ROUTES AFRICA Tenerife


Q&A


Fernando Santiago Yus Saenz de Cenzano


Director, Tenerife South Airport


A lot of companies are using Tenerife as a forward base


international travellers, the significant majority of which are tourists. About four million travellers


used Tenerife North Airport in the same year, although only 1% was international traffic, with the rest being from either mainland Spain or other Canary Islands. Indeed, Wear adds since Tenerife has been sending delegations to every Routes event except Routes Asia since 2009, it has been able to introduce 100 new routes and 20 new carriers, leaving the island with strong connections to Europe. Wear says: “Obviously we are well


connected to Europe, there’s very few airports in Europe that don’t have a direct flight to Tenerife. “About 90% of leisure traffic is from


Europe and we have worked very hard to get premium carriers such as British Airways and Lufthansa to fly here.” Instead, as Tenerife seeks to forge


greater commercial links with Africa, targeting increased air connectivity both eastwards and westwards has become part of a wider strategy. She adds: “Where we have really


focused our efforts in the last two years is trying to better our connectivity to North America. I’m very keen to increase our connectivity with West Africa as well. Four years ago we didn’t have any flights to Africa but now we do and hopefully we can increase that. We’re looking at being a hub for Europe and Africa.” For this reason the island’s route development programme is just w


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What is the current state of play at Tenerife South Airport? We have links to 131 destinations in 26 countries through 63 airlines and we feel that we are well connected with our European market. Despite this, the airport is working to expand this market and number of routes.


What incentives do you offer to airline partners? Aena offers a number of incentives: Passenger growth incentive: 75% discount on the passenger charge in additional passengers on a route on year ‘n’ (payable 50% on year n+1 and 25% in n+2). New route incentive: 100% discount on the passenger charge if the route is to a new destination on year ‘n’ (payable 75% on year n+1 and 25% in n+2). Transfer incentive: 40% discount on passenger and security charges in 2016.


Off-peak day incentive: 50% discount on landing and passenger charges. The off-peak day in


Tenerife South Airport (2015)


Passengers: 9.1 million 


Annual air operations: 58,461 


Annual tons transported: 2,836 


Number of airlines: 63 


Number of countries: 26 


Number of routes: 131 Loa Cristianos


Tenerife South is Thursday. Aena has just announced the


freezing of airport rates until 2021. Tenerife South Airport also offers marketing support actions for opening new routes that may include opening flight ceremony, publicity at the airport and outside the airport, promotional discounts, marketing support for base start-up and new airlines that open long-haul routes.


How do you differentiate yourself from your competitors? By providing a safe and high quality service at very competitive rates.


What are your future plans? We plan to carry out upgrades to meet both medium and long-term future traffic demand. The changes include adapting and increasing aircraft positions at small scales (allowing walking boarding from the terminal); putting Terminal 2 (T2) into sustained operation; increasing the number of gates; and optimising the passenger distribution in the airside area. We also want to improve the flow in the passport control area for non-EU arrivals as well as in the main security area and separate the collection of special baggage, depending on the origin.


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