| Tenerife-South Airport Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur Tenerife Sur/Reina Sofía Airport |
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| IATA: TFS – ICAO: GCTS | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Aena | ||
| Location | Tenerife, Spain | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 64 m / 209 ft | ||
| Coordinates | 28°02′40″N 016°34′21″W / 28.04444°N 16.5725°WCoordinates: 28°02′40″N 016°34′21″W / 28.04444°N 16.5725°W | ||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 08/26 | 3,200 | 10,498 | Asphalt |
| Statistics (2008) | |||
| Passengers | 8,252,017 | ||
| Aircraft movements | 60,779 | ||
| Source: AENA[1] | |||
Tenerife South Airport (IATA: TFS, ICAO: 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). In late 2006 and since its opening, its facilities had been through a total of 173,912,207 passengers. In 2007, 8,639,341 people used it. Combined with the Tenerife North Airport, the largest flock of passenger movement Canary Islands 12,764,375 passengers (report AENA) and low-cost airlines, with a total of 20.
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 and line 340 connects to the other airport Tenerife North Airport which is 71 km (44 mi) by road.
In 2008, the airport handled 8,252,017 passengers and 60,779 aircraft movements.[1]
Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Aer Lingus | Belfast-International, Cork, Dublin, London-Gatwick [seasonal] |
| Aerosvit Airlines | Kiev-Borispol |
| Air Berlin | Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin-Tegel, Bremen [seasonal], Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund [ends 24 April], Dresden, Düsseldorf, Erfurt, Frankfurt [ends 10 April], Hamburg, Leipzig/Halle, Münster/Osnabrück, Munich, Nuremberg, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Zürich |
| Air Europa | Alicante, Asturias, Barcelona, Bilbao, Lanzarote, Madrid, Miami, Santiago de Compostela, Valencia, Vigo, Zaragoza |
| Air Italy | Milan-Malpensa |
| Air One | Rome-Fiumicino |
| Arkefly | Amsterdam |
| Austrian Airlines operated by Lauda Air [2] | Linz, Vienna |
| Binter Canarias | Las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
| Blue Panorama Airlines | Milan-Malpensa |
| BMI [3] | Glasgow, London-Gatwick, Manchester [all seasonal scheduled charter flights] |
| Cimber Air | Copenhagen |
| Condor | Berlin-Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover [ends 30 October], Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Stuttgart |
| EasyJet | Bristol, London-Gatwick, Manchester |
| Edelweiss Air | Geneva, Zurich |
| Europe Airpost | Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
| Germanwings | Cologne/Bonn |
| Finnair | Helsinki |
| Hamburg International | Berlin-Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Friedrichshafen, Karlsruhe/Baden Baden, Saarbrücken, Weeze |
| Iberia | Madrid |
| Iberworld | Alicante, Bilbao, Edinburgh, Granada, London-Stansted [seasonal], Madrid, Seville, Valencia, Zaragoza |
| Icelandair | Reykjavik-Keflavik |
| Jet2.com | Belfast-International, Blackpool, East Midlands [begins 21 May], Leeds/Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Jetairfly | Brussels South-Charleroi, Liege, Ostend |
| Jettime | Billund, Copenhagen |
| JetX | Stockholm-Arlanda, Reykjavik-Keflavik |
| KMV Avia | Moscow-Vnukovo [seasonal] |
| Livingston | Milan-Malpensa |
| Luxair | Luxembourg |
| Meridiana operated by Eurofly | Milan-Malpensa |
| Mistral Air | Milan-Malpensa |
| Monarch Airlines | Birmingham, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester |
| Neos | Milan-Malpensa |
| Niki | Graz [ends 24 April], Salzburg, Vienna |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle | Oslo-Gardemoen, Stockholm-Arlanda |
| Novair | Stockholm-Arlanda, Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardemoen |
| Palmair | Bournemouth |
| Rossiya | St Petersburg |
| Ryanair | Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Brussels South-Charleroi, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Girona, Glasgow-Prestwick, Hahn, Liverpool, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Madrid, Porto, Shannon, Weeze |
| Scandinavian Airlines System | Billund, Bergen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Copenhagen, Stavanger, Stockholm-Arlanda |
| S7 Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo |
| SmartLynx Airlines | Riga [seasonal] |
| Spanair | Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid, Malaga, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Valencia, Vigo |
| Swiftair | Valladolid |
| Swiss International Airlines | Zurich |
| TAROM | Bucharest-Otopeni [seasonal] |
| Thomas Cook Airlines | 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 | Bergen, Billund, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Oslo-Gardermoen, Malmö, Stockholm-Arlanda |
| Thomson Airways | Belfast, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, East Midlands, Exeter, Glasgow-International, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Top Fly | Layoune |
| TUIfly | Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin-Tegel [seasonal], Cologne/Bonn [ends 24 April], Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg [ends 29 April], Hanover, Munich, Nuremberg [seasonal], Stuttgart |
| TUIfly Nordic | Gothenburg, Helsinki, Malmo, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda |
| Transaero | Moscow-Domodedovo |
| Transavia.com | Amsterdam, Rotterdam |
| Transavia.com Denmark | Copenhagen |
| Transavia.com France | Paris-Orly |
| Trawel Fly | Milan-Orio al Serio |
| Travel Service | Prague |
| Travel Service Hungary | Budapest |
| VIM Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo |
| Viking Airlines | London-gatwick, Manchester, Bristol |
References
- ^ a b AENA statistics for 2008
- ^ https://www.laudaair.com/book/StartHtml.aspx?a=3&fplan=y&L=0&lang=DE Lauda Air timetable (retrieved 2009-08-31)
- ^ http://www.charterflights.co.uk/airline/british_midland/bd bmi charter flights (retrieved 2009-08-30)
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