Tenerife North–Ciudad de La Laguna Airport
Tenerife North Ciudad de La Laguna Airport Aeropuerto de Tenerife Norte Ciudad de La Laguna | |||||||||||||
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Tenerife North Airport in 2013 | |||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||
| Owner/Operator | Aena | ||||||||||||
| Serves | Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife | ||||||||||||
| Location | San Cristóbal de La Laguna | ||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 633 m / 2,077 ft | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 28°28′58″N 016°20′30″W / 28.48278°N 16.34167°W | ||||||||||||
| Website | aena.es | ||||||||||||
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Tenerife North–Ciudad de La Laguna Airport (IATA: TFN, ICAO: GCXO), formerly Los Rodeos Airport, is the smaller of the two international airports on the island of Tenerife, Spain. It is located in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, 11 km (7 mi) by road from Santa Cruz and at an elevation of 633 metres (2,077 ft). It handled 6,120,550 passengers in 2023. Combined with Tenerife South Airport, the island gathers the highest passenger movement of all the Canary Islands, with 18,457,794 passengers, surpassing Gran Canaria Airport. Today TFN is an inter-island hub connecting all seven of the main Canary Islands with connections to the Iberian Peninsula and Europe.
In 1977, the airport was the infamous site of the deadliest accident in aviation history, when two Boeing 747s collided on the runway in heavy fog conditions, causing the deaths of 583 passengers and crew.