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
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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.^{[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.^{[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]
Air Nostrum	Seasonal charter: Porto[7]
AlbaStar	Seasonal: Bergamo[citation needed]
Austrian Airlines	Seasonal: Vienna[citation needed]
Binter Canarias	Gran Canaria,[8] La Palma,[9] Tenerife–North[8] Seasonal: Funchal[10]
Braathens International Airways	Seasonal charter: Copenhagen,[11] Gothenburg[11] Stockholm–Arlanda[11]
British Airways	Seasonal: London–Gatwick[12]
Brussels Airlines	Brussels[13]
CanaryFly	Gran Canaria,[8] Tenerife–North[8]
Chair Airlines	Seasonal: Zürich[citation needed]
Condor	Düsseldorf,[14] Frankfurt,[15] Hamburg,[14] Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Stuttgart[16] Seasonal: Nuremberg[17]
Corendon Airlines	Cologne/Bonn,[18] Düsseldorf,[18] Hannover,[18] Nuremberg
Discover Airlines	Frankfurt,[19] Munich[20][21]
easyJet	Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin, Birmingham,[22] Bristol,[23] Liverpool,[24] London–Gatwick,[23] London–Luton,[25] Manchester,[26] Milan–Malpensa,[27] Paris–Charles de Gaulle[24] Seasonal: Amsterdam,[citation needed] Belfast–International,[24] Edinburgh,[citation needed] Glasgow,[24] Naples (begins 25 June 2025)[28]
Edelweiss Air	Zürich[29]
Eurowings	Cologne/Bonn,[30] Düsseldorf,[31] Hamburg[31] Seasonal: Berlin,[32] Nuremberg,[33] Prague (begins 29 October 2025),[34] Stuttgart[31]
Enter Air	Katowice, Warsaw–Chopin, Poznan, Wrocław Seasonal charter: Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden[citation needed]
Finnair	Seasonal charter: Helsinki[35]
Freebird Airlines	Seasonal charter: Cologne/Bonn,[citation needed] Leipzig/Halle,[citation needed] Paderborn/Lippstadt[citation needed]
Iberia	Madrid[36] Seasonal: Santiago de Compostela,[37] Seville,[citation needed] Valencia[citation needed]
Iberia Express	Madrid
Jet2.com	Belfast–International,[38] Birmingham,[39] Bournemouth,[40] Bristol,[41] East Midlands,[41] Edinburgh,[42] Glasgow,[43] Leeds/Bradford,[44] Liverpool,[45] London–Luton,[46][47] London–Stansted,[41] Manchester,[48] Newcastle upon Tyne[41]
Lufthansa	Seasonal: Munich[49][better source needed]
Luxair	Luxembourg[50]
Marabu	Cologne/Bonn[51] Seasonal: Munich[citation needed]
Neos	Bologna,[52] Milan–Malpensa,[53] Rome–Fiumicino,[54] Verona[55]
Play	Seasonal: Reykjavík–Keflavík[56]
Ryanair	Barcelona,[23] Bergamo,[23] Berlin, Birmingham,[23] Bologna,[23] Bournemouth,[57] Bristol,[58] Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn,[23] Cork,[59][60] Dublin,[23] East Midlands,[23] Edinburgh,[23] Kraków,[60] Leeds/Bradford,[23] London–Stansted,[23] Madrid,[23] Manchester,[23] Newcastle upon Tyne,[23] Pisa,[23] Santiago de Compostela,[61] Seville,[23] Shannon,[23] Vienna,[23] Weeze[23] Seasonal: Liverpool,[60] London–Luton,[23] Milan–Malpensa,[62] Rome–Fiumicino[citation needed]
Scandinavian Airlines	Seasonal charter: Copenhagen,[63] Oslo[64]
Smartwings	Brno,[65] Katowice, Prague,[66] Warsaw–Chopin[67] Seasonal charter: Budapest[68]
Sunclass Airlines	Seasonal charter: Stockholm–Arlanda[citation needed]
Sundair[69]	Berlin, Bremen, Dresden, Münster/Osnabrück[70]
TAP Air Portugal	Lisbon[71][72]
Transavia	Amsterdam[73] Seasonal: Nantes,[citation needed] Paris–Orly[citation needed]
TUI Airways	Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff (begins 20 December 2025),[citation needed] London–Gatwick, Manchester
TUI fly Belgium	Brussels[74]
TUI fly Deutschland	Düsseldorf,[75] Frankfurt,[76] Hannover,[77] Munich,[78] Stuttgart[79]
TUI fly Netherlands	Amsterdam,[80] Rotterdam[81]
Volotea	Asturias, Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Toulouse Seasonal: Lille[82]
Vueling	Barcelona,[83] Bilbao,[84] Málaga,[84] Paris–Orly,[85][84] Santiago de Compostela,[84] Seville[84]
Wizz Air	Seasonal: Katowice, Warsaw–Chopin[86]

Statistics

Year	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

Busiest international routes from FUE (2023)

Rank	Destination	Passengers	Change 2022 / 23
1	Düsseldorf	297,986	8%
2	Manchester	271,122	19%
3	Frankfurt	251,962	8%
4	London-Gatwick	191,602	20%
5	Hamburg	177,154	13%
6	London-Stansted	175,354	11%
7	Birmingham	160,573	9%
8	Munich	143,352	0%
9	Hannover	114,607	3%
10	Stuttgart	112,342	26%
11	Bristol	106,282	16%
12	Cologne/Bonn	101,001	20%
13	Amsterdam	100,214	3%
14	Edinburgh	98,319	20%
15	Dublin	97,116	51%
16	Berlin	95,869	2%
17	Leeds/Bradford	92,002	14%
18	Newcastle	78,437	17%
19	London-Luton	78,058	12%
20	Paris-Orly	77,268	19%
Source: Estadísticas de tráfico aereo[87]

Busiest domestic routes from FUE (2023)

Rank	Destination	Passengers	Change 2022 / 23
1	Gran Canaria	653,628	10%
2	Madrid	414,160	6%
3	Tenerife-North	323,889	7%
4	Barcelona	153,905	4%
5	Seville	79,477	10%
6	Santiago de Compostela	74,114	29%
7	Bilbao	39,769	11%
8	Valencia	20,241	6%
9	Málaga	18,615	8%
10	Asturias	10,577	8%
Source: Estadísticas de tráfico aereo[87]