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Tenerife South Airport (TFS)

Tenerife South Airport (TFS, GCTS) serves Tenerife, Spain. Flights leaving TFS left an average of 16.8 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 57th least delayed of 88 busy European airports. 13.9 million passengers used it in the twelve months to March 2026, most often flying to or from Manchester.

Delays at TFS

Average departure delay per flight: 16.8 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in November (19.2 min) and lightest in April (13.1 min).

Average departure delay per flight from TFS, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
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MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 202515.2 min3,304
September 202518.3 min3,126
October 202518.9 min3,582
November 202519.2 min4,057
December 202516.4 min4,178
January 202619.1 min4,061
February 202618.7 min3,831
March 202614.2 min4,201
April 202613.1 min3,321
May 202615.2 min3,034
June 202615.4 min2,933
July 202617.5 min3,145

Air traffic flow restrictions held 0.2% of arrivals at TFS for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of weather (87% 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 TFS

13,870,355 passengers used TFS in the twelve months to March 2026, on 85,333 commercial flights.

Passengers by month at TFS, arrivals and departures together.
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MonthPassengersFlights
April 20251,152,4377,190
May 2025982,2466,319
June 2025986,2476,062
July 20251,075,9256,404
August 20251,102,5446,462
September 2025991,2676,146
October 20251,157,3807,022
November 20251,277,6167,967
December 20251,263,4328,175
January 20261,267,3077,921
February 20261,252,1897,464
March 20261,361,7658,201

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

Busiest routes from TFS

  1. Manchester (MAN)975,825 passengers
  2. London Gatwick (LGW)728,806 passengers
  3. London Stansted (STN)521,242 passengers
  4. Birmingham (BHX)441,909 passengers
  5. Madrid (MAD)440,082 passengers
  6. Bristol (BRS)417,537 passengers
  7. Edinburgh (EDI)349,531 passengers
  8. Brussels (BRU)339,936 passengers
  9. East Midlands (EMA)317,969 passengers
  10. Dublin (DUB)312,432 passengers

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

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Tenerife (TFS)?
Flights leaving TFS left an average of 16.8 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 57th least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at TFS?
November 2025, when flights left an average of 19.2 minutes late; the lightest month was April 2026 (13.1 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at TFS?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At TFS in the last year the biggest cause was weather (87% of those minutes), then airport capacity (11%).

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