belgrade (begins 15 September 2026)[17]
airBaltic Seasonal: Groningen (begins 29 October 2026),[18] Riga[citation needed] Tallinn,[citation needed] Vilnius[citation needed]
Animawings Seasonal: Timișoara[19]
Austrian Airlines Vienna[citation needed]
Binter Canarias Gran Canaria[20]
Seasonal: Funchal[citation needed]
British Airways London–Gatwick,[citation needed] London–Heathrow[citation needed]
Brussels Airlines Brussels[citation needed]
Condor Düsseldorf,[citation needed] Frankfurt,[citation needed] Hamburg,[citation needed] Munich[21]
Seasonal: Stuttgart[citation needed]
Corendon Airlines Europe Cologne/Bonn,[citation needed] Düsseldorf,[citation needed] Hannover[citation needed]
Discover Airlines Frankfurt,[citation needed] Munich[citation needed]
easyJet Basel/Mulhouse,[22] Belfast–International,[22] Berlin,[22] Birmingham,[citation needed] Bordeaux,[22] Bristol,[22] Edinburgh,[22] Geneva,[22] Liverpool,[22] London–Gatwick,[citation needed] London–Luton,[citation needed] London–Southend,[23] Lyon,[22] Manchester,[citation needed] Milan–Malpensa,[22] Nantes,[22] Paris–Charles de Gaulle,[22] Newcastle upon Tyne (resumes 1 August 2026)[24]
Seasonal: Amsterdam,[citation needed] Glasgow,[25] Milan–Linate,[26] Nice[27]
Edelweiss Air Zurich[citation needed]
Eurowings Cologne/Bonn,[citation needed] Düsseldorf[citation needed]
Seasonal: Berlin,[citation needed] Graz,[citation needed] Hamburg,[citation needed] Hannover,[citation needed] Prague,[28] Salzburg,[citation needed] Stuttgart[citation needed]
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki[citation needed]
Icelandair Reykjavík–Keflavík[citation needed]
Jet2.com Belfast–International,[citation needed] Birmingham,[citation needed] Bournemouth,[29] Bristol,[30] East Midlands,[31] Edinburgh,[32] Glasgow,[citation needed] Leeds/Bradford,[citation needed] Liverpool,[33] London–Gatwick,[34] London–Luton,[35] London–Stansted,[citation needed] Manchester,[citation needed] Newcastle upon Tyne[36]
LOT Polish Airlines Seasonal: Warsaw–Chopin[37]
Luxair Luxembourg[citation needed]
Marabu Cologne/Bonn,[citation needed] Hamburg[38]
Neos Bologna[39]
Seasonal: Milan–Malpensa,[40] Verona[41]
Norwegian Air Shuttle Copenhagen,[42] Oslo[43]
Seasonal: Aalborg,[44] Bergen,[45] Helsinki,[46] Stavanger,[citation needed] Stockholm–Arlanda[27]
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca[47]
Ryanair Agadir,[22] Bergamo,[citation needed] Berlin,[22] Birmingham,[22] Bologna,[22] Bournemouth,[22] Bristol,[22] Budapest,[citation needed] Charleroi,[22] Cardiff,[48] Cologne/Bonn,[22] Dublin,[22] East Midlands,[22] Edinburgh,[22] Eindhoven,[citation needed] Glasgow–Prestwick,[22] Knock,[citation needed] Kraków,[22] Leeds/Bradford,[22] Liverpool,[22] London–Luton,[22] London–Stansted,[22] Madrid,[22] Málaga,[22] Manchester,[22] Marseille,[22] Milan–Malpensa,[22] Naples,[22] Newcastle upon Tyne,[22] Rome–Fiumicino,[22] Santiago de Compostela,[22] Seville,[22] Shannon,[22] Treviso,[22] Valencia,[22] Vienna,[22] Warsaw–Modlin[22]
Seasonal: Beauvais,[27] Hahn,[27] Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden,[27] Marrakesh,[citation needed] Memmingen,[27] Porto,[citation needed] Toulouse,[citation needed] Weeze[27]
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Copenhagen,[citation needed] Oslo,[citation needed] Stockholm–Arlanda[citation needed]
Smartwings Prague[citation needed]
Seasonal charter: Isle of Man,[49] Jersey,[citation needed] Warsaw-Chopin[citation needed]
Sunclass Airlines Seasonal charter: Copenhagen,[citation needed] Oslo[citation needed]
Sundair Seasonal: Münster/Osnabrück[citation needed]
TAP Air Portugal Lisbon[citation needed]
Transavia Amsterdam,[citation needed] Brussels,[50] Eindhoven,[51] Rotterdam/The Hague[52]
TUI Airways Birmingham,[citation needed] Bournemouth,[53] Bristol,[54] Cardiff,[55] Dublin,[citation needed] East Midlands,[56] Exeter,[57] Glasgow,[58] London–Gatwick,[citation needed] Manchester,[citation needed] Newcastle upon Tyne,[59] Norwich[60]
Seasonal: Aberdeen,[61] Belfast–International,[62] London–Stansted[citation needed]
TUI fly Belgium Antwerp,[citation needed] Ostend/Bruges[63]
TUI fly Deutschland Düsseldorf,[64] Frankfurt,[65] Hannover,[66] Munich,[67] Stuttgart[68]
TUI fly Netherlands Amsterdam,[citation needed] Eindhoven,[69] Rotterdam/The Hague[70]
Volotea Asturias,[71] Bilbao,[citation needed] Nantes[72]
Seasonal: Brest,[citation needed] Lille,[73] Montpellier (begins 8 November 2026)[74]
Vueling Paris–Orly[citation needed]
Wizz Air Bucharest–Otopeni,[75] Budapest,[76] Gdańsk,[77][78] Katowice,[citation needed] Milan–Malpensa,[79] Rome–Fiumicino,[80] Venice,[81] Warsaw–Chopin[82][83]
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Statistics

