Tenerife North–Ciudad de La Laguna Airport

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Tenerife North–Ciudad de La Laguna Airport (Template:Comma separated entries), formerly Los Rodeos Airport, is the smaller of the two international airports on the island of Tenerife, Spain. It is located in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Script error: No such module "convert". by road from Santa Cruz and at an elevation of Script error: No such module "convert".. It handled 6,120,550 passengers in 2023. Combined with Tenerife South Airport, the island gathers the highest passenger movement of all the Canary Islands, with 18,457,794 passengers,[1] surpassing Gran Canaria Airport. Today TFN is an inter-island hub connecting all seven of the main Canary Islands with connections to the Iberian Peninsula and Europe.

In 1977, the airport was the infamous site of the deadliest accident in aviation history, when two Boeing 747s collided on the runway in heavy fog conditions, causing the deaths of 583 passengers and crew.

History

Early years

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In May 1930, the Compañía de Líneas Aéreas Subvencionadas S.A. (C.L.A.S.S.A.) established the first air link between the Spanish mainland and the Canary Islands using a Ford 4-AT Trimotor (M-CKKA), which took off from Getafe, Madrid to the Los Rodeos field via Casablanca, Cape Juby and Gando in Gran Canaria.

After the final location of the airport had been decided, funds were gathered between 1935 and 1939 to build a small hangar and begin expanding the airstrip which would become Los Rodeos.

Operations into Los Rodeos recommenced on 23 January 1941 with a De Havilland DH89A Dragon Rapide operating an Iberia flight from Gando in Gran Canaria. By 1946, more hangars, a passenger terminal and an Script error: No such module "convert". paved runway had been built, and the airport was officially opened to all national and international traffic. The runway was stretched at various times during the 1940s and 1950s, reaching a length of Script error: No such module "convert". in 1953, by which time the airport was also equipped with runway edge lighting and an air-ground radio, enabling night operations.

Development since the 1960s

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On December 3, 1972, Spantax Flight 275 crashed during take-off, killing everyone on board.

A new airport, Tenerife South Airport, was inaugurated on 6 November 1978. It was built because Tenerife North is very often covered with thick fog, and this was impacting safety, as shown by the Tenerife airport disaster, in which visibility was a contributing factor.[2]

On 25 April 1980, Dan-Air Flight 1008 Boeing 727 crashed near the airport, killing all 146 on board, in a controlled flight into terrain accident.

A new terminal was opened at Tenerife North Airport in 2002, comprising car park, motorway access ramps, and four-story terminal building, with 12 gates, reopening the airport to international traffic. Until this point, the airport had been closed to international flights ever since Tenerife South had opened in 1978.[2] In February 2003, Santa Bárbara Airlines transferred its Caracas service from Reina Sofía Airport to Tenerife North.[3] An inter-island domestic area was opened in 2005.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

In June 2009, Air Europa introduced a route to Miami using Airbus A330s.[4] The service was supposed to end in October 2009, but high demand convinced the airline to shift the end date to January 2010. Air Europa then decided to continue flying to Miami on a seasonal basis. The flight resumed in June 2010; however, the carrier discontinued it four months later.[5][6] Amid economic problems in Venezuela, SBA Airlines, formerly known as Santa Bárbara Airlines, terminated its flights to Caracas in February 2014.[3] In June 2018, Plus Ultra Líneas Aéreas began flying the same route with Airbus A340s.[7]

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Tenerife North:[8]

