Gran Canaria Airport

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Gran Canaria Airport

Aeropuerto de Gran Canaria
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Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner/Operator Aena
Serves Gran Canaria
Location Telde and Ingenio, Spain
Hub for
Focus city for
Elevation  AMSL 24 m / 78 ft
Coordinates 27°55′55″N015°23′12″W / 27.93194°N 15.38667°W / 27.93194; -15.38667
Website www.aena.es/en/gran-canaria.html
Map
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Airplane silhouette.svg
LPA
Location within the Canary Islands
Gran Canaria Airport
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
mft
03L/21R3,10010,171 Asphalt concrete
03R/21L3,10010,171Solibakke Asphalt concrete
Statistics (2021)
Passengers6,899,523
Passenger change 20-21Increase2.svg34.4%
Aircraft movements83,983
Movements change 20-21Increase2.svg24.8%
Cargo (tonnes)15,853
Cargo change 20-21Increase2.svg13.8%
Sources: Passenger Traffic, AENA [3]
Spanish AIP, AENA [4]

Gran Canaria Airport( IATA : LPA, ICAO : GCLP) (Spanish : Aeropuerto de Gran Canaria) is a passenger and freight airport on the island of Gran Canaria. It is an important airport within the Spanish air transport network (owned and managed by a public enterprise, AENA), as it holds the sixth position in terms of passengers, and fifth in terms of operations and cargo transported. It also ranks first of the Canary Islands in all three categories, although the island of Tenerife has higher passenger numbers overall if statistics from the two airports located on the island are combined. [5] [6] [7] The facility covers 553 hectares (1,370 acres) of land and contains two 3,100m runways. [8]

Contents

The airport is located in the eastern part of Gran Canaria on the Bay of Gando (Bahía de Gando), 19 km (12 mi) to the south [9] of Las Palmas, and 25 km (16 mi) from the popular tourist areas in the south. In 2014 it handled over 10.3 million passengers, ranking 1st in the Canary Islands and 5th in Spain by passenger traffic. [10] Gran Canaria Airport is an important hub for passengers travelling to West Africa (Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, Cape Verde, among others), and to the Atlantic Isles of Madeira and the Azores. It serves as base for Binter Canarias, Canaryfly, Ryanair, Norwegian Air Shuttle and Vueling. Other airlines use it as a base to operate charter flights to Cape Verde and Gambia (TUI fly Deutschland and TUI fly Nordic), but only in the winter.

History

In 1919, Frenchman Pierre George Latécoère was granted clearance from the French and Spanish governments to establish an airline route between Toulouse and Casablanca. This also included stopovers in Málaga, Alicante and Barcelona. The airport opened on 7 April 1930, after King Alfonso XIII signed a royal order announcing that the military air force installations on the Bay of Gando would become a civilian airfield. In its existence, the airport has become the largest gateway into the Canary Islands, as well as the largest in terms of passenger and cargo operations, although the island of Tenerife has higher passenger numbers overall between the two airports located on the island. [5] [6] [7]

In 1946, the old passenger terminal opened, which took two years to build. [11] In 1948, a runway was built, which was completed and fully tarmacked in 1957.[ citation needed ]

In 1963, improvements to the airport were made. This included new parking spaces, enlargement of the terminal and the provision of a visual approach slope indicator system. In 1964, a transmission station was built. In 1966 a new control tower was completed, replacing the old control tower that was constructed in 1946. [12] In 1970, work began on the current passenger terminal which opened in March 1973. During this time, a second runway was being built and this was completed in 1980. [13]

On 18 February 1988, Binter Canarias announced that the airline's main base was to be established at Gran Canaria. The base opened on 26 March 1989.[ citation needed ] In October 1991, the terminal was enlarged with improved facilities so it could handle more passengers.[ citation needed ]

In December 2010, low-cost carrier Ryanair announced the opening of 3 new bases on the Canary Islands. [14] In addition to Gran Canaria these include Lanzarote and Tenerife South. Ryanair presently operates 30 routes from Gran Canaria. The airport was an official alternative (emergency) landing site for the NASA Space Shuttle, before the ending of the Space Shuttle programme in July 2011.[ citation needed ]

