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The route between Tenerife North and Gran Canaria is the busiest with an average 40 flights per day.
The route between Tenerife North and Gran Canaria is the busiest with an average 40 flights per day.


In the 1977 Tenerife disaster, a PanAm and a KLM Boeing 747 collided on the runway after a KLM plane started to take off without permission from the control tower, killing 583 people - the worst aircraft accident in history. The dense fog that regularly plagues the airport played a major role in this disaster, and since then a second airport, Tenerife Reina Sofía has been built in the south at a lower altitude (where the weather is much more ideal for airport operations). Most airlines have moved their flights to this airport and as a result Los Rodeos is now much quieter than it was before the disaster.
In the 1977 Tenerife disaster, a PanAm and a KLM Boeing 747 collided on the runway after a KLM plane started to take off without permission from the control tower, killing 583 people - the worst aircraft accident in history. The dense fog that regularly plagues the airport played a major role in this disaster, and since then a second airport, Tenerife Reina Sofía has been built in the south at a lower altitude (where the weather is more ideal for airport operations). Most airlines have moved their flights to this airport and as a result Los Rodeos is now much quieter than it was before the disaster.


In 2004 the airport registered passenger traffic of 3.3 million (+15%),In 2005 it rose to 3.8million (+11%)and in 2006 it was over 4 million (+7%).Flights in the same period rose from 56,000 to 65,000 . The busiest route number being to Madrid Airport, at over one million people.
In 2004 the airport registered passenger traffic of 3.3 million (+15%),In 2005 it rose to 3.8million (+11%)and in 2006 it was over 4 million (+7%).Flights in the same period rose from 56,000 to 65,000 . The busiest route number being to Madrid Airport, at over one million people.