Fuerteventura Airport

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]

Fuerteventura Airport Aeropuerto de Fuerteventura
IATA: FUE ICAO: GCFV
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner/Operator	Aena
Serves	Fuerteventura
Location	Puerto del Rosario
Elevation AMSL	25 m / 83 ft
Coordinates	28°27′10″N 013°51′50″W
Website	aena.es
Map
FUE Location of airport in Canary Islands Show map of Canary Islands FUE FUE (Fuerteventura) Show map of Fuerteventura FUE FUE (Spain, Canary Islands) Show map of Spain, Canary Islands
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 01/19 3,406 11,175 Asphalt
Statistics (2022)
Passengers 5,641,500 Passenger change 21-22 81.2% Aircraft Movements 48,690 Movements change 21-22 44.9%
Sources: Passenger Traffic, AENA[1] Spanish AIP, ENAIRE[2]

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

Early years

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

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:

Airlines	Destinations
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), London–Stansted, Manchester,[23] Newcastle upon Tyne
Lufthansa	Seasonal: Munich[24]
Luxair	Luxembourg[25]
Marabu	Cologne/Bonn[26] Seasonal: Munich
Neos	Bologna, Milan–Malpensa, Rome–Fiumicino, Verona
Play	Seasonal: Reykjavík–Keflavík[27]
Ryanair	Barcelona, Bergamo, Berlin, Birmingham, Bologna, Bristol,[28] Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Leeds/Bradford, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Madrid, Manchester, Memmingen, Naples, Newcastle upon Tyne, Pisa, Santiago de Compostela,[29] Seville, Shannon, Vienna, Weeze Seasonal: Cork,[30][31] Kraków,[32] Liverpool,[33] Milan–Malpensa,[34] Rome–Fiumicino
Scandinavian Airlines	Seasonal charter: Copenhagen,[35] Oslo-Gardermoen[36]
Smartwings	Brno, Budapest, Katowice, Prague, Warsaw–Chopin[37]
Sunclass Airlines	Seasonal charter: Stockholm-Arlanda
Sundair[38]	Berlin, Bremen, Dresden, Münster/Osnabrück[39]
TAP Air Portugal	Lisbon[40]
Transavia	Amsterdam Seasonal: Nantes, Paris–Orly
TUI Airways	Birmingham, Bristol, London–Gatwick, Manchester
TUI fly Belgium	Brussels[41]
TUI fly Deutschland	Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart
TUI fly Netherlands	Amsterdam,[42] Rotterdam
Volotea	Asturias, Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Toulouse Seasonal: Lille[43]
Vueling	Barcelona,[44] Bilbao, Málaga, Paris–Orly,[45] Santiago de Compostela, Seville
Wizz Air	Seasonal: Katowice, Warsaw–Chopin[46]

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at FUE airport. See Wikidata query.

	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]

Car Rental Companies

Several car rental companies authorized by AENA operate at Fuerteventura Airport: AutoReisen,^[47] TopCar,^[48] 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.^[49]

* Updated as of June 2024.

References

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External links

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