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, south of the city of Santa Cruz de La Palma on

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in the Canary Islands. It is operated by Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea (AENA), who operate the majority of civil airports in

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. The airport is served mainly by

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and CanaryFly with island-hopping flights from

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, but there are flights to the main Europe cities and charter flights from mainland Europe such as

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and the

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. In 2018, the airport had 1,420,277 passengers in the 22,033 operations handled. Cargo traffic totalled 565 tonnes.

New terminal

A new terminal building opened in July 2011, giving the airport an ultimate capacity of 3 million passengers per year. The new terminal has 25 check-in desks, 4 baggage carousels, and 9 boarding gates. The new terminal is farther back than the old terminal, meaning that apron space is maximised. There are still no plans to build a taxiway parallel to the runway, so aircraft still have to backtaxi on the runway, limiting capacity to 10 operations per hour. The airport also has a new control tower.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at La Palma Airport:

Incidents

The

2021 Cumbre Vieja volcanic eruption An eruption at the Cumbre Vieja volcanic ridge, comprising the southern half of the Spanish island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, lasted from 19 September to 13 December 2021. It was the first volcanic eruption on the island since the eru ...

on La Palma caused the airport to temporarily shut down operations.

Statistics

References

External links

* {{authority control Airports in the Canary Islands La Palma Airports established in 1970