Tenerife

Airports

Tenerife has 2 airports the main is in the South, Sur Reina Sofia Airport and then there is Los Rodeos Airport in the North.

Los Rodeos Airport had only been used for domestic flights between the Canary islands up until October 2003 when BMI and British Airways starting flying there again.

The Sur Reina Aiport was inaugurated by Queen Sofia on 6 November 1978, by the end of its first year there was 1 million passengers that had passed through its doors. In 2003 it handled, 8,850,613 passengers, 62,493 flight operations and 8,775 tons of cargo. As a result the airport boasts operations by more than 150 airlines.