Fuerteventura Airport

Fuerteventura Airport Aeropuerto de Fuerteventura
IATA: FUE – ICAO: GCFV
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea
Serves	Fuerteventura
Location	Puerto del Rosario
Elevation AMSL	26 m / 86 ft
Coordinates	28°27′10″N 013°51′50″W / 28.45278°N 13.86389°W
Map
FUE Location of airport in Canary Islands
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 01L/19R (closed) 2,140 7,021 Asphalt 01R/19L 3,406 11,175 Asphalt
Statistics (2014)
Passengers 4,764,632 Passenger change 13-14 11.9 Aircraft Movements 40,066 Movements change 13-14 12.9
Sources: Passenger Traffic, AENA[1] Spanish AIP, AENA[2]

Interior of the terminal

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

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 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

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

Aerial view

Terminal exterior

Terminal interior

Iberia Airbus A320 at the airport

Puerto del Rosario Airport

view form the exterior

Control tower

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[6]
Edelweiss Air	Zürich
Europe Airpost	Brest, Nantes, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Eurowings	Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Vienna[7]
Eurowings operated by Germanwings	Cologne/Bonn
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, Rostock Seasonal: Dresden, Erfurt/Weimar, Nuremberg
Germania Flug	Zürich
Helvetic Airways	Geneva, Zürich
Iberia operated by Air Nostrum	Málaga, Santiago de Compostela, Sevilla, Valencia
Iberia Express	Madrid
Jet Time	Billund, Copenhagen, Göteborg–Landvetter, Helsinki, Örebro
Jet2.com	Belfast–International, Birmingham (begins 2 April 2017),[9] East Midlands, Edinburgh, (begins 19 December 2016)[10] Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, London-Stansted (begins 31 March 2017),[11] 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,[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
Small Planet Airlines (Poland)	Gdańsk, Katowice, Kraków, Warsaw-Chopin, Wrocław
SmartLynx Airlines	Tallinn
SmartWings operated by Travel Service	Prague
SmartWings operated by Travel Service Polska	Seasonal: Warsaw-Chopin
Sundair	Kassel (begins 07 July 2017)
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
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 Belgium[13]	Brussels, Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly, Strasbourg, Toulouse
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	Amsterdam (begins 8 April), 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[14]

Statistics

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

1. AENA passenger statistics and aircraft movements
2. Spanish AIP (AENA)
3. EAD Basic
4. http://www.aena-aeropuertos.es/csee/Satellite/Aeropuerto-Fuerteventura/en/Page/1048858925027/
5. "Sunway-Flights". Sunway. 11 October 2015.
6. "easyJet Plans New Routes in 16Q4". routesonline. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
7. http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/267102/eurowings-expands-vienna-network-in-w16/
8. "Germania Flight Schedule / 30.12.2014 - 01.11.2015" (PDF). Germania.
9. "Jet2.com Adds Birmingham Routes in S17". routesonline. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
10. http://www.jet2.com/
11. http://www.jet2.com/timetable
12. "Ryanair Expands Berlin Schoenefeld Routes from Nov 2016". airlineroute. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
13. "Jetairfly Flight Plan". Jetairfly.
14. http://bbj.hu/business/wizz-air-announces-two-new-routes_115202

External links

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