Airport in Puerto del Rosario
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]
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 ,[ 9] La Palma ,[ 10] Tenerife–North [ 9] Seasonal: Funchal [ 11]
Braathens International Airways Seasonal charter: Copenhagen ,[ 12] Gothenburg [ 12] Stockholm–Arlanda [ 12]
British Airways Seasonal: London–Gatwick [ 13] [ 14]
Brussels Airlines Brussels [ 15]
CanaryFly Gran Canaria ,[ 9] Tenerife–North [ 9]
Chair Airlines Seasonal: Zürich
Condor Düsseldorf , Frankfurt , Hamburg , Leipzig/Halle , Munich , Stuttgart Seasonal: Nuremberg [ 16]
Corendon Airlines Cologne/Bonn ,[ 17] Düsseldorf ,[ 17] Hannover ,[ 17] Nuremberg
Discover Airlines Frankfurt , Munich [ 18]
easyJet Basel/Mulhouse , Berlin , Birmingham , Bristol , Liverpool (begins 19 February 2025),[ 19] London–Gatwick , London–Luton , Manchester ,[ 20] Milan–Malpensa , Paris–Charles de Gaulle [ 19] Seasonal: Amsterdam , Belfast–International ,[ 19] Edinburgh , Glasgow [ 19]
Edelweiss Air Zürich
Eurowings Cologne/Bonn ,[ 21] Düsseldorf ,[ 22] Hamburg [ 23] Seasonal: Berlin ,[ 24] Nuremberg ,[ 25] Stuttgart [ 26]
Enter Air Katowice , Warsaw–Chopin , Poznan , Wrocław Seasonal charter: Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden
Finnair Seasonal charter: Helsinki [ 27]
Freebird Airlines Seasonal charter: Cologne/Bonn , Leipzig/Halle , Paderborn/Lippstadt
Iberia Madrid [ 28] Seasonal: Seville , Valencia
Iberia Express Madrid
Jet2.com Belfast–International , Birmingham , Bournemouth (begins 2 April 2025),[ 29] Bristol , East Midlands , Edinburgh , Glasgow , Leeds/Bradford , Liverpool , London–Luton (begins 6 April 2025),[ 30] London–Stansted , Manchester ,[ 31] Newcastle upon Tyne
Lufthansa Seasonal: Munich [ 32]
Luxair Luxembourg [ 33]
Marabu Cologne/Bonn [ 34] Seasonal: Munich
Neos Bologna , Milan–Malpensa , Rome–Fiumicino , Verona
Play Seasonal: Reykjavík–Keflavík [ 35]
Ryanair Barcelona , Bergamo , Berlin , Birmingham , Bologna , Bournemouth (begins 1 April 2025),[ 36] Bristol ,[ 37] Charleroi , Cologne/Bonn , Cork ,[ 38] [ 39] Dublin , East Midlands , Edinburgh , Kraków ,[ 40] Leeds/Bradford , London–Luton , London–Stansted , Madrid , Manchester , Newcastle upon Tyne , Pisa , Santiago de Compostela ,[ 41] Seville , Shannon , Vienna , Weeze Seasonal: Liverpool ,[ 42] Milan–Malpensa ,[ 43] Rome–Fiumicino
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal charter: Copenhagen ,[ 44] Oslo [ 45]
Smartwings Brno ,[ 46] Katowice , Prague ,[ 47] Warsaw–Chopin [ 48] Seasonal charter: Budapest [ 49]
Sunclass Airlines Seasonal charter: Stockholm–Arlanda
Sundair [ 50] Berlin , Bremen , Dresden , Münster/Osnabrück [ 51]
TAP Air Portugal Lisbon [ 52] [ 53]
Transavia Amsterdam Seasonal: Nantes , Paris–Orly
TUI Airways Birmingham , Bristol , Cardiff (begins 20 December 2025),[ 54] London–Gatwick , Manchester
TUI fly Belgium Brussels [ 55]
TUI fly Deutschland Düsseldorf , Frankfurt , Hannover , Munich , Stuttgart
TUI fly Netherlands Amsterdam ,[ 56] Rotterdam
Volotea Asturias , Bordeaux , Lyon , Marseille , Nantes , Toulouse Seasonal: Lille [ 57]
Vueling Barcelona ,[ 58] Bilbao ,[ 59] Málaga ,[ 59] Paris–Orly ,[ 60] [ 59] Santiago de Compostela ,[ 59] Seville [ 59]
Wizz Air Seasonal: Katowice , Warsaw–Chopin [ 61]
Statistics
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 [ 62]
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 [ 62]
Car Rental Companies
Several car rental companies authorized by AENA operate at Fuerteventura Airport: AutoReisen,[ 63] TopCar,[ 64] 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.[ 65]
* Updated as of June 2024.
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External links
Media related to Fuerteventura Airport at Wikimedia Commons
International
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