Fuerteventura Airport

Fuerteventura Airport

Aeropuerto de Fuerteventura
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorAena
ServesFuerteventura
LocationPuerto del Rosario
Elevation AMSL25 m / 83 ft
Coordinates28°27′10″N 013°51′50″W / 28.45278°N 13.86389°W / 28.45278; -13.86389
Map
FUE is located in Canary Islands
FUE
FUE
Location of airport in Canary Islands
FUE is located in Fuerteventura
FUE
FUE
FUE (Fuerteventura)
FUE is located in Spain, Canary Islands
FUE
FUE
FUE (Spain, Canary Islands)
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
01/19 3,406 11,175 Asphalt
Statistics (2022)
Passengers5,641,500
Passenger change 21-22Increase81.2%
Aircraft Movements48,690
Movements change 21-22Increase44.9%
Sources: Passenger Traffic, AENA
Spanish AIP, ENAIRE

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, 5 km (3 mi) southwest of the capital city Puerto del Rosario. The airport has flight connections to over 80 destinations worldwide, and over 5.6 million passengers passed through it in 2019.

The airport has one terminal building with two floors. The ground floor has two sections; one section is for flight arrivals and the other for flight departures. The first floor has the departures lounge and 24 boarding gates. In total, the terminal covers over 92,000 m2 and it has the capacity to handle 8.2 million passengers per year.

History

Early years

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 Gran Canaria-Fuerteventura-Lanzarote.[citation needed]

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.[citation needed]

Development since the 1990s

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 handle around five million passengers a year and manage around 3,100 passengers per hour at peak periods.

Airlines and destinations

Aerial view
Terminal exterior
Puerto del Rosario Airport
View from the exterior
Control tower

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Fuerteventura Airport:

AirlinesDestinations
Aer Lingus Seasonal: Dublin
Air Nostrum Seasonal charter: Porto
AlbaStar Seasonal: Bergamo
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna
Binter Canarias Gran Canaria, La Palma, Tenerife–North
Seasonal: Funchal
British Airways Seasonal: London–Gatwick (resumes 2 November 2023)
CanaryFly Gran Canaria, Tenerife–North
Chair Airlines Seasonal: Zürich
Condor Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Stuttgart
Corendon Airlines Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hannover, Nuremberg
Discover Airlines Frankfurt, Munich
easyJet Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin, Bristol, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Milan–Malpensa
Seasonal: Amsterdam, Birmingham (begins 4 April 2024), Edinburgh, Manchester
Edelweiss Air Zürich
Eurowings Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg
Seasonal: Berlin, Nuremberg (resumes 3 November 2023), Stuttgart
Enter Air Katowice, Warsaw–Chopin, Poznan, Wrocław
Seasonal charter: Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden
Finnair Seasonal charter: Helsinki
Freebird Airlines Seasonal charter: Cologne/Bonn, Leipzig/Halle, Paderborn/Lippstadt
Iberia Madrid
Seasonal: Seville, Valencia
Iberia Express Madrid
Jet2.com Belfast–International, Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool (begins 30 March 2024), London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Lufthansa Seasonal: Munich
Luxair Luxembourg
Marabu Seasonal: Munich
Neos Bologna, Milan–Malpensa, Rome–Fiumicino, Verona
Play Seasonal: Reykjavík–Keflavík (begins 29 December 2023)
Ryanair Barcelona, Bergamo, Berlin, Birmingham, Bologna, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Cork (begins 2 November 2023), Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Leeds/Bradford, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Madrid, Manchester, Memmingen, Naples, Newcastle upon Tyne, Pisa, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Shannon, Vienna
Seasonal: Kraków (begins 3 November 2023), Liverpool, Rome–Fiumicino, Valencia (ends 7 November 2023), Weeze
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal charter: Copenhagen, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Oslo-Gardermoen
Smartwings Brno, Budapest, Katowice, Prague, Warsaw–Chopin
Sunclass Airlines Seasonal charter: Stockholm-Arlanda
Sundair Berlin, Bremen, Dresden, Kassel
TAP Air Portugal Lisbon
Transavia Amsterdam
Seasonal: Nantes, Paris–Orly
TUI Airways Birmingham, Bristol, London–Gatwick, Manchester
TUI fly Belgium Brussels
TUI fly Deutschland Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart
TUI fly Netherlands Amsterdam, Rotterdam
Volotea Asturias, Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Toulouse
Seasonal: Lille
Vueling Barcelona, Bilbao, Málaga, Paris–Orly, Santiago de Compostela, Seville
Wizz Air Seasonal: Katowice, Warsaw–Chopin

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at FUE airport. See Wikidata query.
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
2015 5,027,415 39,307 937
2016 5,676,323 45,456 945
2017 6,049,291 48,216 946
2018 6,118,893 51,541 874
2019 5,635,417 47.223 735
Source: Aena Statistics

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