As of 2011, there was a programme to expand the airport, extending the terminal and creating a new runway. [15] In 2015 this major renovation of Gran Canaria airport was completed. Among the improvements was increasing the number of baggage belts, 16 to 24, check-in counters from 96 to 132 and gates, up to 40. The new terminal area is now fully active, doubling the previous area. There is also a plan for the building[ when? ] of a new runway for the airport.[ citation needed ]

Terminal

The airport has one terminal which opened in March 1973. It was extended in October 1991 to increase passenger traffic. Despite being a building of historical interest, in 2013 the original passenger terminal building, opened in 1946, was demolished to make way for a further extension which opened in 2014. Although dramatically expanded over the years the airport remains a single terminal airport.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Gran Canaria Airport:

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Athens (begins 13 February 2025) [16]
Aer Lingus Dublin
airBaltic [17] [18] Seasonal: Aalborg, Bergen, Billund, Copenhagen, Oslo, Riga, Sandefjord, Tallinn, Tampere, Vilnius
Air Europa Madrid [19]
Air Nostrum Seasonal charter: Porto [20]
Atlantic Airways Seasonal: Vágar [21] [22]
Austrian Airlines Vienna [23]
Azores Airlines Funchal, Ponta Delgada
Binter Canarias A Coruña, Agadir, Asturias, Casablanca, Dakar–Diass, Dakhla, El Hierro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Granada, [24] Guelmim, [25] Laayoune, La Gomera, Lanzarote, La Palma, Madrid, [26] Murcia, Nouadhibou, [27] Nouakchott, Palma de Mallorca, Pamplona, Sal, San Sebastián, Santander, Tenerife–North, Tenerife–South, Vigo, Zaragoza
Seasonal: Essaouira, [28] Fès, [29] Florence, [29] Ibiza, [24] Jerez de la Frontera, [29] Lille, Menorca, Ponta Delgada, [29] Reus, Tangier, [28] Toulouse, Valladolid, [29] Venice
Braathens International Airways Seasonal charter: Aalborg, [30] Copenhagen [31] Gothenburg [32]
British Airways London–Gatwick [33]
Brussels Airlines Brussels [34]
CanaryFly Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, La Palma, Tenerife–North [35]
Chair Airlines Seasonal: Zürich [36]
Condor Düsseldorf, [37] Frankfurt, [38] Hamburg, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Stuttgart
Corendon Airlines Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hannover, Nuremberg
Corendon Dutch Airlines Amsterdam
Seasonal: Maastricht/Aachen [39]
DAT Seasonal charter: Aalborg, Aarhus, Billund, Copenhagen
Discover Airlines [40] Frankfurt, Munich
easyJet Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin, Bristol, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Manchester, Milan–Malpensa [41]
Seasonal: Amsterdam, [42] Belfast–International, [43] Birmingham (begins 2 May 2025), [44] Edinburgh (begins 7 December 2024), [45] Geneva, Glasgow, London–Southend (begins 1 May 2025), [46] [47] Naples [48]
Edelweiss Air Zürich
Enter Air Seasonal charter: Katowice, [49] Warsaw–Chopin
Eurowings Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg
Seasonal: Berlin, Graz, [50] Hannover, [50] Nuremberg, [50] Salzburg, Stuttgart
Finnair Helsinki [51]
Freebird Airlines Europe Seasonal charter: Paderborn/Lippstadt [52]
Iberia Madrid [53]
Seasonal: Alicante, Badajoz, [54] Córdoba, [55] León, [56] Melilla, Santiago de Compostela, Valencia, Valladolid, Vigo, Zaragoza [57]
Iberia Express Madrid [58]
Icelandair Seasonal: Reykjavik–Keflavík [59]
