Tenerife Norte Airport

About the Tenerife

Tenerife is the biggest island of the archipelago. There are varied landscapes: a mountain range with the mighty volcanic crater Cañadas del Teide, with a diameter of 20 kilometers, and the 3.718 meters high Teide in its center; extremely fertile valleys with cultures of bananas and tomatoes; and a seaside offering as well beautiful steep coasts as wide beaches of fine sand.

About Tenerife Norte Airport

Tenerife Norte airport is located to the north of the Island, in the municipality of San Cristobal de la Laguna, the airport is just 10 kilometres from the capital (Santa Cruz de Tenerife).

Traffic is mainly of domestic nature, with over 50 per cent of these domesting flights being connecting flights to the other islands in the archipelago: Gran Canaria, La Palma, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, El Hierro and La Gomera. In addition, there are scheduled domestic flights to other airports in the rest of Spain, such as Madrid-Barajas, Barcelona, Seville and Bilbao.

During 2005 the airport handled 3,754,333 passengers, 60,229 operations and 22,161 tonnes of cargo.

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