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Fuerteventura Airport
Fuerteventura Airport - "El Matorral", is located only 5 km from
Puerto del Rosario and 8 from Caleta de Fuste, one of the
resorts on the island.
Previously, the airport was in Tetir (1930) and it was only an
emergency landing, later moved to Tefía (1940), and then moved
closer to the capital, tobacconists (1952), with the peculiarity
in this Finally the single runway airport across the road, so in
the landings was due to stop the traffic of cars and trucks off
the road between Puerto del Rosario and Tetir.
Recently remodeled and expanded, this modern airport offers
travelers one of 1,200 parking spaces, a commercial offering
that includes pharmacy, restaurants, newspapers, gifts,
boutiques and drinks and snuff, as well as outdoor areas for
smokers.
It opened in 1969, with a flight from Las Palmas - Fuerteventura
- Lanzarote, and in 1973 when they start international flights
connecting the island with the airline Condor Dusseldorf.
The majority of airport traffic is with countries of the
European Union. Germany and the UK account for 74 percent of
international traffic. The national focus on three destinations:
Gran Canaria, Madrid-Barajas and Tenerife North. The airport is
also connected to other Spanish destinations such as Bilbao,
Santiago de Compostela and Seville.
In 2009, he received 3,738,492 passengers on 36,429 flight
operations recorded. Freight traffic reached 1913 tons.
In short, there are more than 36,000 flights to Fuerteventura
each year.
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Iberia |
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Ryanair |
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Finnair |
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Binter Canarias |
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Islas Airways |
Monarch Airlines |
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Air Nostrum |
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Thomas Cook |
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FUERTEVENTURA International Airport
Ctra. El matorral, S/N
35610 Fuerteventura - Las Palmas
Phone: 0034 902 404 704
Environment friendly
Fuerteventura Airport in December 2001 certified management
system (EMS) in accordance with International Standard ISO 14001
Desalination plant:
Water, on an island with scarce rainfall
as Fuerteventura is a very precious. The
airport has built a water treatment
plant of sea water with reverse osmosis
desalination with a capacity of two
hundred cubic meters per day, which
meets the needs of the airport grounds.
It also has built a reservoir of
drinking water for up to two thousand
cubic meters, sufficient in providing
for twenty days.
Wastewater:
The airport has a purifier which treats
one hundred percent of wastewater
generated. The plant has a treatment
plant with a planned capacity of 275
cubic meters per day, using the aeration
and decanting.
All purified water is stored and uses
them for later use in irrigation of
landscaped areas of urbanization. Thanks
to this store have been landscape over a
hundred thousand square meters of the
development of the airport, creating a
large green area in which they have
cultivated many species native to the
Canary Island flora.
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