Tenerife-South Airport

Tenerife South Airport (IATA: TFS, ICAO: GCTS), previously known as Tenerife South-Reina Sofia Airport, is one of two located on the island of Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands (the second one being Tenerife-North Airport). The airport is the busiest of the two Tenerife airports.

The airport is located in the municipality of Granadilla de Abona and was inaugurated on 6 November 1978, by Queen Sofía of Spain, to whom the airport is dedicated; by the end of its first year, 1 million passengers had passed through its doors.

Tenerife South handled over 8.5 million passengers in 2012. Combined with Tenerife-North Airport, the island gathers the highest passenger movement of all the Canary Islands, with 12,248,673 passengers, surpassing La Gomera Airport.