Reina Sofia Airport Tenerife - Spain, Tenerife

As mentioned in my previous review I spent the week in Tenerife recently. As with many people I flew to the southern airport. Since this is a newer building designed to carry large numbers of international passengers whereas the airport in the North was desgined for fewer passengers, it should preform this function very well. Your first view of the airport is likely to be as you come in to land, you will see a long low building which runs parrellel to the runway with carparks and the motorway beyond it. As you land its worth noting that the landing is likely to be noisy and quite rough as the ... more

It has recently come to my attention that there are two types of airports out there. There are nice, large international ones like, say, Manchester or LAX, which served numerous destinations worldwide and which have more shops and restaurants than some town centres. And then, there are the others which, well, don’t. These others are often in the type of resorts tourist go on package holidays, and since they are usually barely used by business travelers, they seem to forget their duty as airports (to keep me busy in the 2 hours between check in and take off) and see themselves solely as ... more