Fuerteventura Airport , also known as El Matorral Airport, is an airport serving the Spanish island of Fuerteventura. It is situated in El Matorral, 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 2019.
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 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.
Airlines and destinations
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Fuerteventura Airport:
Statistics
Year Passengers Aircraft movements Cargo(tonnes)20003,467,614 31,663 4,48720013,577,638 30,471 3,83720023,620,576 32,520 3,71220033,919,224 39,695 3,69420043,917,109 39,865 3,63920054,071,875 40,415 3,17820064,458,711 44,044 3,19620074,629,877 44,870 3,12720084,492,003 44,552 2,72220093,738,492 36,429 1,91320104,173,686 39,437 1,71020114,948,018 44,551 1,55720124,399,023 37,772 1,21420134,259,341 35,498 1,02220144,764,632 40,066 97820155,027,415 39,307 93720165,676,323 45,456 94520176,049,291 48,216 94620186,118,893 51,541 8742019 5,635,417 47.223 735 Source: Aena Statistics
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
+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
References
External links
Official website