# Fuerteventura Airport

Fuerteventura Airport (IATA: FUE, ICAO: GCFV), also known as El Matorral Airport, is an airport serving the Spanish island of Fuerteventura. It is situated in El Matorral, 5 km (3 mi) southwest of the capital city Puerto del Rosario. The airport has flight connections to over 80 destinations worldwide, and over 5.6 million passengers passed through it in 2019.
The airport has one terminal building with two floors. The ground floor has two sections; one section is for flight arrivals and the other for flight departures. The first floor has the departures lounge and 24 boarding gates. In total, the terminal covers over 92,000 m$^2$ and it has the capacity to handle 8.2 million passengers per year.

## History
### Early years

The airport was opened officially on 14 September 1969.
In 1973, El Matorral Airport began to operate its first flights to European countries with the airline Condor, which linked the German city of Düsseldorf directly with Puerto del Rosario.

### Development since the 1990s

In 1994, construction started on a new terminal building, an aircraft apron, a taxiway parallel to the runway, a power plant and a new access road. The works were completed with the extension of the car park and a detour on the Puerto de Rosario–Matorral road adding some two kilometres, of which 1.5 are double lane. With the new facilities it was possible to handle around five million passengers a year and manage around 3,100 passengers per hour at peak periods.

## Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Fuerteventura Airport:
| Airlines | Destinations |
| Aer Lingus | Seasonal: Dublin |
| Air Nostrum | Seasonal charter: Porto |
| AlbaStar | Seasonal: Bergamo |
| Austrian Airlines | Seasonal: Vienna |
| Binter Canarias | Gran Canaria, La Palma, Tenerife–North Seasonal: Funchal |
| Braathens International Airways | Seasonal charter: Copenhagen, Gothenburg Stockholm–Arlanda |
| British Airways | Seasonal: London–Gatwick |
| Brussels Airlines | Brussels |
| CanaryFly | Gran Canaria, Tenerife–North |
| Chair Airlines | Seasonal: Zürich |
| Condor | Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Stuttgart Seasonal: Nuremberg |
| Corendon Airlines | Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hannover, Nuremberg |
| Discover Airlines | Frankfurt, Munich |
| easyJet | Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin, Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Manchester, Milan–Malpensa, Paris–Charles de Gaulle Seasonal: Amsterdam, Belfast–International, Edinburgh, Glasgow |
| Edelweiss Air | Zürich |
| Eurowings | Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg Seasonal: Berlin, Nuremberg, Stuttgart |
| Enter Air | Katowice, Warsaw–Chopin, Poznan, Wrocław Seasonal charter: Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden |
| Finnair | Seasonal charter: Helsinki |
| Freebird Airlines | Seasonal charter: Cologne/Bonn, Leipzig/Halle, Paderborn/Lippstadt |
| Iberia | Madrid Seasonal: Seville, Valencia |
| Iberia Express | Madrid |
| Jet2.com | Belfast–International, Birmingham, Bournemouth (begins 2 April 2025), Bristol, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London–Luton (begins 6 April 2025), London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Lufthansa | Seasonal: Munich |
| Luxair | Luxembourg |
| Marabu | Cologne/Bonn Seasonal: Munich |
| Neos | Bologna, Milan–Malpensa, Rome–Fiumicino, Verona |
| Play | Seasonal: Reykjavík–Keflavík |
| Ryanair | Barcelona, Bergamo, Berlin, Birmingham, Bologna, Bournemouth (resumes 1 April 2025), Bristol, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Cork, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Kraków, Leeds/Bradford, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Madrid, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Pisa, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Shannon, Vienna, Weeze Seasonal: Liverpool, Milan–Malpensa, Rome–Fiumicino |
| Scandinavian Airlines | Seasonal charter: Copenhagen, Oslo |
| Smartwings | Brno, Katowice, Prague, Warsaw–Chopin Seasonal charter: Budapest |
| Sunclass Airlines | Seasonal charter: Stockholm–Arlanda |
| Sundair | Berlin, Bremen, Dresden, Münster/Osnabrück |
| TAP Air Portugal | Lisbon |
| Transavia | Amsterdam Seasonal: Nantes, Paris–Orly |
| TUI Airways | Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff (begins 20 December 2025), London–Gatwick, Manchester |
| TUI fly Belgium | Brussels |
| TUI fly Deutschland | Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart |
| TUI fly Netherlands | Amsterdam, Rotterdam |
| Volotea | Asturias, Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Toulouse Seasonal: Lille |
| Vueling | Barcelona, Bilbao, Málaga, Paris–Orly, Santiago de Compostela, Seville |
| Wizz Air | Seasonal: Katowice, Warsaw–Chopin |

