Fuerteventura Airport

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Fuerteventura Airport

Aeropuerto de Fuerteventura
AMSL
25 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[1]
Spanish AIP, ENAIRE[2]

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[2][3] 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.[1]

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.[4]

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.[5]

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
better source needed
]
Air Nostrum Seasonal charter: Porto[7]
better source needed
]
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna
Binter Canarias Gran Canaria, La Palma,[9] Tenerife–North
Seasonal: Funchal[10]
British Airways Seasonal: London–Gatwick[11]
Brussels Airlines Brussels (resumes 27 October 2024)[12]
CanaryFly
Gran Canaria, Tenerife–North
Chair Airlines Seasonal: Zürich
Condor Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Stuttgart
Seasonal: Nuremberg (begins 31 October 2024),[13]
Corendon Airlines Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hannover, Nuremberg
Discover Airlines Frankfurt, Munich[14]
Amsterdam, Birmingham, Edinburgh
Zürich
Eurowings Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg
Seasonal: Berlin, Nuremberg,[15] Stuttgart
Poznan, Wrocław
Seasonal charter: Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden
Finnair Seasonal charter: Helsinki[16]
Cologne/Bonn, Leipzig/Halle, Paderborn/Lippstadt
Madrid
Seasonal: Seville, Valencia
Madrid
Jet2.com Belfast–International, Birmingham, Bournemouth (begins 2 April 2025),[17] Bristol, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Lufthansa Seasonal: Munich[18]
Luxair Luxembourg
Marabu Seasonal: Munich
Rome–Fiumicino, Verona
Play Seasonal: Reykjavík–Keflavík
Naples, Newcastle upon Tyne, Pisa, Santiago de Compostela,[19] Seville, Shannon, Vienna
Seasonal: Bristol (begins 1 July 2024),[20] Cork,[21] Kraków,[21] Liverpool,[22] Rome–Fiumicino, Weeze
Oslo-Gardermoen[25]
Brno, Budapest, Katowice, Prague, Warsaw–Chopin[26]
Stockholm-Arlanda
Sundair[27] Berlin, Bremen, Dresden, Kassel
TAP Air Portugal Lisbon[28]
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,[29] Rotterdam
Volotea Asturias, Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Toulouse
Seasonal: Lille[30]
Santiago de Compostela, Seville
Wizz Air Seasonal: Katowice, Warsaw–Chopin[32]

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[1]

Car Rental Companies

Several car rental companies authorized by AENA operate at Fuerteventura Airport: AutoReisen,[33] Top Car, Cicar, Hertz, Goldcar, Europcar, Avis, Payless and Sixt. All of these companies are located in the arrivals hall for international and domestic flights. There are other car rental companies operating outside the airport, but they are not authorized by AENA.[34]

* Updated as of January 2024.

References

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  3. ^ "EAD Basic - Error Page". www.ead.eurocontrol.int. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  4. ^ "Fuerteventura Airport Guide". Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  5. ^ "History - Fuerteventura Airport - Aena Aeropuertos". Archived from the original on 25 October 2014. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
  6. ^ "Aer Lingus booking engine". www.aerlingus.com.
  7. ^ "AIR NOSTRUM NS23 PORTUGAL SCHEDULED CHARTER SERVICE ADDITIONS".
  8. ^ "Albastar annuncia la programmazione estiva in partenza dall'Aeroporto di Milano Bergamo". AlbaStar. 21 March 2022.
  9. ^ Liu, Jim. "Binter expands Santa Cruz de la Palma service from July 2019". Routesonline. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
  10. ^ "Binter Expands Funchal/Madeira Network In 3Q22". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
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  13. ^ "Die Tickets sind bereits buchbar: Fluggesellschaft steuert bald neue Ziele von Nürnberg aus an".
  14. ^ "Umstellung des touristischen Kurz- und Mittelstreckenangebots auf Eurowings Discover" (PDF). Lufthansa Group (in German).
  15. ^ "EUROWINGS NW23 SPAIN NETWORK ADDITIONS".
  16. ^ "Fuerteventura - Auringonpalvojien suosikki - Apollomatkat".
  17. ^ https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/bournemouth-airport-jet2-tui-ryanair-b2518690.html
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  19. ^ "Ryanair tendrá tres nuevas rutas este verano desde Santiago a Fuerteventura, Ibiza y Menorca". 8 April 2021.
  20. ^ "Ryanair will launch a new routes from Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Leeds and London".
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  22. ^ "Ryanair NW23 Network Changes – 17SEP23".
  23. ^ "Rejser til Fuerteventura - Apollo Rejser". www.apollorejser.dk.
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  25. ^ "Fuerteventura | Bestill reise til Fuerteventura her | Apollo". www.apollo.no.
  26. ^ "Wakacyjne kierunki z Lotniska Chopina. Sporo nowych destynacji". pasazer.com. 19 April 2021. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  27. ^ "Flugplan". Sundair.
  28. ^ Liu, Jim. "TAP Air Portugal NS21 Short-Haul network additions as of 11SEP20". Routesonline. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  29. ^ "TUIfly Netherlands 1Q24 Boeing 767 European Operations".
  30. ^ "Volotea volará desde Tenerife, Fuerteventura y Lanzarote a Lille". 21 July 2022.
  31. ^ "Vueling to use former Air France slots to launch 32 Paris Orly routes". routesonline.com. 1 October 2021.
  32. ^ "Wizz Air poleci z Rzeszowa do Oslo i Londynu. Nowe wakacyjne trasy z Warszawy i Gdańska".
  33. ^ "Car Rental at Fuerteventura Airport". Autoreisen
  34. ^ "Aena: Rent a Car". AENA Authorized Car Rental Companies

External links

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