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Tenerife North Airport

Tenerife North Airport
Aeropuerto de Tenerife Norte
Norda flughaveno de Tenerifo, turo, 2.jpeg
Summary
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°W / 28.48278; -16.34167Coordinates: 28°28′58″N 016°20′30″W / 28.48278°N 16.34167°W / 28.48278; -16.34167
Website aena-aeropuertos.es
Map
TFN is located in Canary Islands
TFN
TFN
Location of airport in Canary Islands
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
12/30 3,394 11,135 Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Passengers 3,815,315
Passenger change 14-15 Increase5.0%
Aircraft Movements 53,259
Movements change 14-15 Increase1.1%
Cargo (t) Decrease12.818,8
Source: Statistics from AENA
Spanish AIP at EUROCONTROL
Passengers 3,815,315
Passenger change 14-15 Increase5.0%
Aircraft Movements 53,259
Movements change 14-15 Increase1.1%
Cargo (t) Decrease12.818,8

Tenerife North Airport (IATA: TFNICAO: 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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