Fuerteventura Airport (IATA : FUE , ICAO : GCFV ), also known as El Matorral Airport , is an airport serving the Spanish island of Fuerteventura . It is situated in El Matorral site, 5 km (3.1 mi) southwest[3] of the capital city Puerto del Rosario .
History [ edit ]
Early years [ edit ]
The airport was opened officially on 14 September 1969. The first plane to touch down on the new runway was an Iberia Fokker F27 , which flew the route Las Palmas -Fuerteventura -Lanzarote .
In 1973 El Matorral Airport began to operate its first flights to European countries with the airline Condor , which linked the German city of Düsseldorf directly with Puerto del Rosario . In the following years, the airport experienced considerable growth in the number of operations, which resulted in a series of improvements, starting in 1978, to ensure that the working of the aerodrome continued to meet the needs of the passengers.
Development since the 1990s [ edit ]
In 1992, the airport received more than 1,600,000 passengers, which made it necessary to carry out extensive refurbishment of the terminal and aircraft parking areas.
In 1994, construction started on a new terminal building, an aircraft apron, a taxiway parallel to the runway, a power plant and a new access road. The works were completed with the extension of the car park and a detour on the Puerto de Rosario-Matorral, road adding some two kilometres, of which 1.5 are double lane. With the new facilities it was possible to attend around five million passengers a year and manage around 3,100 passengers per hour during rush-hour periods.[4]
Airlines and destinations [ edit ]
Airlines
Destinations
Aer Lingus
Dublin
Aigle Azur
Paris–Orly
Air Berlin
Berlin–Tegel , Cologne/Bonn , Düsseldorf , Hamburg , Leipzig/Halle , Munich , Nuremberg , Zürich
Air Europa
Asturias , Barcelona , Bilbao , Málaga , Madrid , Santiago de Compostela
ASL Airlines Ireland
Seasonal charter: Dublin [5]
Atlantic Airways
Billund
Austrian Airlines
Vienna
Air VIA
Frankfurt , Hamburg
Binter Canarias
operated by NAYSA
Gran Canaria , Tenerife–North
British Airways
London–Gatwick
CanaryFly
Gran Canaria , Tenerife–North
Condor
Berlin-Schönefeld , Düsseldorf , Frankfurt , Hamburg , Hannover , Leipzig/Halle , Manchester , Munich , Stuttgart
Corendon Dutch Airlines
Amsterdam
easyJet
Bristol , Hamburg , Liverpool , London–Gatwick
easyJet Switzerland
Basel/Mulhouse , Geneva (begins 1 November 2016)[6]
Edelweiss Air
Zürich
Europe Airpost
Brest , Nantes , Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Eurowings
Cologne/Bonn , Düsseldorf (begins 1 November 2016), Hamburg (begins 31 October 2016), Vienna (begins 1 November 2016)[7]
Enter Air
Biarritz , Gdańsk , Katowice , Lyon , Nantes , Paris–Charles de Gaulle , Poznań , Saint-Étienne , Toulouse , Warsaw–Chopin , Wrocław
Finnair
Helsinki
Germania [8]
Bremen , Friedrichshafen , Hamburg , Münster/Osnabrück , Toulouse
Seasonal: Dresden , Erfurt/Weimar , Kassel , Nuremberg (begins 29 October 2016), Rostock , Zürich (begins 4 November 2016)
Germanwings
Cologne/Bonn
Helvetic Airways
Geneva , Zürich
Iberia
operated by Air Nostrum
Málaga , Santiago de Compostela , Sevilla , Valencia
Iberia Express
Madrid
Jetairfly [9]
Brussels , Lille , Lyon , Nantes , Paris–Charles de Gaulle , Paris–Orly , Strasbourg , Toulouse
Jet Time
Billund , Copenhagen , Göteborg–Landvetter , Helsinki , Örebro
Jet2.com
Belfast–International , Birmingham (begins 2 April 2017),[10] East Midlands , Edinburgh , (begins 19 December 2016)[11] Glasgow , Leeds/Bradford , Manchester , Newcastle upon Tyne
Lufthansa
Seasonal: Munich
Luxair
Luxembourg
Meridiana
Milan–Malpensa , Rome–Fiumicino , Verona
Seasonal: Bergamo
Monarch Airlines
Birmingham , London–Gatwick , Manchester
Neos
Bologna , Milan–Malpensa Rome-Fiumicino , Verona
