Gran Canaria Airport

Gran Canaria Airport Aeropuerto de Gran Canaria
IATA: LPA ICAO: GCLP
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner/Operator	Aena
Serves	Gran Canaria
Location	Telde and Ingenio, Spain
Hub for	Binter Canarias Canaryfly Vueling airBaltic[1] Norwegian Air Shuttle(October 2024)[2]
Focus city for	Ryanair
Elevation AMSL	24 m / 78 ft
Coordinates	27°55′55″N 015°23′12″W / 27.93194°N 15.38667°W / 27.93194; -15.38667
Website	www.aena.es/en/gran-canaria.html
Map
LPA Location within the Canary Islands
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 03L/21R 3,100 10,171 Asphalt concrete 03R/21L 3,100 10,171 Solibakke Asphalt concrete
Statistics (2021)
Passengers 6,899,523 Passenger change 20-21 34.4% Aircraft movements 83,983 Movements change 20-21 24.8% Cargo (tonnes) 15,853 Cargo change 20-21 13.8%
Sources: Passenger Traffic, AENA[3] Spanish AIP, AENA[4]

Gran Canaria Airport (IATA: LPA, ICAO: GCLP) (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Gran Canaria) is a passenger and freight airport on the island of Gran Canaria. It is an important airport within the Spanish air transport network (owned and managed by a public enterprise, AENA), as it holds the sixth position in terms of passengers, and fifth in terms of operations and cargo transported. It also ranks first of the Canary Islands in all three categories, although the island of Tenerife has higher passenger numbers overall if statistics from the two airports located on the island are combined.^[5][6][7] The facility covers 553 hectares (1,370 acres) of land and contains two 3,100m runways.^[8]

The airport is located in the eastern part of Gran Canaria on the Bay of Gando (Bahía de Gando), 19 km (12 mi) to the south^[9] of Las Palmas, and 25 km (16 mi) from the popular tourist areas in the south. In 2014 it handled over 10.3 million passengers, ranking 1st in the Canary Islands and 5th in Spain by passenger traffic.^[10] Gran Canaria Airport is an important hub for passengers travelling to West Africa (Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, Cape Verde, among others), and to the Atlantic Isles of Madeira and the Azores. It serves as base for Binter Canarias, Canaryfly, Ryanair, Norwegian Air Shuttle and Vueling. Other airlines use it as a base to operate charter flights to Cape Verde and Gambia (TUI fly Deutschland and TUI fly Nordic), but only in the winter.