Tenerife This winter it will have 4,155,575 regular air seats, which is the highest figure in its history, with 300,000 more seats than in the same 2018-2019 seasonwhen the previous maximum was reached.
As the Cabildo recalls in a press release, the regular places last summer were also a record for the island, with a total of 5.1 million, 126,259 more than in 2019.
For the winter, more than half of the 4.1 million places for this winter will be foreign, with almost 2.3 million placess, which represents a growth with respect to winter 19/20, of +24% (+443,380 seats).
Likewise, from the Peninsula, there will be almost 1 million places (977,665 seats), which is 27% more than in 19/20 (+205,851 more seats).
Similarly, Places are increased in the main markets of the island, such as the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italywhile compared to winter 19/20, the regular arrival capacity to Tenerife for next winter 22/23 remains higher in practically all markets.
In this regard, the island president, Pedro Martín, highlighted the work carried out by the Tourism team at the Routes World fair, the most important route fair in the world, and assured that “although Tenerife already has a wide direct connection, with 110 routes in 25 markets, this fair has explored the possibility of connecting the island with new cities on the American continent and the Middle East”.
He also explained that during the professional meetings talks have also been established with companies that already operate with Tenerife to improve connectivity with third destinations in the United States, Canada and the Middle East.
“This would mean that a passenger can travel to the island, from some points of origin with which Tenerife does not have a direct connection, with a minimum wait at a connecting airport and without having to check their luggage twice,” he said.
For her part, the island’s Director of Tourism, Laura Castro, emphasizes that “this type of strategy, on which Tenerife is working intensely, will mean a significant reduction in waiting time at airports for travellers, who on many occasions have to spend hours and even nights in the terminals to continue their trip to Tenerife”.
Here, he advanced that conversations have been held with Icelandair with the aim of increasing connections through the Reykjavík airport, where numerous travelers arrive from the United States or Canada.
“The objective is that the final destination of these travelers is Tenerife,” Castro reiterated, later emphasizing that “we have established similar conversations with the hub of Lisbon and the airline TAP Portugal, and we have started the prospecting process with different connection points in the Middle East”.
