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Tenerife North–Ciudad de La Laguna Airport

Coordinates: 28°28′58″N 016°20′30″W / 28.48278°N 16.34167°W / 28.48278; -16.34167
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Tenerife North-Ciudad de La Laguna Airport

Aeropuerto de Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorAena
ServesSanta Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife
LocationSan Cristóbal de La Laguna
Elevation AMSL633 m / 2,077 ft
Coordinates28°28′58″N 016°20′30″W / 28.48278°N 16.34167°W / 28.48278; -16.34167
Websitehttps://www.aena.es/es/tenerife-norte-ciudad-de-la-laguna.html
Map
TFN is located in Canary Islands
TFN
TFN
Location of airport in Canary Islands
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
12/30 3,394 11,135 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers5,840,483
Passenger change 18-19Increase6.3%
Aircraft Movements75,385
Movements change 18-19Increase2.9%
Cargo (t)12,596
Cargo change 18-19Decrease 0.7%
Source: Statistics from AENA [1][1]
Spanish AIP at EUROCONTROL

Tenerife North–Ciudad de La Laguna Airport (IATA: TFN, ICAO: GCXO), 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, 11 km (7 mi) by road from Santa Cruz and at an elevation of 633 metres (2,077 ft). It handled 3,717,944 passengers in 2012. Combined with Tenerife South Airport, the island gathers the highest passenger movement of all the Canary Islands, with 12,248,673 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

Many years before the airport had even been built, the field at Los Rodeos was hastily prepared to accommodate the first (though unofficial) flight into Tenerife operated by an Arado V I (D-1594) aircraft operating from Berlin on behalf of Deutsche Luft Hansa.

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 800 m (2,625 ft) 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 2,400 m (7,874 ft) 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

By 1964, runway 12/30 had been stretched to 3,000 m (9,843 ft) to accommodate the DC-8, new navigation aids were installed, and the apron was expanded to provide more parking spaces for aircraft. In 1971, with the prospect of the Boeing 747 flying into the airport, the runway was reinforced and an ILS (Instrument Landing System) was installed.

A new airport, Tenerife South Airport, was inaugurated on 6 November 1978, in response to the 1977 Tenerife airport disaster which resulted in the highest number of fatalities (excluding ground fatalities) of any single accident in aviation history. The south airport is situated at sea level to avert the occurrence of fog, one of the reasons for the crash.

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.[citation needed] In February 2003, Santa Bárbara Airlines transferred its Caracas service from Reina Sofía Airport to Tenerife North.[2] An inter-island domestic area was opened in 2005.[citation needed]

Using Airbus A330s, Air Europa introduced a direct route to Miami in June 2009.[3] The airline initially intended to end the link in October. Before the maiden flight, however, Air Europa stated the service would run until January due to high demand. In late 2009, the company decided to make the flight permanent.[4] Following a pause for aircraft maintenance, the carrier resumed services to Miami in June 2010.[4][5] The route would operate every summer, and the last flight of the season took place in October.[6] Nevertheless, the carrier then discontinued the link.[4]

Amid economic troubles in Venezuela, SBA Airlines, formerly known as Santa Bárbara Airlines, terminated its flights to Caracas in February 2014.[2] Four years later, Plus Ultra Líneas Aéreas began plying 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]

AirlinesDestinations
Air Europa Bilbao, Madrid, Seville,
Binter Canarias El Hierro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Gran Canaria, Jerez de la Frontera,[9] Lanzarote, La Palma, Palma de Mallorca, Santander,[10] Vigo, Vitoria,[10] Zaragoza[11]
Seasonal: Asturias[12]
CanaryFly El Hierro, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, La Palma
Iberia Express Madrid
Iberia Regional Seasonal: Alicante, Asturias, Santiago de Compostela, Valencia
Plus Ultra Líneas Aéreas Caracas[13]
Ryanair Barcelona, Madrid
Seasonal: Alicante,[14] Palma de Mallorca,[15] Seville,[16] Valencia
Vueling Alicante, Asturias, Barcelona, Bilbao, Copenhagen,[17] Granada, Lisbon, Málaga, Palma de Mallorca,[18] Porto,[19] Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Valencia, Zaragoza

