Lanzarote Airport is the airport in Spain that adds the most routes this winter. There are a total of 30 new routes. The second in the entire country is Gran Canaria Airport, which adds 29 routes.
In addition, the airport on the island of volcanoes is among the three airports in the Canary Islands with the highest number of places available for this season. There are 4.4 million seats scheduled for Lanzarote, which is 39.3% more than in the same period of 2019, according to Aena.
Of these places, almost three million are for international flights (40% more) and for the national territory, almost 1.4 million (38% more).
These are data that do not take into account the adjustment for the impact that COVID 19 had in the last two weeks of March 2020, which were greatly affected by the imposition of mobility restrictions.
Places throughout the archipelago
In the Canary Islands as a whole, airlines have scheduled 27 million seats for the winter season, which is an increase of 26.8% compared to the winter season of 2019.
Some historical figures of tourist traffic, in relation to the number of seats scheduled, which consolidate the Canary Islands destination as a reference place to visit.
In the international market, the supply of seats increases, with 33% more places than in the winter season of 2019, adding a total of 17.1 million places, while in the national market the
increase is 17%, with 9.8 million seats scheduled with destinations between Spanish airports.
At the inter-island level, the winter season will have an offer of 4.9 million seats, 4% more than in the same period of 2019. The number of scheduled movements also increases by 20.4%, with 183,182 commercial operations.
The island airports island by island
Lanzarote is the airport that adds the most routes this winter, but in total number of places Gran Canaria and Tenerife South occupy the first and second place respectively.
Gran Canaria Airport, with 8.2 million places, will have 24% more than in 2019. Of these, almost 5 million have an international origin (31% more compared to 2019), and 3.2 million other points in Spain, which increase by 18% compared to 2019.
For its part, Tenerife South has an offer of 7 million seats (36% more), of which 6.4 million will be for international flights (35% more) and 553,554 for flights in the national territory (56% more).
In fourth place, behind Lanzarote Airport, is Fuerteventura Airport, where there will be more than 3.4 million seats offered, (+34%), almost 2.6 million seats are for international flights (+44%) and 862,220 for national flights (+12%).
From the Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna Airport, 3 million seats have been offered, with an increase of 6.2% and with a breakdown of 2.9 million of national traffic and 31,690 of international traffic.
In the case of La Palma, with 781,302 seats, 620,948 national places and 160,354 international places have been scheduled.
Finally, the airlines will offer 145,424 places at El Hierro Airport; and in La Gomera 78,596 seats scheduled, all of them to inter-island destinations.
