Tourism in the Canary Islands rose by just 0.3 per cent in July. One island actually saw a fall in visitor numbers. Nevertheless, it is important to take a closer look.
Airports & air traffic in the Canary Islands
The airports in the Canary Islands are among the busiest in Spain and Europe, and their importance is growing year on year. In 2025, the archipelago’s seven airports handled a total of more than 54.7 million passengers, setting yet another record with a 3.6 per cent increase on the previous record-breaking year of 2024. Below you will find all the latest reports and analyses on the subject of airports and air traffic in the Canary Islands.
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Airports & Air Traffic in the Canary Islands
The airports in the Canary Islands are among the busiest in Spain and Europe, and their importance is growing year on year. In 2025, the archipelago’s seven airports handled a total of more than 54.7 million passengers – a new record representing a 3.6 per cent increase on the previous record-breaking year of 2024.
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Airports & Air Traffic in the Canary Islands
The airports in the Canary Islands are among the busiest in Spain and Europe, and their importance is growing year on year. In 2025, the archipelago’s seven airports handled a total of more than 54.7 million passengers – another record, representing a 3.6 per cent increase on the previous record-breaking year of 2024. The Canary Islands‘ airports thus account for more than 14 per cent of the total passenger volume on the Spanish Aena network. Whether it’s air traffic control alerts, closures due to severe weather, billion-euro investments in terminal expansion or the day-to-day operations of these Atlantic hubs, Tenerife News provides comprehensive coverage of everything happening at the airports in Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro.
Gran Canaria and Tenerife South airports: a comparison of the major transit hubs
Gran Canaria Airport (LPA) tops the rankings of Canary Islands airports: in 2025, it handled around 15.8 million passengers, an increase of four per cent. Close behind is Tenerife South Airport (TFS), known as Reina Sofía, which recorded just under 14 million travellers in 2025. This means that Tenerife as a whole – including the northern airport TFN, which accounted for 7.2 million passengers on its own – once again attracted the most holidaymakers of all the Canary Islands, with around 21 million travellers. Tenerife South Airport opened in 1978 and today has a nominal capacity of 12 million passengers per year, a limit that is regularly exceeded. It has 34 boarding gates and eight jet bridges. Lanzarote ranks third with around 8.9 million passengers, meaning this airport too has reached its official capacity limit of 9 million. In 2025, Fuerteventura recorded the strongest percentage growth of all the major islands, with an increase of 6.8 per cent to 6.9 million passengers. The airport operator, Aena, earns an average of 6.10 euros per passenger and achieved a net profit growth of more than 27 per cent in the first nine months of 2024 alone.
Expansion, bottlenecks and the debate on growth limits
The historic passenger record – exceeding 50 million air travellers for the first time in 2024 – has ruthlessly exposed the capacity limits of the Canary Islands‘ infrastructure. Several airports are operating at or beyond their breaking point. The debate over billion-euro investments in terminal expansion is politically charged: On the one hand, there are the economic interests of the tourism industry; on the other, growing public resistance to further growth in tourism. Incidents such as air traffic controller strikes, weather-related closures caused by Calima storms or technical failures regularly lead to chaos at the airports and affect tens of thousands of travellers at once. Teneriffa News was the first German-language media outlet on the ground for many of these events and reported in detail on everything from closed runways to delays lasting several hours. In 2025, around 32.1 million travellers used international flight connections to the Canary Islands, an increase of 3.8 per cent. In the first ten months of 2025, 45.2 million passengers had already passed through Canary Islands airports, an increase of 4.6 per cent compared with the same period the previous year. All the relevant news, analyses and reports on air traffic in the Canary Islands are collected and updated on this page.