Fuerteventura Airport
| Fuerteventura Airport Aeropuerto de Fuerteventura | |||||||||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||
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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
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Statistics
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| Updated: 16 January 2015. 2014 data Provisional.[1] |
| Passengers | Aircraft movements | Cargo (tonnes) | |
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| 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 2 3 AENA passenger statistics and aircraft movements
- ↑ Spanish AIP (AENA)
- ↑ EAD Basic
- ↑ http://www.aena-aeropuertos.es/csee/Satellite/Aeropuerto-Fuerteventura/en/Page/1048858925027/
- ↑ "Sunway-Flights". Sunway. 11 October 2015.
- ↑ "Germania Flight Schedule / 30.12.2014 - 01.11.2015" (PDF). Germania.
- ↑ "Jetairfly Flight Plan". Jetairfly.
- ↑ http://www.orebroairport.se/flyginformation/tidtabell/fuerteventura-spanien.html
- 1 2 http://www.jet2.com/
- ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2016/04/26/ig-s16/
- ↑ http://www.neosair.it/Default.aspx?lang=en
- ↑ "Ryanair Expands Berlin Schoenefeld Routes from Nov 2016". airlineroute. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
- 1 2 "SmartWings Contact". smartwings.com.
- 1 2 "SmartWings Flight schedule". smartwings.com.
- ↑ http://www.sunexpress.com/
- ↑ http://www.flythomascook.com/Select.aspx
- ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2015/09/23/vy-cdg-may16/
- ↑ http://www.vueling.com/en
- ↑ "New Routes from Rome S16" (in Italian). 5 October 2015. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
- ↑ http://bbj.hu/business/wizz-air-announces-two-new-routes_115202
External links
Media related to Fuerteventura Airport at Wikimedia Commons
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