Terminal exterior
Control tower
Apron view

Passengers

More information Passengers, Aircraft movements ...
PassengersAircraft movementsCargo (tonnes)
2000 9,111,06562,09612,019
2001 9,111,06561,05511,469
2002 8,980,46563,52710,769
2003 8,852,87862,5068,775
2004 8,632,17862,8249,218
2005 8,631,92363,6499,770
2006 8,845,66865,7749,414
2007 8,639,34165,0369,168
2008 8,251,98960,7798,567
2009 7,108,07349,7795,371
2010 7,359,15051,8584,293
2011 8,656,48758,0934,480
2012 8,530,72956,2103,906
2013 8,701,98355,9873,395
2014 9,176,27460,2903,376
2015 9,117,51458,4622,844
2016 10,472,71365,8822,809
2017 11,248,88269,8462,797
2018 11,042,48169,9102,483
2019 11,168,50670,2772,188
Source: Aena Statistics[1]
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Busiest routes

More information Rank, Destination ...
Busiest European routes from TFS (2023)
Rank Destination Passengers Change 2021 / 22
1 Manchester 963,741 Increase 16%
2 London-Gatwick 712,288 Increase 24%
3 London-Stansted 519,686 Increase 15%
4 Birmingham 393,055 Increase 11%
5 Bristol 369,394 Increase 26%
6 East Midlands 321,549 Increase 16%
7 Edinburgh 320,816 Increase 12%
8 Brussels 311,785 Increase 14%
9 Dublin 285,481 Increase 20%
10 Düsseldorf 284,990 Increase 16%
11 Newcastle 270,219 Increase 12%
12 Frankfurt 268,081 Increase 8%
13 Amsterdam 261,813 Decrease 2%
14 Glasgow 244,089 Increase 11%
15 Leeds/Bradford 232,589 Increase 20%
16 Milan-Malpensa 199,739 Decrease 8%
17 London-Luton 173,764 Decrease 19%
18 Vienna 169,753 Increase 29%
19 Berlin 165,466 Increase 5%
20 Munich 162,859 Increase 12%
Source: Estadísticas de tráfico aereo[84]
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More information Rank, Destination ...
Busiest domestic routes from TFS (2023)
Rank Destination Passengers Change 2021 / 22
1 Madrid 417,917 Increase 10%
2 Gran Canaria 204,484 Increase 15%
3 Santiago de Compostela 140,903 Increase 16%
4 Barcelona 74,668 Increase 15%
5 Seville 63,714 Increase 20%
6 Lanzarote 59,698 Increase 57%
7 La Palma 55,257 Increase 99%
8 Valencia 41,304 Increase 17%
9 Málaga 37,369 Decrease 1%
10 Asturias 16,429 Decrease 21%
Source: Estadísticas de tráfico aereo[84]
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Ground transport

Car rental

Several car rental companies authorized by AENA operate at Tenerife South Airport. These companies are located in the arrivals halls for both domestic and international flights. There are other car rental companies operating outside the airport, but they are not authorized by AENA.[85]

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