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at TFN airport. See Wikidata query.
View of the Airport
Check-in hall
Apron view
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
Source: AENA[20]

Accidents and incidents

Tenerife airport disaster

Main article: Tenerife airport disaster

On 27 March 1977, Tenerife North Airport (then Tenerife Los Rodeos) was the scene of the deadliest accident in aviation history, which claimed the lives of 583 people. While attempting to take off, KLM Flight 4805, a Boeing 747-206B, collided with Pan Am Flight 1736, a Boeing 747-121, which was taxiing along the runway. All 248 passengers and crew on the KLM flight were killed, along with 335 occupants of the Pan Am flight; however, 61 of the passengers and crew on board the Pan Am survived. Neither of the two airliners was originally scheduled to land on Tenerife, as both flights were bound for Gran Canaria Airport but had been diverted to Los Rodeos as a result of a terrorist bombing at Gran Canaria.

Other incidents

Date Airline Aircraft type Registration Flight number People on board Fatalities
1956-09-29 Aviaco SNCASE Languedoc EC-AKV 38 0+1
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[21] 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.[22]

References

  1. ^ a b "AENA statistics for 2012" (PDF). Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Santa Bárbara suspenderá sus vuelos desde Venezuela con la Isla". El Día (in Spanish). 30 January 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  3. ^ "Air Europa News Update". Ch-aviation. 20 June 2009. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  4. ^ a b c "Tenerife pierde el vuelo directo con Miami". 20 Minutos (in Spanish). Europa Press. 27 May 2011. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  5. ^ Hernández, J. R. (14 December 2009). "Air Europa decide hacer fijo el vuelo directo entre Tenerife Norte y Miami". El Día (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  6. ^ "Air Europa reanuda hoy los vuelos directos Tenerife-Miami". Hosteltur (in Spanish). 19 June 2010. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  7. ^ "Plus Ultra Líneas Aéreas abre la ruta Tenerife Norte-Caracas". 20 Minutos (in Spanish). Europa Press. 15 March 2018. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  8. ^ "Infovuelos, toda la información de vuelos de Aena" [Flight info, all Aena flight information]. Aena (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 November 2016.
  9. ^ Liu, Jim. "Binter Canarias July / October 2020 network expansions". Routesonline. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  10. ^ a b "Binter oferta vuelos a Santander y Vitoria a partir de 30,65 euros". September 2021.
  11. ^ Liu, Jim. "Binter Canarias revises planned new routes in 2H20". Routesonline. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  12. ^ "Binter abre nuevas rutas en Europa con cinco destinos de Italia y Francia | Nota de prensa en Hosteltur".
  13. ^ "Aerolínea Plus Ultra reiniciará vuelos entre Caracas y Tenerife (+tarifas)". Banca y Negocios (in Spanish). 27 May 2022.
  14. ^ "Ryanair Anuncia 3 Nuevas Rutas Nacionales a las Islas Canarias | Ryanair's Corporate Website".
  15. ^ "Ryanair Launches Biggest Ever Spanish Domestic Schedule | Ryanair's Corporate Website".
  16. ^ "Ryanair".
  17. ^ "Vueling abre ruta Gando-Copenhague con un vuelo semanal desde agosto".
  18. ^ "Vueling suma cinco nuevas rutas entre Baleares y Alemania para Semana Santa".
  19. ^ "Vueling adds Tenerife North – Porto route in S21".
  20. ^ "Estadísticas de tráfico aéreo: Pasajeros, operaciones y carga" [Air traffic statistics: Passengers, operations and cargo]. Aena (in Spanish). 2019.
  21. ^ Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Douglas C-47A-25-DK (DC-3) EC-ARZ El Ortigal de Arriba, Tenerife". aviation-safety.net.
  22. ^ "Tenerife North Airport Bus".

External links

Media related to Tenerife North Airport at Wikimedia Commons

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