Jet2.com Belfast–International, Birmingham, Bournemouth (begins 6 April 2025), [60] Bristol, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, [61] London–Luton (begins 4 April 2025), [62] London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Jettime Seasonal charter: Örebro
Lufthansa Seasonal: Munich [63]
Luxair Luxembourg [64]
Marabu Munich
Seasonal: Hamburg
Mauritania Airlines Nouadhibou, Nouakchott
Neos Milan–Malpensa, Verona
Norwegian Air Shuttle [65] Copenhagen, Oslo
Seasonal: Bergen, [66] Gothenburg, [67] Sandefjord, [68] Stavanger, Stockholm–Arlanda, [69] Trondheim
Seasonal charter: Ålesund, [70] Kalmar, [71] Karlstad [72]
Play Seasonal: Reykjavík–Keflavík [73]
Royal Air Maroc Laayoune
Royal Air Maroc Express Casablanca
Ryanair Bergamo, Berlin, Birmingham, Bologna, Bournemouth, Bristol, Budapest, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Cork, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Kraków, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Madrid, Málaga, Manchester, Marrakesh, Milan–Malpensa, Newcastle upon Tyne, Palma de Mallorca, Rome–Fiumicino, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Valencia, Vienna
Seasonal: Barcelona, Glasgow–Prestwick, Hahn, [74] Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, [75] [76] Memmingen, Pisa, Porto, [77] Shannon, Treviso [78]
Scandinavian Airlines Oslo [79]
Seasonal: Copenhagen, [79] Stockholm–Arlanda [79]
Seasonal charter: Bergen, [79] Billund, Gothenburg, Haugesund, Kalmar, Kristiansand, [80] Molde, [80] Stavanger, Trondheim
Smartwings Prague
Seasonal charter: Lübeck, [81] Tromsø [82]
Sunclass Airlines [83] [84] [85] [86] Charter: Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda
Seasonal charter: Aalborg, Bergen, Billund, Bodø, Gothenburg, Harstad/Narvik, Helsinki, Jönköping, Karlstad, Kuopio, Luleå, Malmö, Örebro, Stavanger, Sandefjord, Tromsø, Trondheim, Turku, Umeå, Vaasa
Sundair Seasonal: Berlin, Bremen, Dresden, Kassel [87]
TAP Air Portugal Lisbon
Transavia Amsterdam, Eindhoven, [88] Paris–Orly, [89] Rotterdam/The Hague
TUI Airways Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Dublin, [90] East Midlands, [91] Glasgow, London–Gatwick, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Seasonal: Bournemouth, Exeter
TUI fly Belgium Brussels, [92] Liège, Ostend/Bruges
Seasonal: Antwerp [93]
TUI fly Deutschland Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart
TUI fly Netherlands Amsterdam, [94] Eindhoven, Groningen
TUI fly Nordic [95] [80] [96] Charter: Gothenburg, Stockholm–Arlanda
Seasonal charter: Luleå, Malmö, Norrköping, [97] Umeå, Växjö
Volotea Asturias, Lyon, Nantes
Seasonal: Bilbao, [98] Toulouse
Vueling Alicante, Asturias, Barcelona, [99] Bilbao, Granada, Málaga, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Valencia
Seasonal: London–Gatwick [100]
Wizz Air Rome–Fiumicino (begins 1 February 2025) [101] [102]
Seasonal: Budapest [103]

Statistics

Traffic figures

Annual passenger traffic at LPA airport. See Wikidata query.
PassengersAircraft movementsCargo (tonnes)
20009,376,64098,06343,706
20019,332,13293,29140,860
20029,009,75693,80339,638
20039,181,22999,71240,050
20049,467,494104,65940,934
20059,827,157110,74840,389
200610,286,726114,94938,360
200710,354,903114,35537,491
200810,212,123116,25233,695
20099,155,665101,55725,994
20109,486,035103,08724,528
201110,538,829111,27123,679
20129,892,067100,39320,601
20139,770,25395,48318,781
201410,315,732102,21119,821
201510,627,182100,41718,800
201612,093,645111,99618,588
201713,092,117118,55418,045
201813,573,304131,02719,174
201913,261,228126,45119,739
20205,134,25267,28013,926
20216,899,52383,98315,853
202212,417,699119,53015,830
Source: Aena Statistics [3]

