GCXO
Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna Airport
IFR
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Name
Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna Airport
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ICAO / IATA / GPS
GCXO / TFN / GCXO
- Type
- Restriction
- Region
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Timezone
7:59 pm (CET)
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Municipality
Tenerife
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Coordinates
28° 28′ 57″ N 16° 20′ 29″ E
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Elevation
2’077 ft (633 m MSL)
About Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna Airport
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 3,717,944 passengers in 2012. Combined with Tenerife South Airport, the island gathers the highest passenger movement of all the Canary Islands, with 12,248,673 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.