Tenerife North Airport , formerly Los Rodeos Airport, is one of the two international airports on the island of Tenerife, Spain. It is located 11 km (6.8 mi) by road from Santa Cruz and at an altitude of 633 metres. In 1977 the airport was the site of the worst accident in aviation history when 583 passengers and crew were killed after two Boeing 747s collided on the runway in heavy fog. Combined with the Tenerife South Airport, gather the highest passenger movement in the Canary Islands with 12,764,375 passengers (AENA report) and low-cost airlines, with a total of 20. Given the two airports on the island of Tenerife is the most popular tourist and performing more operations of the Canary Islands.
Today, TFN is an inter-island hub, connecting all seven Canary Islands, and offers connections to the Spanish Peninsula, Europe, and North America. The route between Tenerife North and Madrid is the airport's busiest with an average of 40 flights per day.
In 2007, the airport handled 4,125,131 passengers and 65,843 aircraft movements. The busiest air route from the airport in terms of passengers is the one to Madrid Airport, at over one million passengers a year.
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