Fuerteventura Airport

Fuerteventura Airport
Aeropuerto de Fuerteventura
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorAENA
ServesFuerteventura
LocationPuerto del Rosario
Elevation AMSL25 m (82 ft)
Coordinates28°27′10″N 013°51′50″W / 28.45278°N 13.86389°W / 28.45278; -13.86389
Websiteaena.es
Map
FUE is located in Spain, Canary Islands
FUE
FUE
Location within Spain
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

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
Aer Lingus Seasonal: Dublin[6]
Air Nostrum Seasonal charter: Porto
Binter Canarias Gran Canaria,[7] La Palma, Tenerife–North[7]
Seasonal: Funchal
British Airways Seasonal: London–Gatwick
Brussels Airlines Brussels[8]
CanaryFly Gran Canaria,[7] Tenerife–North[7]
Condor Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich,[9] Stuttgart
Seasonal: Münster/Osnabrück (begins 2 May 2027),[10] Nuremberg[11]
Corendon Airlines Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hannover
Discover Airlines Frankfurt, Munich[12]
easyJet Birmingham, Bristol,[13] Liverpool,[14] London–Gatwick,[13] London–Luton, Manchester, Milan–Malpensa, Newcastle upon Tyne (begins 25 October 2026),[15] Paris–Charles de Gaulle[14]
Seasonal: Belfast–International,[14] Glasgow,[14] Naples
Edelweiss Air Zürich[16]
Eurowings Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg
Seasonal: Berlin, Nuremberg, Prague,[17] Stuttgart
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki[18]
Iberia Madrid
Seasonal: Santiago de Compostela
Jet2.com Belfast–International,[19] Birmingham, Bournemouth,[20] Bristol, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow,[21] Leeds/Bradford,[22] Liverpool, London–Gatwick,[23] London–Luton,[24] London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
LEAV Aviation Seasonal: Münster Osnabrück[25]
Luxair Luxembourg
Marabu Cologne/Bonn
Neos Bologna,[26] Milan–Malpensa,[27] Rome–Fiumicino,[28] Verona[29]
Ryanair Bergamo,[13] Birmingham,[13] Bologna,[13] Bristol, Cologne/Bonn,[13] Cork, Dublin,[13] East Midlands,[13] Edinburgh,[13] Kraków, Leeds/Bradford,[13] London–Stansted,[13] Manchester,[13] Newcastle upon Tyne,[13] Pisa,[13] Santiago de Compostela,[30] Seville,[13] Shannon,[13] Vienna,[13] Weeze[13]
Seasonal: Bournemouth, Liverpool, London–Luton,[13] Milan–Malpensa
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Copenhagen
Seasonal charter: Oslo[31]
Smartwings Brno, Prague, Warsaw–Chopin[32]
Seasonal charter: Budapest
Sundair Berlin, Bremen,[33] Dresden, Münster/Osnabrück
TAP Air Portugal Lisbon
Transavia Amsterdam[34]
TUI Airways Cardiff, London–Gatwick, Manchester
TUI fly Belgium Brussels
TUI fly Deutschland Düsseldorf,[35] Frankfurt,[36] Hannover,[37] Munich,[38] Stuttgart[39]
TUI fly Netherlands Amsterdam, Rotterdam[40]
Volotea Asturias,[41] Nantes[42]
Seasonal: Lille[43]
Vueling Barcelona, Bilbao, Málaga, Paris–Orly, Santiago de Compostela, Seville
Wizz Air Santiago de Compostela (begins 2 February 2027)[44]
Seasonal: Katowice, Warsaw–Chopin[45]

Statistics

PassengersYear2,000,0003,000,0004,000,0005,000,0006,000,0007,000,000200020052010201520202025PassengersAnnual passenger traffic
YearPassengersAircraft movementsCargo
(tonnes)
2000 3,467,61431,6634,487
2001 3,577,63830,4713,837
2002 3,620,57632,5203,712
2003 3,919,22439,6953,694
2004 3,917,10939,8653,639
2005 4,071,87540,4153,178
2006 4,458,71144,0443,196
2007 4,629,87744,8703,127
2008 4,492,00344,5522,722
2009 3,738,49236,4291,913
2010 4,173,68639,4371,710
2011 4,948,01844,5511,557
2012 4,399,02337,7721,214
2013 4,259,34135,4981,022
2014 4,764,63240,066978
2015 5,027,41539,307937
2016 5,676,32345,456945
2017 6,049,29148,216946
2018 6,118,89351,541874
2019 5,635,41747.223735
Source: Aena Statistics[1]

Busiest routes

Busiest international routes from FUE (2023)
Rank Destination Passengers Change 2022/23
1 Düsseldorf 297,986 Increase 8%
2 Manchester 271,122 Increase 19%
3 Frankfurt 251,962 Increase 8%
4 London-Gatwick 191,602 Increase 20%
5 Hamburg 177,154 Increase 13%
6 London-Stansted 175,354 Increase 11%
7 Birmingham 160,573 Increase 9%
8 Munich 143,352 Steady 0%
9 Hannover 114,607 Increase 3%
10 Stuttgart 112,342 Increase 26%
11 Bristol 106,282 Increase 16%
12 Cologne/Bonn 101,001 Decrease 20%
13 Amsterdam 100,214 Decrease 3%
14 Edinburgh 98,319 Increase 20%
15 Dublin 97,116 Increase 51%
16 Berlin 95,869 Increase 2%
17 Leeds/Bradford 92,002 Increase 14%
18 Newcastle 78,437 Increase 17%
19 London-Luton 78,058 Decrease 12%
20 Paris-Orly 77,268 Increase 19%
Source: Estadísticas de tráfico aereo[46]
Busiest domestic routes from FUE (2023)
Rank Destination Passengers Change 2022/23
1 Gran Canaria 653,628 Increase 10%
2 Madrid 414,160 Increase 6%
3 Tenerife-North 323,889 Increase 7%
4 Barcelona 153,905 Increase 4%
5 Seville 79,477 Increase 10%
6 Santiago de Compostela 74,114 Increase 29%
7 Bilbao 39,769 Decrease 11%
8 Valencia 20,241 Decrease 6%
9 Málaga 18,615 Decrease 8%
10 Asturias 10,577 Increase 8%
Source: Estadísticas de tráfico aereo[46]

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