Tenerife South Airport

Tenerife South Airport

Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur

Tenerife Sur Airport - GCTS
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorAena
ServesTenerife
LocationGranadilla de Abona
Elevation AMSL64 m / 209 ft
Coordinates28°02′40″N 016°34′21″W / 28.04444°N 16.57250°W / 28.04444; -16.57250
Websitehttps://www.aena.es/en/tenerife-sur.html
Map
TFS is located in Canary Islands
TFS
TFS
Location in the Canary Islands
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
07/25 3,200 10,498 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers11,168,506
Passenger change 18-19Increase 1.1%
Movements70,277
Movements change 18-19Increase 0.5%
Cargo (t)2,188
Sources: Passenger Traffic, AENA [1][1]
Spanish AIP, AENA[2]

Tenerife South Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur) (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).

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.

  1. ^ "Estadísticas – Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea – aena-aeropuertos.es". Aena.es. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  2. ^ "Spanish AIP (AENA)". Archived from the original on March 7, 2012.
  3. ^ "La fiebre por cambiar los nombres de los aeropuertos en España". Tourinews. 16 March 2019.
  4. ^ "AENA statistics for 2012" (PDF). Retrieved 16 February 2019.