Tenerife South Airport
Encyclopedia
Tenerife South Airport , 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. The airport is the busiest 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 7.3 million passengers in 2010. Combined with Tenerife North Airport, the island gathers the highest passenger movement in the Canary Islands with 11,410,305 passengers.
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.
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! style="width:75px"| !! style="width:100px"| Passengers !! style="width:100px"| Aircraft Movements !! style="width:100px"| Cargo (tonnes)
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!2000
|9,111,065 || 62,096 || 12,019
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!2001
|9,111,065 || 61,055 || 11,469
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!2002
|8,980,465 || 63,527 || 10,769
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!2003
|8,852,878 || 62,506 || 8,775
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!2004
|8,632,178 || 62,824 || 9,218
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!2005
|8,631,923 || 63,649 || 9,770
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!2006
|8,845,668 || 65,774 || 9,414
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!2007
|8,639,341 || 65,036 || 9,168
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!2008
|8,251,989 || 60,779 || 8,567
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!2009
|7,108,073 || 49,779 || 5,371
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!2010
|7,359,150 || 51,858 || 4,293
|-
| colspan=4 align="right"| Source: Aena Statistics
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Tenerife
Tenerife is the largest and most populous island of the seven Canary Islands, it is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of 2,034.38 km² and 906,854 inhabitants, 43% of the total population of the Canary Islands. About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, the...
, the largest of the Canary Islands
Canary Islands
The Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...
(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. The airport is the busiest 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
TITSA
TITSA is the Transportes interurbanos de Tenerife, S.A. which operates the only public bus service in Tenerife, on the Canary Islands. It carries over 60 million travellers a year, has a fleet of, approx., 600 vehicles, takes children to school, old persons to hospital, and offers the tourist a...
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 7.3 million passengers in 2010. Combined with Tenerife North Airport, the island gathers the highest passenger movement in the Canary Islands with 11,410,305 passengers.
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
Iberia Airlines
Iberia Líneas Aéreas de España, S.A., commonly known as Iberia, is the flag carrier airline of Spain. Based in Madrid, it operates an international network of services from its main bases of Madrid-Barajas Airport and Barcelona El Prat Airport....
running flight IB187 from Lanzarote, which was operated by a McDonnell Douglas DC-9. The flight landed at 10:17.
Airlines and destinations
Destinations by airline served from Tenerife South Airport:Statistics
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! style="width:75px"| !! style="width:100px"| Passengers !! style="width:100px"| Aircraft Movements !! style="width:100px"| 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
|-
| colspan=4 align="right"| Source: Aena Statistics
Aena
Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea , literally "Spanish Airports and Air Navigation", is the Spanish public body that owns and operates the majority of airports in Spain, with the exceptions of the private owned Ciudad Reals and Lleida-Alguaire Airport. Aena is also responsible for Air...
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