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Statistics

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View of the airport (2010)
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Check-in hall (2003)
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Apron view (2003)
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Inside the terminal (2022)
Traffic by calendar year
Passengers Aircraft movements Cargo (tonnes)
2000 2,411,100 48,902 22,462
2001 2,511,277 49,132 21,060
2002 2,486,227 48,785 21,148
2003 2,919,087 53,718 23,842
2004 3,368,988 56,592 23,647
2005 3,754,513 60,235 22,163
2006 4,025,601 65,297 23,193
2007 4,125,131 65,843 25,169
2008 4,236,615 67,800 20,781
2009 4,054,147 62,776 18,304
2010 4,051,155 61,607 15,918
2011 4,095,103 62,590 15,745
2012 3,717,944 55,789 14,778
2013 3,524,470 49,289 13,493
2014 3,633,030 52,694 13,991
2015 3,815,315 53,259 12,819
2016 4,219,633 55,669 12,426
2017 4,704,863 61,098 13,044
2018 5,492,324 73,236 12,689
2019 5,840,483 75,385 12,596
2020 2,795,952 46,100 9,643
2021 3,840,160 54,581 11,884
2022 5,566,245 68,988 13,165
2023 6,120,550 75,194 11,561
Source: AENA[9]

Busiest routes

Busiest international routes from TFN (2023)
Rank Destination Passengers Change 2022 / 23
1 Template:Flagdeco Lisbon 22,893 Increase 25%
2 Template:Flagdeco Caracas 18,315 Increase 1382%
3 Template:Flagdeco Funchal 12,940 Increase 10%
4 Template:Flagdeco Sofia 1,871 Steady New Route
5 Template:Flagdeco Marrakech 1,250 Increase 23%
Source: Estadísticas de tráfico aereo[10]
Busiest domestic routes from TFN (2023)
Rank Destination Passengers Change 2022 / 23
1 Template:Flagdeco Madrid 1,413,257 Increase 10%
2 Template:Flagdeco Gran Canaria 901,145 Increase 14%
3 Template:Flagdeco La Palma 689,808 Increase 9%
4 Template:Flagdeco Barcelona 628,727 Increase 9%
5 Template:Flagdeco Lanzarote 405,579 Increase 5%
6 Template:Flagdeco Fuerteventura 323,699 Increase 7%
7 Template:Flagdeco Seville 312,848 Increase 14%
8 Template:Flagdeco El Hierro 235,804 Increase 9%
9 Template:Flagdeco Málaga 210,362 Increase 18%
10 Template:Flagdeco Bilbao 190,789 Increase 6%
11 Template:Flagdeco Valencia 157,147 Increase 24%
12 Template:Flagdeco Santiago de Compostela 119,225 Increase 23%
13 Template:Flagdeco Alicante 103,390 Increase 1%
14 Template:Flagdeco Asturias 89,509 Increase 13%
15 Template:Flagdeco La Gomera 58,194 Decrease 4%
16 Template:Flagdeco Zaragoza 51,940 Increase 4%
17 Template:Flagdeco Palma de Mallorca 46,973 Decrease 18%
18 Template:Flagdeco Vigo 39,739 Increase 9%
19 Template:Flagdeco Granada 34,844 Increase 11%
20 Template:Flagdeco Jerez de la Frontera 20,499 Steady 0%
Source: Estadísticas de tráfico aereo[10]

Accidents and incidents

Tenerife airport disaster

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Other incidents

Date Airline Aircraft type Registration Flight number People on board Fatalities
1956-09-29 Aviaco SNCASE Languedoc EC-AKV 38 1 on ground
1964-07-03 Ejército del Aire Douglas DC-3 21 4
1965-05-05 Iberia Lockheed L-1049G EC-AIN 401 49 30
1965-12-07 Spantax Douglas DC-3 EC-ARZ[16] 32 32
1966-09-16 Iberia Douglas DC-3 EC-ACX 261 27 1
1970-01-05 Iberia Fokker F-27 Friendship 600 EC-BOD 49 0
1972-12-03 Spantax Convair CV-990 EC-BZR 275 155 155
1978-02-15 Sabena Boeing 707-329 OO-SJE 196 0
1980-04-25 Dan-Air Boeing 727-46 G-BDAN 1008 146 146

Ground transport

Bus routes 20, 30, 103 and 343 serve the airport.[17]

References

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