Tenerife South Airport

Tenerife South "Reina Sofia" Airport (IATA: TFS ICAO: GCTS) is an airport in the south-west of the island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands.

Tenerife South Airport Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur Tenerife Sur/Reina Sofía Airport - GCTS
IATA: TFS ICAO: GCTS
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	ENAIRE
Operator	Aena
Serves	Tenerife
Location	Granadilla de Abona
Elevation AMSL	64 m / 209 ft
Coordinates	28°02′40″N 016°34′21″W
Map
TFS Location in the Canary Islands
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 07/25 3,200 10,498 Asphalt
Statistics (2018)
Passengers 11,042,481 Passenger change 17-18 1.8% Movements 69,910 Movements change 17-18 0.1% Cargo (t) 2,483
Sources: Passenger Traffic, AENA[1] Spanish AIP, AENA

Outside of Tenerife South Airport

This is actually one of two airports in Tenerife, the other one is Tenerife North (Los Rodeos). Most of the flights bringing people on holiday to the island use this airport. The airport was opened in 1978 after it was decided in a few years earlier that Tenerife needed a new airport urgently due to foggy weather closing Tenerife North airport quite often. The first flight to land at the airport was carrying the Queen of Spain Her Majesty Queen Sofia, the airport is named after her. The airport is operated by a company called AENA which operates all civil airports in Spain.

In 2009, just over 7 million passengers used the airport. In 2017, it had traffic of 11,249,327 passengers, 69,846 flight operations and 2,797 tons of merchandise.