Los Rodeos Airport
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Tenerife North Airport Aeropuerto de Tenerife Norte |
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Aena | ||||||||||
| Operator | Aena | ||||||||||
| Serves | Tenerife | ||||||||||
| Location | San Cristóbal de La Laguna | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 633 m / 2,077 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 28°28′58″N 016°20′30″W / 28.48278°N 16.34167°WCoordinates: 28°28′58″N 016°20′30″W / 28.48278°N 16.34167°W | ||||||||||
| Website | aena-aeropuertos.es | ||||||||||
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| Passengers | 3,815,315 |
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| Passenger change 14-15 |
 5.0% |
| Aircraft Movements | 53,259 |
| Movements change 14-15 |
1.1% |
| Cargo (t) |
 12.818,8 |
Tenerife North Airport (IATA: TFN, ICAO: GCXO), formerly Los Rodeos Airport, is one of the two international airports on the island of Tenerife, Spain. It is located in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, 11 km (6.8 mi) by road from Santa Cruz and at an altitude of 633 metres (2,077 ft). It handled 3,717,944 passengers in 2012. Combined with Tenerife South Airport, the island gathers the highest passenger movement of all the Canary Islands, with 12,248,673 passengers, surpassing Gran Canaria Airport. Today TFN is an inter-island hub connecting all seven Canary Islands with connections to the Iberian Peninsula, Europe, and North America.
In 1977, the airport was the site of the worst accident in aviation history when 583 passengers and crew were killed after two Boeing 747s collided on the runway in heavy fog.
Many years before the airport had even been built, the field at Los Rodeos was hastily prepared to accommodate the first (though unofficial) flight into Tenerife operated by an Arado VI (D-1594) aircraft operating from Berlin on behalf of Deutsche Luft Hansa.
In May 1930, the Compañía de Líneas Aéreas Subvencionadas S.A. (C.L.A.S.S.A.) established the first air link between the Spanish mainland and the Canary Islands using a Ford 4-AT Trimotor (M-CKKA), which took off from Getafe, Madrid to the Los Rodeos field via Casablanca, Cape Juby and Gando in Gran Canaria.
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