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title: "TFS — Tenerife Sur Airport, Tenerife · Orbit"
description: "Tenerife Sur Airport (TFS/GCTS) serves Tenerife, Spain. Opened 1978, named after Queen Sofía of Spain, 10.8 million passengers in 2022, 57 km from Santa Cruz de Tenerife."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/tfs
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Tenerife · Spain · Africa

# TFS — Tenerife Sur

Tenerife Sur Airport serves Tenerife, Spain, 57 km from the centre of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and sits at 28.0°N, 16.6°W. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**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 after **Queen Sofía of Spain** — queen consort of Spain from 1975 to 2014

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife%E2%80%93South%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q821984)

## 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)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=28.04450,-16.57250)

**Website**
[aena.es ↗](https://www.aena.es/en/tenerife-sur.html)

## 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.

TFN Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna 54 km

## Distances from TFS

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.

| To                                                   |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ---------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-tfs) | LHR | 2,932 km | 4h 09m    |

[Distance from TFS to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=TFS&to=LHR) [Map a trip from TFS →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=TFS-LHR)

## Where these facts come from

The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/) (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/) (CC0); the city centre from [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/) (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.

What you won’t find: terminal maps, airline lists, shops or live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that guessed at those would be worse than one that leaves them out.

[Measure TFS to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

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