## Statistics

| | Passengers | Aircraft movements | Cargo (tonnes) |
| 2000 | 3,467,614 | 31,663 | 4,487 |
| 2001 | 3,577,638 | 30,471 | 3,837 |
| 2002 | 3,620,576 | 32,520 | 3,712 |
| 2003 | 3,919,224 | 39,695 | 3,694 |
| 2004 | 3,917,109 | 39,865 | 3,639 |
| 2005 | 4,071,875 | 40,415 | 3,178 |
| 2006 | 4,458,711 | 44,044 | 3,196 |
| 2007 | 4,629,877 | 44,870 | 3,127 |
| 2008 | 4,492,003 | 44,552 | 2,722 |
| 2009 | 3,738,492 | 36,429 | 1,913 |
| 2010 | 4,173,686 | 39,437 | 1,710 |
| 2011 | 4,948,018 | 44,551 | 1,557 |
| 2012 | 4,399,023 | 37,772 | 1,214 |
| 2013 | 4,259,341 | 35,498 | 1,022 |
| 2014 | 4,764,632 | 40,066 | 978 |
| 2015 | 5,027,415 | 39,307 | 937 |
| 2016 | 5,676,323 | 45,456 | 945 |
| 2017 | 6,049,291 | 48,216 | 946 |
| 2018 | 6,118,893 | 51,541 | 874 |
| 2019 | 5,635,417 | 47.223 | 735 |
| Source: Aena Statistics ||||

### Busiest routes

Busiest international routes from FUE (2023) :
| Rank | Destination | Passengers | Change 2022 / 23 |
| 1 | Düsseldorf | 297,986 | 8% |
| 2 | Manchester | 271,122 | 19% |
| 3 | Frankfurt | 251,962 | 8% |
| 4 | London-Gatwick | 191,602 | 20% |
| 5 | Hamburg | 177,154 | 13% |
| 6 | London-Stansted | 175,354 | 11% |
| 7 | Birmingham | 160,573 | 9% |
| 8 | Munich | 143,352 | 0% |
| 9 | Hannover | 114,607 | 3% |
| 10 | Stuttgart | 112,342 | 26% |
| 11 | Bristol | 106,282 | 16% |
| 12 | Cologne/Bonn | 101,001 | 20% |
| 13 | Amsterdam | 100,214 | 3% |
| 14 | Edinburgh | 98,319 | 20% |
| 15 | Dublin | 97,116 | 51% |
| 16 | Berlin | 95,869 | 2% |
| 17 | Leeds/Bradford | 92,002 | 14% |
| 18 | Newcastle | 78,437 | 17% |
| 19 | London-Luton | 78,058 | 12% |
| 20 | Paris-Orly | 77,268 | 19% |
| Source: Estadísticas de tráfico aereo ||||
Busiest domestic routes from FUE (2023) :
| Rank | Destination | Passengers | Change 2022 / 23 |
| 1 | Gran Canaria | 653,628 | 10% |
| 2 | Madrid | 414,160 | 6% |
| 3 | Tenerife-North | 323,889 | 7% |
| 4 | Barcelona | 153,905 | 4% |
| 5 | Seville | 79,477 | 10% |
| 6 | Santiago de Compostela | 74,114 | 29% |
| 7 | Bilbao | 39,769 | 11% |
| 8 | Valencia | 20,241 | 6% |
| 9 | Málaga | 18,615 | 8% |
| 10 | Asturias | 10,577 | 8% |
| Source: Estadísticas de tráfico aereo ||||