The Canarian Government have announced that the tender for the new dual carriage between Caldereta and the airport will go out to tender in the next few weeks.
The road will cost approximately 100 million euros for the 17 km link.
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Strange and unusual Events when returning on the Tui flight last night (Arrived 19:00 hours from Birmingham).

Two National Police Officers sat in the little glass box. Usual glance at the Passport, then at what appeared to be at random, arrivals are handed a plain white sheet (eg. not Police or Island Government letterhead) with various question and a pen. The forms were completed as people stood at the glass box, so clearly there was very quickly a backlog of arrivals!!

One Policeman appe

The current airport in El Matorral celebrates it's 50th birthday tomorrow. The previous airport was in Los Estancos.

[color=#1c1e21][font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif][font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The first flight came in from Las Palmas, and in 1973 the first European flights arrived. The present terminal building opened in 1994 and was extended in 2006. The airport employs 2,300

If anyone is flying from Bristol Airport would you please be kind enoough, if you have time, to pop into SuperDrug and see if they sell travel hair straighteners for me please. Thanks in advance.

A new VIP Lounge has opened in the Departures area of Fuerteventura Airport, near Gates 3-5.

It's called Jable VIP lounge.

29.85€ for adults and 13.75€ for children for a maximum of 4 hours.

http://www.aena.es/en/fuerteventura-airp...ounge.html

We may need to take a flight from Lanzarote leaving the car for 2 weeks, has anyone had experience of doing this?

Someone I know is coming to Fuerte next Feb but is flying in to Arrecife (long story). Does anyone know if there is a bus service direct from the airport to Playa Blanca for the ferry? She doesn't drive, so that is not an option.



EDIT: chance of title, Sam. Old title: Lanza buses from airport - title is too short

419,214 passengers (Arrivals & Departures) passed through the airport in January 2020. That is a 5.4% decrease compared to January 2019. The number of flights, 3635, was down 9.3%.

Lanzarote had a drop of 7.1% and Tenerife South 6.8% in the same month.