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🇪🇸 Fuerteventura, Spain

Fuerteventura Airport (FUE)

Fuerteventura Airport (FUE, GCFV) serves Fuerteventura, Spain. Flights leaving FUE left an average of 14.6 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 39th least delayed of 88 busy European airports. 6.8 million passengers used it in the twelve months to March 2026, most often flying to or from Gran Canaria.

Delays at FUE

Average departure delay per flight: 14.6 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in November (17.8 min) and lightest in April (11.1 min).

Average departure delay per flight from FUE, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
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MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 202513.2 min2,357
September 202514.9 min2,224
October 202515.1 min2,235
November 202517.8 min2,307
December 202514.8 min2,305
January 202616.8 min2,111
February 202613.5 min2,031
March 202613.6 min2,402
April 202611.1 min2,121
May 202614.5 min2,092
June 202614.7 min2,090
July 202615.3 min2,407

Air traffic flow restrictions held 1.8% of arrivals at FUE for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of weather (64% of those delay minutes).

Departure delay counts every cause, from the airline to air traffic control, and is measured against the scheduled time. Source: EUROCONTROL Aviation Intelligence Portal, summarised by TripStow. EUROCONTROL does not endorse TripStow.

Passengers at FUE

6,784,061 passengers used FUE in the twelve months to March 2026, on 52,859 commercial flights.

Passengers by month at FUE, arrivals and departures together.
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MonthPassengersFlights
April 2025573,8034,427
May 2025507,0264,193
June 2025527,6954,102
July 2025610,3834,618
August 2025624,1944,672
September 2025552,5784,377
October 2025584,0914,416
November 2025569,8374,541
December 2025542,7694,579
January 2026528,7604,182
February 2026543,9464,016
March 2026618,9794,736

Eurostat publishes airport figures a few months behind. Source: Eurostat (CC BY 4.0), summarised by TripStow.

Busiest routes from FUE

  1. Gran Canaria (LPA)691,346 passengers
  2. Madrid (MAD)434,525 passengers
  3. Tenerife Norte (TFN)335,517 passengers
  4. Duesseldorf (DUS)321,842 passengers
  5. Manchester (MAN)287,816 passengers
  6. Frankfurt am Main (FRA)244,630 passengers
  7. London Gatwick (LGW)215,125 passengers
  8. London Stansted (STN)190,631 passengers
  9. Hamburg (HAM)183,095 passengers
  10. Birmingham (BHX)172,313 passengers

Passengers in 2024, both directions together. Source: Eurostat (CC BY 4.0), summarised by TripStow.

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Fuerteventura (FUE)?
Flights leaving FUE left an average of 14.6 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 39th least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at FUE?
November 2025, when flights left an average of 17.8 minutes late; the lightest month was April 2026 (11.1 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at FUE?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At FUE in the last year the biggest cause was weather (64% of those minutes), then air traffic control (35%).

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