Tenerife–South Airport

Tenerife–Sur Airport Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur Tenerife Sur/Reina Sofía Airport - GCTS
IATA: TFS – ICAO: GCTS
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Aena
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°WCoordinates: 28°02′40″N 016°34′21″W / 28.04444°N 16.57250°W
Map
TFS Location in the Canary Islands
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 08/26 3,200 10,498 Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Passengers 2015 9,117,637 Passenger change 14–15 0.6% Aircraft movements 58,461 Movements change 14–15 3.0%
Sources: Passenger Traffic, AENA[1] Spanish AIP, AENA[2]

Tenerife Sur 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 Identified the need for 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 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.

The airport was under construction when the Tenerife airport disaster occurred at Tenerife North Airport on 27 March 1977.

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

View of the platform.

Apron view

Exterior of airport

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

Airlines	Destinations
Aeroflot	Moscow–Sheremetyevo[6]
Aeroflot operated by Rossiya	Seasonal: Saint Petersburg
Aer Lingus	Dublin Seasonal: Cork
Air Berlin	Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin–Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig/Halle, Nuremberg, Zürich Seasonal: Munich, Stuttgart
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
Belavia	Seasonal charter: Minsk–National[8]
Binter Canarias operated by NAYSA	Gran Canaria
British Airways	London–Gatwick
Brussels Airlines	Brussels[9]
Condor	Berlin–Schönefeld, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, Manchester, Munich, Stuttgart
easyJet	Amsterdam, Berlin–Schönefeld, Bristol, Edinburgh, London–Gatwick, London–Luton,[10] Manchester, Milan–Malpensa, Paris–Charles de Gaulle[11] Seasonal: London–Southend, Newcastle upon Tyne
easyJet Switzerland	Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva[12]
Edelweiss Air	Zürich
Enter Air	Katowice, Poznań, Warsaw–Chopin
Eurowings	Düsseldorf,[13] Hamburg[13]
Finnair	Seasonal:Helsinki
Germania	Bremen, Dresden, 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 Seasonal: Lyon
Icelandair	Seasonal charter: Reykjavík–Keflavík
Jet2.com	Belfast–International, Birmingham (begins 31 March 2017),[14] East Midlands, Edinburgh,[15] Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, London-Stansted (begins 31 March 2017),[16] 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	Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Salzburg, Vienna Seasonal: Graz, Linz
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Birmingham,[17] Edinburgh,[17] London–Gatwick, Málaga,[18] Manchester, Rome–Fiumicino Seasonal: Berlin–Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Oslo–Gardermoen, Oulu, Stockholm–Arlanda
Privilege Style operated by Swiftair	Charter: Lisbon, Porto
Ryanair	Barcelona, Beauvais, Belfast-International,[19] Bergamo, Billund, Birmingham, Bologna, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Cork, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Hahn, Kraków, Leeds/Bradford, Linz, Liverpool, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Madrid, Manchester, Memmingen, Pisa, Prestwick, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Sandefjord, Shannon, Valencia, Warsaw–Modlin, Weeze, Wrocław, Treviso Seasonal: Knock, Stockholm–Skavsta, Porto, Newcastle
Small Planet Airlines	Glasgow Seasonal charter: Vilnius
SmartWings operated by Travel Service Airlines[20]	Prague Seasonal: Brno
SmartWings operated by Travel Service Polska[20]	Seasonal: Warsaw–Chopin[21]
TAROM	Seasonal: Bucharest
Thomas Cook Airlines[22]	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
Thomson Airways[23]	Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Exeter, Humberside,[24] Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne Seasonal: Belfast–International, Dublin, Humberside,[25] Norwich, Liverpool (begins 5 May 2017)
Transavia	Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Munich,[26] Rotterdam Seasonal: Groningen
Transavia France	Paris–Orly
TUI Airlines Netherlands	Amsterdam
TUIfly	Basel/Mulhouse, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Nuremberg, Stuttgart Seasonal: Helsinki, Karlsruhe/Baden–Baden
TUIfly Belgium	Brussels, Charleroi, Liège, Ostend/Bruges
VIM Airlines	Moscow–Domodedovo
Volotea	Bordeaux, Nantes, Toulouse Seasonal charter: Jersey
Vueling	Alicante, Barcelona, Birmingham, Manchester, Paris–Orly, Zürich Seasonal: Málaga, Nantes (begins 17 December 2016),[27] Rome–Fiumicino,[28] Santander, Seville, Valencia, Zaragoza
Wizz Air	Bucharest,[29] Budapest, Katowice[30]
WOW air	Seasonal: Reykjavík–Keflavík[31]

Statistics

Passengers

Tenerife South Airport Passenger Totals 2000-2013 (millions)

Updated: 16 January 2015. 2014 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 (2014)^[32]

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 services to all parts of the island, Line 343 connects the South Airport (TFS) with Tenerife North Airport (TFN).

Climate

The Spanish weather service operates a station at Tenerife South Airport. It has a maritime hot desert climate with hot summers and very mild winters that falls inside the tropics.

Climate data for Tenerife South Airport (1981–2010)
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Record high °C (°F)	29.3 (84.7)	30.0 (86)	34.0 (93.2)	35.6 (96.1)	37.7 (99.9)	36.2 (97.2)	42.9 (109.2)	44.3 (111.7)	41.8 (107.2)	37.0 (98.6)	35.2 (95.4)	30.0 (86)	44.3 (111.7)
Average high °C (°F)	21.7 (71.1)	22.0 (71.6)	23.1 (73.6)	23.1 (73.6)	23.9 (75)	25.4 (77.7)	27.7 (81.9)	28.4 (83.1)	27.9 (82.2)	26.8 (80.2)	24.8 (76.6)	22.8 (73)	24.8 (76.6)
Daily mean °C (°F)	18.4 (65.1)	18.5 (65.3)	19.3 (66.7)	19.5 (67.1)	20.4 (68.7)	22.1 (71.8)	24.0 (75.2)	24.7 (76.5)	24.5 (76.1)	23.4 (74.1)	21.5 (70.7)	19.7 (67.5)	21.4 (70.5)
Average low °C (°F)	15.2 (59.4)	15.0 (59)	15.6 (60.1)	16.0 (60.8)	17.0 (62.6)	18.8 (65.8)	20.2 (68.4)	21.1 (70)	21.1 (70)	20.0 (68)	18.2 (64.8)	16.5 (61.7)	17.9 (64.2)
Record low °C (°F)	9.0 (48.2)	9.8 (49.6)	9.6 (49.3)	12.2 (54)	13.0 (55.4)	14.6 (58.3)	16.8 (62.2)	17.1 (62.8)	16.6 (61.9)	14.8 (58.6)	12.0 (53.6)	10.4 (50.7)	9.0 (48.2)
Average rainfall mm (inches)	16.6 (0.654)	19.9 (0.783)	14.7 (0.579)	7.4 (0.291)	1.1 (0.043)	0.1 (0.004)	0.1 (0.004)	1.3 (0.051)	3.6 (0.142)	11.9 (0.469)	26.3 (1.035)	30.3 (1.193)	133.3 (5.248)
Average rainy days (≥ 1.0 mm)	1.8	2.2	1.9	1.1	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.6	1.6	1.9	3.5	15.1
Mean monthly sunshine hours	193	195	226	219	246	259	295	277	213	214	193	195	2,725
Source #1: Agencia Estatal de Meteorología[33]
Source #2: Agencia Estatal de Meteorología[34]

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34. "Valores Climatológicos Extremos. Tenerife Sur Aeropuerto".

External links

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