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 (3.1 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.

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 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.[]

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 attend around five million passengers a year and manage around 3,100 passengers per hour during rush-hour periods.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
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

Statistics

Fuerteventura Airport Passenger Totals 2000-2018 (millions)
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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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Timothy M
27 December 2017
You can sit outdoors while waiting for your flight to board! Buying a bottle of water at one of the shops can get very expensive, vending machines are situated near the gates and a lot cheaper.
TamaRa Tea™
5 August 2012
Quite big airport for such a "small" island. // Duty free is expensive tho... Ryanair staff complicating for 1kg too much, unless like in Italy, they let you trough.
Stef Mattana
25 November 2017
Bit crowded near the outdoor place. Explore the rest of the airport for more peace and quiet, and less crowded toilets. Food is utterly overpriced!
Pavlína Glosová
8 July 2023
Very airy, spacious departure lounges. We were quick through security & border controls, everyone was friendly. You can find good deals at duty free. The outdoor terrace is fantastic!
Eli Rguez
23 February 2012
Si acabas de llegar a Fuerteventura y quieres llevarte un buen queso vete a la Quesería la Montañeta, en Casillas del Ángel. Te sorprenderás con su sabor!!
Jan Kr
28 October 2014
Leckeres deutsches Cafe/Restaurant am westlichen Ende des Terminals (am besten von außen zu erreichen)
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