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Fuerteventura Airport

Aeropuerto de Fuerteventura
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorAena
ServesFuerteventura
LocationPuerto del Rosario
Elevation AMSL25 m / 83 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 Canary Islands
FUE
FUE
Location of airport in Canary Islands
FUE is located in Fuerteventura
FUE
FUE
FUE (Fuerteventura)
FUE is located in Spain, Canary Islands
FUE
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FUE (Spain, Canary Islands)
Map
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

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Early years

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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 Gran Canaria-Fuerteventura-Lanzarote.[citation needed]

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.[citation needed]

Development since the 1990s

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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

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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][better source needed]
Air Nostrum Seasonal charter: Porto[7]
AlbaStar Seasonal: Bergamo[8][better source needed]
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna
Binter Canarias Gran Canaria, La Palma,[9] Tenerife–North
Seasonal: Funchal[10]
Braathens International Airways Seasonal charter: Copenhagen,[11] Gothenburg[11] Stockholm–Arlanda[11]
British Airways Seasonal: London–Gatwick[12][13]
Brussels Airlines Brussels[14]
CanaryFly Gran Canaria, Tenerife–North
Chair Airlines Seasonal: Zürich
Condor Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Stuttgart
Seasonal: Nuremberg[15]
Corendon Airlines Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hannover, Nuremberg
Discover Airlines Frankfurt, Munich[16]
easyJet Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin, Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool (begins 19 February 2025),[17] London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Manchester,[18] Milan–Malpensa, Paris–Charles de Gaulle[17]
Seasonal: Amsterdam, Belfast–International,[17] Edinburgh, Glasgow[17]
Edelweiss Air Zürich
Eurowings Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg
Seasonal: Berlin, Nuremberg,[19] Stuttgart
Enter Air Katowice, Warsaw–Chopin, Poznan, Wrocław
Seasonal charter: Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden
Finnair Seasonal charter: Helsinki[20]
Freebird Airlines Seasonal charter: Cologne/Bonn, Leipzig/Halle, Paderborn/Lippstadt
Iberia Madrid[21]
Seasonal: Seville, Valencia
Iberia Express Madrid
Jet2.com Belfast–International, Birmingham, Bournemouth (begins 2 April 2025),[22] Bristol, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London–Luton (begins 6 April 2025),[23] London–Stansted, Manchester,[24] Newcastle upon Tyne
Lufthansa Seasonal: Munich[25]
Luxair Luxembourg[26]
Marabu Cologne/Bonn[27]
Seasonal: Munich
Neos Bologna, Milan–Malpensa, Rome–Fiumicino, Verona
Play Seasonal: Reykjavík–Keflavík[28]
Ryanair Barcelona, Bergamo, Berlin, Birmingham, Bologna, Bournemouth (begins 1 April 2025),[29] Bristol,[30] Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Leeds/Bradford, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Madrid, Manchester, Memmingen, Naples, Newcastle upon Tyne, Pisa, Santiago de Compostela,[31] Seville, Shannon, Vienna, Weeze
Seasonal: Cork,[32][33] Kraków,[34] Liverpool,[35] Milan–Malpensa,[36] Rome–Fiumicino
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal charter: Copenhagen,[37] Oslo[38]
Smartwings Brno, Budapest, Katowice, Prague, Warsaw–Chopin[39]
Sunclass Airlines Seasonal charter: Stockholm–Arlanda
Sundair[40] Berlin, Bremen, Dresden, Münster/Osnabrück[41]
TAP Air Portugal Lisbon[42]
Transavia Amsterdam
Seasonal: Nantes, Paris–Orly
TUI Airways Birmingham, Bristol, London–Gatwick, Manchester
TUI fly Belgium Brussels[43]
TUI fly Deutschland Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart
TUI fly Netherlands Amsterdam,[44] Rotterdam
Volotea Asturias, Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Toulouse
Seasonal: Lille[45]
Vueling Barcelona,[46] Bilbao, Málaga, Paris–Orly,[47] Santiago de Compostela, Seville
Wizz Air Seasonal: Katowice, Warsaw–Chopin[48]

Statistics

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Passengers Aircraft movements Cargo (tonnes)
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
2015 5,027,415 39,307 937
2016 5,676,323 45,456 945
2017 6,049,291 48,216 946
2018 6,118,893 51,541 874
2019 5,635,417 47.223 735
Source: Aena Statistics[1]

Busiest routes

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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[49]
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[49]

Car Rental Companies

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Several car rental companies authorized by AENA operate at Fuerteventura Airport: AutoReisen,[50] TopCar,[51] Cicar, Hertz, Goldcar-InterRent, Europcar, Avis, Payless and Sixt. All of these companies are located in the arrivals hall for international and domestic flights. There are other car rental companies operating outside the airport, but they are not authorized by AENA.[52]

* Updated as of June 2024.

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