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Tenerife North–Ciudad de La Laguna Airport (IATA: TFN, ICAO: GCXO), formerly Los Rodeos Airport, is the smaller of the two international airports on the island of Tenerife, Spain. It is located in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, 11 km (7 mi) by road from Santa Cruz and at an elevation 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,[1] surpassing Gran Canaria Airport. Today TFN is an inter-island hub connecting all seven of the main Canary Islands with connections to the Iberian Peninsula and Europe.

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Tenerife North-Ciudad de La Laguna Airport Aeropuerto de Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna
IATA: TFN ICAO: GCXO
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner/Operator	Aena
Serves	Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife
Location	San Cristóbal de La Laguna
Elevation AMSL	633 m / 2,077 ft
Coordinates	28°28′58″N 016°20′30″W
Website	https://www.aena.es/es/tenerife-norte-ciudad-de-la-laguna.html
Map
TFN Location of airport in Canary Islands
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 12/30 3,394 11,135 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers 5,840,483 Passenger change 18-19 6.3% Aircraft Movements 75,385 Movements change 18-19 2.9% Cargo (t) 12,596 Cargo change 18-19 0.7%
Source: Statistics from AENA [1] Spanish AIP at EUROCONTROL

In 1977, the airport was the infamous site of the deadliest accident in aviation history, when two Boeing 747s collided on the runway in heavy fog conditions, causing the deaths of 583 passengers and crew.

History

Early years

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 V I (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.

After the final location of the airport had been decided, funds were gathered between 1935 and 1939 to build a small hangar and begin expanding the airstrip which would become Los Rodeos.

Operations into Los Rodeos recommenced on 23 January 1941 with a De Havilland DH89A Dragon Rapide operating an Iberia flight from Gando in Gran Canaria. By 1946, more hangars, a passenger terminal and an 800 m (2,625 ft) paved runway had been built, and the airport was officially opened to all national and international traffic. The runway was stretched at various times during the 1940s and 1950s, reaching a length of 2,400 m (7,874 ft) in 1953, by which time the airport was also equipped with runway edge lighting and an air-ground radio, enabling night operations.

Development since the 1960s

By 1964, runway 12/30 had been stretched to 3,000 m (9,843 ft) to accommodate the DC-8, new navigation aids were installed, and the apron was expanded to provide more parking spaces for aircraft. In 1971, with the prospect of the Boeing 747 flying into the airport, the runway was reinforced and an ILS (Instrument Landing System) was installed.

A new airport, Tenerife South Airport, was inaugurated on 6 November 1978, in response to the 1977 Tenerife airport disaster which resulted in the highest number of fatalities (excluding ground fatalities) of any single accident in aviation history. The south airport is situated at sea level to avert the occurrence of fog, one of the reasons for the crash.

On 25 April 1980, Dan-Air Flight 1008 Boeing 727 crashed near the airport, killing all 146 on board, in a controlled flight into terrain accident.

A new terminal was opened at Tenerife North Airport in 2002, comprising car park, motorway access ramps, and four-story terminal building, with 12 gates.^{[citation needed]} In February 2003, Santa Bárbara Airlines transferred its Caracas service from Reina Sofía Airport to Tenerife North.[2] An inter-island domestic area was opened in 2005.^{[citation needed]}

Using Airbus A330s, Air Europa introduced a direct route to Miami in June 2009.[3] The airline initially intended to end the link in October. Before the maiden flight, however, Air Europa stated the service would run until January due to high demand. In late 2009, the company decided to make the flight permanent.[4] Following a pause for aircraft maintenance, the carrier resumed services to Miami in June 2010.[4][5] The route would operate every summer, and the last flight of the season took place in October.[6] Nevertheless, the carrier then discontinued the link.[4]

Amid economic troubles in Venezuela, SBA Airlines, formerly known as Santa Bárbara Airlines, terminated its flights to Caracas in February 2014.[2] Four years later, Plus Ultra Líneas Aéreas began plying the same route with Airbus A340s.[7]

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Tenerife North:[8]

Airlines	Destinations
Air Europa	Bilbao, Madrid, Seville,
Binter Canarias	El Hierro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Gran Canaria, Jerez de la Frontera,[9] Lanzarote, La Palma, Palma de Mallorca, Santander,[10] Vigo, Vitoria,[10] Zaragoza[11] Seasonal: Asturias[12]
CanaryFly	El Hierro, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, La Palma
Iberia Express	Madrid
Iberia Regional	Seasonal: Alicante, Asturias, Santiago de Compostela, Valencia
Plus Ultra Líneas Aéreas	Caracas (resumes 26 November 2022)[13]
Ryanair	Barcelona, Madrid Seasonal: Alicante,[14] Palma de Mallorca,[15] Seville,[16] Valencia
Vueling	Alicante, Asturias, Barcelona, Bilbao, Copenhagen,[17] Granada, Lisbon, Málaga, Palma de Mallorca,[18] Porto,[19] Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Valencia, Zaragoza