Busiest routes

Busiest european routes from LPA (2023)
RankDestinationPassengersChange 2022 / 23
1Flag of Germany.svg Düsseldorf 354,653Increase2.svg 15%
2Flag of the Netherlands.svg Amsterdam 347,277Decrease2.svg 5%
3Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Manchester 311,392Increase2.svg 6%
4Flag of Germany.svg Frankfurt 300,620Increase2.svg 17%
5Flag of Norway.svg Oslo 296,887Increase2.svg 19%
6Flag of the United Kingdom.svg London-Gatwick 283,531Increase2.svg 23%
7Flag of the United Kingdom.svg London-Stansted 235,524Increase2.svg 24%
8Flag of Sweden.svg Stockholm-Arlanda 225,175Increase2.svg 20%
9Flag of Denmark.svg Copenhagen 225,032Increase2.svg 2%
10Flag of Ireland.svg Dublin 189,914Increase2.svg 31%
11Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Birmingham 179,309Increase2.svg 13%
12Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Bristol 171,246Increase2.svg 28%
13Flag of Finland.svg Helsinki 164,262Increase2.svg 17%
14Flag of Germany.svg Hamburg 154,240Increase2.svg 24%
15Flag of Germany.svg Munich 148,202Increase2.svg 9%
16Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Zurich 140,754Increase2.svg 36%
17Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Brussels 135,714Increase2.svg 3%
18Flag of Germany.svg Berlin 132,289Increase2.svg 4%
19Flag of Germany.svg Cologne/Bonn 123,114Decrease2.svg 14%
20Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Newcastle 122,252Increase2.svg 21%
Source: Estadísticas de tráfico aereo [104]
Busiest intercontinental routes from LPA (2023)
RankDestinationPassengersChange 2022 / 23
1Flag of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.svg Laayoune 47,375Increase2.svg 13%
2Flag of Morocco.svg Marrakech 44,745Increase2.svg 40%
3Flag of Mauritania.svg Nouakchott 37,801Increase2.svg 29%
4Flag of Senegal.svg Dakar-Diass 20,433Increase2.svg 34%
5Flag of Cape Verde.svg Sal 13,689Increase2.svg 69%
6Flag of Morocco.svg Casablanca 10,593Increase2.svg 18%
7Flag of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.svg Dakhla 7,292Increase2.svg 119%
8Flag of Mauritania.svg Nouadhibou 6,963Decrease2.svg 49%
9Flag of Cape Verde.svg Boa Vista 6,909Increase2.svg 25%
10Flag of Morocco.svg Guelmim 4,995Decrease2.svg 14%
Source: Estadísticas de tráfico aereo [104]
Busiest domestic routes from LPA (2023)
RankDestinationPassengersChange 2022 / 23
1Flag of the Community of Madrid.svg Madrid 1,606,855Increase2.svg 12%
2Flag of the Canary Islands.svg Tenerife-North 901,701Increase2.svg 14%
3Flag of the Canary Islands.svg Lanzarote 811,069Increase2.svg 9%
4Flag of the Canary Islands.svg Fuerteventura 659,647Increase2.svg 10%
5Flag of Catalonia.svg Barcelona 508,117Increase2.svg 8%
6Flag of Andalucia.svg Seville 278,699Increase2.svg 7%
7Flag of Andalucia.svg Málaga 242,673Increase2.svg 22%
8Flag of the Canary Islands.svg La Palma 229,694Increase2.svg 7%
9Flag of the Canary Islands.svg Tenerife-South 221,266Increase2.svg 17%
10Flag of Galicia.svg Santiago de Compostela 165,691Steady2.svg 0%
11Flag of the Basque Country.svg Bilbao 133,086Increase2.svg 7%
12Flag of the Valencian Community (2x3).svg Valencia 100,997Increase2.svg 4%
13Flag of Asturias.svg Asturias 94,078Increase2.svg 25%
14Flag of the Balearic Islands.svg Palma de Mallorca 78,719Increase2.svg 15%
15Flag of the Canary Islands.svg El Hierro 64,983Increase2.svg 15%
16Flag of the Canary Islands.svg La Gomera 55,572Increase2.svg 59%
17Flag of Andalucia.svg Granada 53,898Increase2.svg 58%
18Flag of Galicia.svg Vigo 44,788Increase2.svg 19%
19Flag of the Valencian Community (2x3).svg Alicante 41,241Decrease2.svg 9%
20Bandera de Navarra.svg Pamplona 33,490Increase2.svg 20%
Source: Estadísticas de tráfico aereo [104]

