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Tenerife North Airport (IATA: TFN, ICAO: GCXO) is located 11 km by road from Santa Cruz and is one of two international airports on the island. TFN is an inter-island hub, connecting all six Canary Islands, and offers connections to the Spanish Peninsula ,Europe,and South America
The route between Tenerife North and Gran Canaria is the busiest with an average 40 flights per day.
In the 1977 Tenerife disaster, a PanAm and a KLM Boeing 747 collided on the runway after a KLM plane started to take off without permission from the control tower, killing 583 people - the worst aircraft accident in history. The dense fog that regularly plagues the airport played a major role in this disaster, and since then a second airport, Tenerife Reina Sofía has been built in the south at a lower altitude (where the weather is much more ideal for airport operations). Most airlines have moved their flights to this airport and as a result Los Rodeos is now much quieter than it was before the disaster.
Regular Traffic
Air Europa (Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid, Sevilla) Binter Canarias (El Hierro, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, La Gomera, Lanzarote, La Palma) British Airways British Airways operated by GB Airways (London-Gatwick) Thomsonfly Finnair (Helsinki) Iberia (Barcelona, Madrid, Málaga, Sevilla, Valencia) Islas Airways (Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, La Palma) Livingston Airlines (Milan-Malpensa) LTU International (Düsseldorf) Ryanair (Dublin, Girona) Santa Barbara Airlines (Caracas) Spanair (Barcelona, Madrid)