Statistics

	Passengers	Aircraft movements	Cargo (tonnes)
2000	2,411,100	48,902	22,462
2001	2,511,277	49,132	21,060
2002	2,486,227	48,785	21,148
2003	2,919,087	53,718	23,842
2004	3,368,988	56,592	23,647
2005	3,754,513	60,235	22,163
2006	4,025,601	65,297	23,193
2007	4,125,131	65,843	25,169
2008	4,236,615	67,800	20,781
2009	4,054,147	62,776	18,304
2010	4,051,155	61,607	15,918
2011	4,095,103	62,590	15,745
2012	3,717,944	55,789	14,778
2013	3,524,470	49,289	13,493
2014	3,633,030	52,694	13,991
2015	3,815,315	53,259	12,819
2016	4,219,633	55,669	12,426
2017	4,704,863	61,098	13,044
2018	5,492,324	73,236	12,689
2019	5,840,483	75,385	12,596
2020	2,795,952	46,100	9,643
2021	3,840,160	54,581	11,884
Source: AENA[20]

Accidents and incidents

Tenerife airport disaster

On 27 March 1977, Tenerife North Airport (then Tenerife Los Rodeos) was the scene of the deadliest accident in aviation history, which claimed the lives of 583 people. While attempting to take off, KLM Flight 4805, a Boeing 747-206B, collided with Pan Am Flight 1736, a Boeing 747-121, which was taxiing along the runway. All 248 passengers and crew on the KLM flight were killed, along with 335 occupants of the Pan Am flight; however, 61 of the passengers and crew on board the Pan Am survived. Neither of the two airliners was originally scheduled to land on Tenerife, as both flights were bound for Gran Canaria Airport but had been diverted to Los Rodeos as a result of a terrorist bombing at Gran Canaria.

Other incidents

Date	Airline	Aircraft type	Registration	Flight number	People on board	Fatalities
1956-09-29	Aviaco	SNCASE Languedoc	EC-AKV		38	0+1
1964-07-03	Ejército del Aire	Douglas DC-3			21	4
1965-05-05	Iberia	Lockheed L-1049G	EC-AIN	401	49	30
1965-12-07	Spantax	Douglas DC-3	EC-ARZ[21]		32	32
1966-09-16	Iberia	Douglas DC-3	EC-ACX	261	27	1
1970-01-05	Iberia	Fokker F-27 Friendship 600	EC-BOD		49	0
1972-12-03	Spantax	Convair CV-990	EC-BZR	275	155	155
1978-02-15	Sabena	Boeing 707-329	OO-SJE		196	0
1980-04-25	Dan-Air	Boeing 727-46	G-BDAN	1008	146	146

Ground transport

Bus routes 20, 30, 103 and 343 serve the airport.[22]

References

External links

Media related to Tenerife North Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website (in Spanish and German)
• Airlines Pilot Association (ALPA) Article on 1977 KLM-PanAm disaster

На других языках

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[de] Flughafen Teneriffa Nord

Der Flughafen Teneriffa Nord (spanisch Aeropuerto de Tenerife Norte, bis 1978 Aeropuerto Internacional de los Rodeos; englisch Tenerife North Airport) ist nach dem Flughafen Teneriffa Süd – Reina Sofia – der kleinere der beiden internationalen Verkehrsflughäfen der spanischen Insel Teneriffa. Das spanische Heer nutzt den Platz als Base de Los Rodeos als Stationierungsort des Batallón de Helicópteros de Canarias (BHELMA VI) seiner Heeresflieger Fuerzas Aeromóviles del Ejército de Tierra (FAMET).

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- [en] Tenerife North–Ciudad de La Laguna Airport

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[es] Aeropuerto de Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna

El Aeropuerto Internacional de Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna (IATA: TFN, OACI: GCXO), antiguo Aeropuerto de Los Rodeos, es un aeropuerto español de Aena situado en la Isla de Tenerife, en el municipio de San Cristóbal de La Laguna. Su categoría OACI es 4-D, mientras que para la DGAC española es un aeropuerto de segunda categoría.

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[fr] Aéroport de Tenerife-Nord

L’aéroport de Ténérife-Nord (en espagnol : Aeropuerto de Tenerife Norte, Code AITA : TFN, OACI : GCXO), anciennement l'aéroport de Los Rodeos, est l'un des deux aéroports internationaux de l'île de Tenerife en Espagne.

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[it] Aeroporto di Tenerife-Nord

L'Aeroporto di Tenerife-Nord o Aeroporto di ciudad de La Laguna (ICAO: GCXO - IATA: TFN) è un aeroporto spagnolo situato a due chilometri da San Cristóbal de La Laguna e a undici chilometri da Santa Cruz de Tenerife, nelle Isole Canarie.

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[ru] Тенерифе-Северный

Аэропорт Тенерифе-Северный (исп. Aeropuerto de Tenerife Norte) (ИАТА: TFN, ИКАО: GCXO) — международный аэропорт, расположенный на севере острова Тенерифе (архипелаг Канарских островов), близ города Сан-Кристобаль-де-ла-Лагуна.

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