- IATA
- TFS
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- GCTS
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1978
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 10.8M
- in 2022
History & name
Opened in 1978, Tenerife Sur Airport is named after Tenerife and Queen Sofía of Spain, queen consort of Spain from 1975 to 2014. ENAIRE operates its one runway of 3,200 m, 57 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and the airport handled 10.8 million passengers in 2022.
Named afterQueen Sofía of Spain — queen consort of Spain from 1975 to 2014
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Tenerife Sur Airport
- Serves
- Tenerife, Spain
- City centre
- 57 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife
- Opened
- 1978
- Operator
- ENAIRE
- Passengers
- 10.8 million in 2022
- Runways
- 1 runway, 3,200 m
- Elevation
- 209 ft (64 m)
- Website
- aena.es ↗
Where it sits
28.0°N, 16.6°W puts TFS in the northern hemisphere, 3,118 km from the equator and 6,889 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 323rd most northerly, which makes it the 339th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 28.0°S, 163.4°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is La Tontouta (NOU) in New Caledonia, still 727 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna (TFN), 54 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.
Distances from TFS
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | LHR | 2,932 km | 4h 09m |
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
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