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 (3.1 mi) southwest 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 2016.
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.
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 Las Palmas-Fuerteventura-Lanzarote.[]
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.[]
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 attend around five million passengers a year and manage around 3,100 passengers per hour during rush-hour periods.
Airlines | Destinations |
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Aer Lingus | Dublin |
Air Europa | Asturias, Barcelona, Bilbao, Málaga, Madrid, Santiago de Compostela |
Air Europa Express | Gran Canaria |
AlbaStar | Seasonal charter: Milan–Malpensa |
ASL Airlines France | Seasonal charter: Brest, Nantes, Paris–Charles de Gaulle |
Atlantic Airways | Billund |
Austrian Airlines | Seasonal: Vienna |
Binter Canarias | Gran Canaria, La Palma, Tenerife–North |
Brussels Airlines | Brussels |
CanaryFly | Gran Canaria, Tenerife–North |
Condor | Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Stuttgart |
Corendon Airlines Europe | Cologne/Bonn, Münster/Osnabrück, Nuremberg (begins 29 September 2019) |
Corendon Dutch Airlines | Amsterdam |
easyJet | Berlin–Tegel, Bristol, Liverpool, London–Gatwick Seasonal: Amsterdam, Belfast–International, Hamburg, Lyon, Milan–Malpensa, Paris–Charles de Gaulle |
easyJet Switzerland | Basel/Mulhouse Seasonal: Geneva |
Edelweiss Air | Zürich |
Eurowings | Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Munich, Nuremberg, Salzburg, Vienna |
Enter Air | Warsaw–Chopin Seasonal charter: Gdańsk, Katowice, Poznań, Wrocław |
Finnair | Seasonal: Helsinki |
Iberia Express | Madrid |
Iberia Regional | Seasonal: Seville, Valencia |
Jet Time | Seasonal charter: Billund, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Örebro |
Jet2.com | Belfast–International, Birmingham, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne |
Level | Amsterdam |
Lauda | Seasonal: Düsseldorf |
Lufthansa | Seasonal: Munich |
Luxair | Luxembourg |
Neos | Bologna, Milan–Malpensa, Rome–Fiumicino, Verona |
Norwegian Air Shuttle | Copenhagen (begins 28 October 2019), Stockholm–Arlanda |
Novair | Billund, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Stockholm–Arlanda Seasonal: Gothenburg, Karlstad, Malmö, Oslo–Gardermoen, Stavanger, Stockholm–Arlanda, Växjö |
Privilege Style | Lisbon, Porto |
Ryanair | Barcelona, Bergamo, Berlin–Schönefeld, Berlin–Tegel,
Birmingham, Bologna (begins 3 November 2019), Bremen, Charleroi,
Dublin, Düsseldorf, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow–Prestwick,
Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London–Stansted, Madrid, Manchester,
Pisa, Shannon, Seville, Stuttgart (begins 29 October 2019),
Warsaw–Modlin, Weeze Seasonal: London–Luton |
Scandinavian Airlines | Billund, Copenhagen, Luleå, Stockholm–Arlanda |
SmartLynx Airlines | Seasonal charter: Riga |
Smartlynx Airlines Estonia | Seasonal charter: Tallinn |
Smartwings | Brno, Ostrava, Prague, Vilnius |
Smartwings Poland |
Seasonal: Warsaw–Chopin Seasonal charter: Gdańsk, Katowice, Kraków, Łódź, Lublin, Poznań, Wrocław |
Sundair | Seasonal charter: Berlin-Tegel, Kassel |
Thomas Cook Airlines | Birmingham, East Midlands, London–Gatwick, Manchester,
Newcastle upon Tyne Seasonal: Aberdeen, Belfast–International, Bristol, Glasgow |
Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia | Seasonal charter: Billund, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Stockholm–Arlanda |
Transavia | Amsterdam |
Transavia France | Seasonal: Paris–Orly (begins 2 November 2019) |
TUI Airways | Birmingham, East Midlands, London–Gatwick, Manchester Seasonal: Bristol |
TUI fly Belgium | Brussels, Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly, Strasbourg, Toulouse |
TUI fly Deutschland | Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin–Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Munich, Nuremberg, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Saarbrücken, Stuttgart |
TUI fly Netherlands | Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Rotterdam |
TUI fly Nordic | Seasonal charter: Stockholm–Arlanda |
Volotea | Bordeaux, Marseille, Nantes, Toulouse |
Vueling | Barcelona, Bilbao, Málaga, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Valencia |
White Airways | Lisbon, Lyon, Nantes, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Porto |
Wizz Air | Katowice |
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Updated: 16 January 2019. 2018 data Provisional. |
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 |
Source: Aena Statistics |
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