Tenerife AirportAbout us
Who runs this website, where does each piece of information come from, and what we do not publish.
Who is behind this website?
aeropuertotenerife.es is a small editorial project devoted to sorting out the transport information that operators publish badly, late, or inside a PDF nobody can read. We are not Aena, we are not an airline and we do not sell tickets or transfers.
We have not been to Tenerife yet. We say this because reading ‘we love this island and we come back every year’ on an airport website is of no use to anyone, and because the source of what you’re about to read is different: here there are no personal impressions, just data from an official source, verified and dated.
How we work
Where everything comes from.
- Flights, as shown in the official timetables for the two airports, booked 14 days in advance.
- The buses, from TITSA’s official GTFS published by the Tenerife Island Council under an open licence.
- The taxi in the North, which operates under a regulated fare, is listed in the Official Gazette. The fare for the South has not been published and therefore does not appear.
- Airport data, from Aena’s public information.
And, above all: If it cannot be verified, it is not published. That’s why there’s no table here showing ‘taxi fares to the port’, nor the duration of each flight, nor the car park charges. It’s less convenient, but it’s more honest.
What we came across along the way
Three things we discovered whilst building this website, and which say more about how we work than any statement of intent:
- The official GTFS for buses does not include the column that states the direction of each trip. Taken at face value, it mixes up the outbound and return journeys and gives frequencies that are half the actual ones. The timetables on this website work out the direction of each journey’s destination, one by one.
- The published flight timetable more bus routes than aircraft: the same flight appears once for each airline that sells seats on it. At the two airports in Tenerife, this inflates the total by around a third. Here, we count aircraft.
- And the most Canarian case of all: Binter Canarias hardly ever flies its own aircraft. Their routes are operated by Canair and Naysa, which appear as separate airlines in the timetable. Together, they are the island’s largest operator.
Correct us
If you spot anything wrong — a timetable that’s changed, an out-of-date fare, or a detail that doesn’t add up — please email us at [email protected]. It is corrected, and the date of the correction is stated.
Where do the photos come from?
The photos on this website are taken from Wikimedia Commons, and each one is credited with its author and licence. Those from CC0 licence they do not require attribution; nevertheless, we provide it.
| Photo | Author | Licence | Original |
|---|---|---|---|
| A plane landing at Tenerife North Airport | Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Approach to the runway at Tenerife North Airport | Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Tenerife North airport terminal | Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Tenerife South airport terminal | Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Inside Tenerife South Airport | Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Tenerife South Airport, in the municipality of Granadilla de Abona | Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Check-in area at Tenerife South airport | Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Aircraft parked at an airport in Tenerife | Commons | CC0 | Commons |
| Costa Adeje bus station | Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Departures board at a bus station in Tenerife | Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| La Laguna bus station | Commons | CC0 | Commons |
| Mount Teide above the sea of clouds | Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Commons |
| Sunrise on the slopes of Mount Teide | Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Mount Teide as seen from Las Cañadas | Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| The Anaga massif, in the north-eastern corner of Tenerife | Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Commons |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife from above | Commons | CC BY 4.0 | Commons |
| Plaza de Europa, in Puerto de la Cruz | Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Playa Honda, in Los Cristianos | Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| The coast of Adeje, in the south of Tenerife | Commons | CC BY 3.0 | Commons |
| The hamlet of Masca, in the Teno massif | Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Commons |
| The Chinamada coastline, in Anaga | Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Commons |
| Mountain road to Mesa del Mar, in the north of Tenerife | Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| View from Risco Verde, with the sea behind | Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
| Paseo del Guaydil, in Puerto de la Cruz | Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Commons |
Editor-in-chief of aeropuertotenerife.es: David Franco Aguirre, by GoRandom. Full identifying details in the legal notice.