Ground transportation

The airport can be reached by several island roads from all points in the island. Bus services are provided by Global with their routes 5, 60, 66, 90 and 91. [105] [ better source needed ]. There are also special bus services from most towns in Gran Canaria, but access by taxi is usual.[ citation needed ]

Gran Canaria's main motorway GC1 runs past the airport providing transport links to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the North and to the tourist resorts in the South.

Plans have existed for several years to construct a rail link connecting the airport to Las Palmas and Maspalomas. As of 2018, the Tren de Gran Canaria scheme was estimated to be underfunded by €1,500 million. [106]

Military use

Two F-18s of the Spanish Air Force taking off from Gando Air Base, which shares space with the airport Gando F-18 1.jpg
Two F-18s of the Spanish Air Force taking off from Gando Air Base, which shares space with the airport

There is an airbase of the Spanish Air and Space Force to the east of the runways. Beyond several hangars opposite to the passenger terminal, the Gando Air Base (Base Aérea de Gando) contains ten shelters situated on the southern end of the eastern runway. They harbor the Ala 46 with F/A-18 Hornets, CASA 212 and the Eurocopter AS 532 of SAR. [107] Ala 46 or 46 Wing, composed of 462 and 802 fighter squadron, defends the Spanish airspace around the Canary Islands. It is one of the biggest and most important air bases of the Spanish Air and Space Force and is unique for the wide variety of aircraft which it operates.

Military activity was most intense during the mid-1970s, at the time of the crisis of decolonisation of Western Sahara and its occupation by Morocco. Military crises in Western Africa, like the 2013 Mali intervention by France, made Gando Air Base the main air platform for operations in Western Africa area by NATO. In 2006 Spain proposed Gando Air Base as headquarters for the newly created US Africa Command (AFRICOM), but the AFRICOM HQ was ultimately based in Stuttgart (Germany).

The Canary Islands Air Command (Mando Aéreo de CanariasMACAN) is based in the city of Las Palmas. Canary Islands Air Command is the only territorial general Air Command Air Force in Spain; its mission is the maintenance, preparation and command of air units located in the Canary archipelago. [108] [109] Any Spanish military airplane that lands in the Canary Islands is immediately put at the disposal of the Canary Islands Air Command, who can retain it and use it as long as necessary for missions within the islands. This happens sometimes with heavy military transport, antisubmarine warfare and early warning airplanes; the islands do not have these on a permanent basis. Once the plane is released by the Canary Islands Air Command, it can leave the Canary Islands and reverts to the Air Force Commands of mainland Spain.

The deployment base of Gando Air Base is the Lanzarote Military Airfield (Aeródromo Militar de Lanzarote). Lanzarote Military Airfield has permanently its own Air Force troops platoons and the radar for the air defence (the EVA 22, which covers the Eastern Canary Islands and the maritime area up to the Sahara), but it has no permanently based military planes, using the ones from Gando.

Other facilities

Canaryfly has its head office in Hangar L. [110] Binter Canarias also has its head office on the airport grounds. [111]

MPAIAC bombing and Tenerife disaster

At 1:15 PM on 27 March 1977, a bomb planted by the Movement for the Independence and Autonomy of the Canaries Archipelago (MPAIAC) exploded in a florist's shop on the terminal concourse. Fifteen minutes of warning was given to the airport authorities, [112] who started to evacuate the building; the inside of the terminal was damaged and eight people were injured, one seriously. [113]

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