Fuerteventura Airport
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
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