El Hierro Airport



El Hierro Airport (IATA: VDE, ICAO: GCHI) is an airport located 9 km (5.6 mi) northeast of Valverde. It is the only existing airport on the Island of El Hierro. It was inaugurated on December 1972 and it is called Aeropuerto de los Cangrejos.

However, in spite of its size and its limited timetable, it was the airport which had the most increased in number of passengers and merchandise in the Canary Islands in the year 2007. The airport has no runway, only one helipad.

The air traffic is national, and the flights are normally from/to Tenerife-North and Arena Dorada. In 2011, the airport posted 170.225 passengers, 4.674 operations and 135 tons of merchandise