César Manrique-Lanzarote Airport

César Manrique-Lanzarote Airport is the principal air gateway to Lanzarote, the easternmost of Spain's Canary Islands, located in San Bartolomé roughly 3 mi (5 km) southwest of the capital Arrecife and 78 mi (125 km) off the Moroccan coast. The airport ranks among Spain's busiest by passenger volume and sits firmly in the upper tier of Europe's leisure gateways, moving a network of 142 routes to 79 destinations operated by 40 airlines — an airline count unusually high for an island airport of its size and a signature of the pan-European inbound-charter and low-cost model that dominates the Canaries. No carrier runs a scheduled hub at ACE; instead, the route map is shaped by seasonal and year-round leisure traffic from the UK, Germany, Ireland, the Nordics, the Benelux, and mainland Spain. Binter Canarias, Canaryfly, Iberia Express, Vueling, Ryanair, easyJet, Jet2, TUI Airways, British Airways, Eurowings, Condor, Lufthansa, KLM, and Transavia all serve the airport, alongside a long tail of Nordic and Central European holiday carriers. Domestic Canarian hops to Gran Canaria, Tenerife Norte, Fuerteventura, and La Palma tie the island into the regional inter-island network operated predominantly by Binter's ATR turboprops. The airfield has a single asphalt runway, 03/21, at 7,874 ft (2,400 m), adequate for Boeing 757/767 and Airbus A320/A321 widebody-feeder operations typical of Canaries charter traffic. Two passenger terminals handle separated traffic: T1 takes international and non-Schengen operations, T2 is dedicated to inter-island and domestic Spanish flights. The airport is named after the Lanzarote-born artist, architect, and conservationist César Manrique, whose influence is visible across the island's building codes. ACE also carries a distinct cultural-heritage significance as the original site of the pioneering 1946 Guasimeta airfield. Elevation is 46 ft (14 m).