Fuerteventura Airport

Fuerteventura Airport is the principal airport of Fuerteventura, the second-largest of the Canary Islands by land area and the easternmost inhabited Spanish territory, located just 60 mi (97 km) off the Moroccan Atlantic coast. Situated at El Matorral 3 mi (5 km) south of the island capital Puerto del Rosario, FUE handles 124 routes to 69 destinations operated by 39 airlines — a carrier count unusually high for an island airport and characteristic of the Canaries' pan-European inbound-charter tradition. Fuerteventura is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and one of Europe's top beach, windsurfing, and kiteboarding destinations; the airport's strategic role is to channel leisure traffic from across Europe to the island's dispersed coastal resort zones from Corralejo in the north to the Jandía peninsula in the south. No hub operation exists at FUE; the network is a mix of year-round and seasonal leisure traffic. Ryanair, easyJet, Jet2.com, TUI Airways, TUI Fly Belgium, TUI Fly Netherlands, TUI Fly Deutschland, Condor, Eurowings, Lufthansa, KLM, Transavia, Transavia France, Volotea, Vueling, Iberia Express, Binter Canarias, Canaryfly, Norwegian, SAS, Finnair, Jet2, British Airways (seasonal), Neos, Enter Air, LOT Polish Airlines, Smartwings, and Pegasus are all regular or seasonal operators. The route network concentrates on the UK, Germany, Ireland, the Nordics, the Benelux, Poland, Czechia, Italy, France, and mainland Spain. Domestic Canarian inter-island service is provided by Binter Canarias and Canaryfly from the Tenerife Norte, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, and La Palma airports. The airfield sits at 85 ft (26 m) elevation with a single 11,598 ft (3,535 m) asphalt runway, 01/19, long enough to support any commercial aircraft type and occasionally used for widebody seasonal charter operations and technical stops. The single integrated passenger terminal handles all operations and has been progressively expanded to accommodate growth in northern European leisure traffic. FUE is operated by Aena, the Spanish airport network operator. The airport is also locally notable as an alternate and relief airport for trans-Atlantic operations routing the Canaries corridor and for emergency diversions from sub-Saharan African airspace.