Reina Sofia Airport Tenerife - Spain

Advantages: no long waits
Disadvantages: not many shops

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 ...
...As you land its worth noting that the landing is likely to be noisy and quite rough as the run way is quite short meaning your pilot needs to slam the brakes on as soon as you touch down. Once landed you will either disembark the plane via the airbridges direct in to the terminal building or via steps and then bussed up to the terminal. Either way I have never been on the plane longer than 10 minutes after touching down. Once in the terminal you ... Read review

Advantages: Fine if you fly during the day
Disadvantages: I didn't...

...flew from the latter, aka Reina Sofia (official website www.aena.es/ae/tfs/english/hometfs.htm if you want the English version). Now I’ve only flown from here once, and that involved a 5am check in so I may be biased, but this is what I found. The airport has an interesting structure – you often have to go up an escalator, across a path and then down another escalator to get anywhere, but it’s well signposted (English and Spanish) ...
...fact, except cleaning.. Reina Sofia serves numerous destinations – basically anywhere from which tourists want to come. You don’t usually get a choice of airline, but in the UK alone you can fly from there to Blackpool, Teeside, Liverpool, Manchester, Bristol and all the London places among others. They also serve most of mainland Europe and even a bit of America. There’re info desks for the airlines and the holiday companies, usually ... Read review