Niki
Salzburg , Vienna
Seasonal: Linz
Norwegian Air Shuttle
Barcelona , London–Gatwick , Oslo–Gardermoen
Novair
Seasonal: Copenhagen , Göteborg–Landvetter , Karlstad , Malmö , Oslo–Gardermoen , Stavanger , Stockholm–Arlanda , Växjö
Primera Air
Aalborg , Aarhus , Billund , Copenhagen , Göteborg–Landvetter , Helsinki , Joensuu , Jönköping , Jyväskylä , Kokkola , Kuopio , Lappeenranta , Pori , Malmö , Norrköping , Oulu , Örebro , Oslo–Gardermoen , Stockholm–Arlanda , Växjö
Privilege Style
operated by Swiftair
Lisbon , Porto
Ryanair
Barcelona , Bergamo , Berlin-Schönefeld (begins 30 October 2016),[12] Birmingham , Bremen , Charleroi , Dublin , East Midlands , Edinburgh , Leeds/Bradford , Liverpool , London–Stansted , Madrid , Manchester , Pisa , Prestwick , Shannon , Warsaw-Modlin , Weeze
Seasonal: London–Luton
Scandinavian Airlines
Billund , Copenhagen , Luleå , Stockholm–Arlanda
Small Planet Airlines
Brest , Clermont-Ferrand , Katowice , Lyon , Marseille , Nantes , Paris–Charles de Gaulle , Warsaw–Chopin , Zielona Góra , Kraków , Vilnius (12 February 2017)
Small Planet Airlines (Poland)
Gdańsk , Katowice , Kraków , Warsaw-Chopin , Wrocław
SmartLynx Airlines
Riga (begins January 2017), Tallinn (begins 22 October 2016)
SmartWings
operated by Travel Service
Seasonal: Prague
SmartWings
operated by Travel Service Polska
Seasonal: Warsaw-Chopin
SunExpress Deutschland
Cologne/Bonn , Düsseldorf , Frankfurt , Hamburg , Hannover , Leipzig/Halle , Nuremberg , Munich , Paderborn/Lippstadt , Stuttgart
Thomas Cook Airlines
Birmingham , Bristol , East Midlands , Glasgow , London–Gatwick , Leeds/Bradford , Manchester
Seasonal: Aberdeen , Belfast–International , Cardiff , London–Stansted , Newcastle upon Tyne
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium
Brussels , Lille
Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia
Billund , Copenhagen , Göteborg–Landvetter , Stockholm–Arlanda
Thomson Airways
Birmingham , East Midlands , Glasgow , London–Gatwick , Manchester
Seasonal: Bristol , London–Luton , London–Stansted , Newcastle upon Tyne
Transavia
Amsterdam , Munich (begins 30 October 2016)
Transavia France
Paris–Orly
Travel Service
Bordeaux , Brest , Clermont-Ferrand , Gdańsk , Katowice , Kraków , Lille , Łódź , Lourdes , Lublin , Lyon , Nantes , Nice , Ostrava , Paris–Charles de Gaulle , Poznań , Prague , Toulouse , Warsaw–Chopin , Warsaw-Modlin , Wrocław
TUI Airlines Netherlands
Amsterdam , Eindhoven
TUIfly
Basel/Mulhouse , Cologne/Bonn , Düsseldorf , Frankfurt , Hannover , Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden , Nuremberg , Munich , Saarbrücken , Stuttgart
TUIfly Nordic
Stockholm–Arlanda
Volotea
Bordeaux , Nantes
Vueling
Barcelona , Bilbao , Málaga , Paris-Charles de Gaulle , Santiago de Compostela , Rome–Fiumicino
Seasonal: Sevilla
XL Airways France
Lille , Paris–Charles de Gaulle
White Airways
Lisbon , Lyon , Nantes , Paris–Charles de Gaulle , Porto
Wizz Air
Budapest (begins 30 October 2016)[13]
Statistics [ edit ]
Fuerteventura Airport Passenger Totals 2000-2013 (millions)
Updated: 16 January 2015. 2014 data Provisional.[1]
Passengers
Aircraft movements
Cargo (tonnes)
2000
3,467,614
31,663
4,487
2001
3,577,638
30,471
3,837
2002
3,620,576
32,520
3,712
2003
3,919,224
39,695
3,694
2004
3,917,109
39,865
3,639
2005
4,071,875
40,415
3,178
2006
4,458,711
44,044
3,196
2007
4,629,877
44,870
3,127
2008
4,492,003
44,552
2,722
2009
3,738,492
36,429
1,913
2010
4,173,686
39,437
1,710
2011
4,948,018
44,551
1,557
2012
4,399,023
37,772
1,214
2013
4,259,341
35,498
1,022
2014
4,764,632
40,066
978
Source: Aena Statistics [1]
References [ edit ]
External links [ edit ]
Media related to Fuerteventura Airport at Wikimedia Commons
Major international
Minor international
Domestic
Unscheduled