Tenerife will have this winter more than 4.1 million air seats, the best figure in its history. The insular president, Pedro Martín, affirms that in this way “we ratify the solidity of our connectivity.” The confirmation came within Routes World, the most important routes fair in the world, held in Las Vegas. Martín explains that the island’s strategy involves “diversifying the international traveler profile, through agreements with connection airports that allow the island to open up to new points in the Middle East, Canada and the United States.”
Specifically, Tenerife has 4,155,575 regular air seats for the winter, “the best figure in our history,” says the president. He remembers that those of last summer were also a record for the Island, with a total of 5.1 million, 126,259 more than in 2019.
Peter Martin highlights the work carried out by the Tenerife Tourism team at Routes World in Las Vegas. He assures that “although Tenerife already has a wide direct connection, with 110 routes in 25 markets, in this meeting of experts in the sector the possibility of connecting the Island with new cities on the American continent and the Middle East has been explored”.
The island president explains that during the professional meetings conversations 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.
The president explains that “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 an intermediate airport and without the need to check their luggage twice” .
For her part, the island’s Director of Tourism, Laura Castro, emphasizes that “this type of strategy, in which Tenerife is working intensely, will mean a Significant reduction in waiting time at airports for travelerswho on many occasions have to spend hours and even nights in the terminals to continue their trip to Tenerife».
Laura Castro also advances 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 goal is that the final destination of these travelers is Tenerife,” Castro reiterates, later highlighting that “we have established similar conversations with the Lisbon hub (communications node) and the airline TAP Portugal.” In addition, he anticipates that “we have started the pprospecting process with different connection points in the Middle East”.
The Vegas Fair
The CEO of Tenerife Tourism, David Pérez, assures that, during the World Routes 2022 fair in which he was to represent the Island «we have held a fortnight of meetings with airports and airlines to work on the established strategy: continue improving connectivity and the positioning of Tenerife.
Pérez adds that «the meetings held in Las Vegas They will allow us, in addition to improving connections with the Island, to continue working on economic diversification, in the field of business and on the possibilities of increasing routes for the benefit of residents who wish to travel to destinations in the United States, Canada or the Far East. Medium”.
David Pérez assures that the analysis of data on the behavior of markets with which Tenerife has no direct connection It has been essential to implement this connectivity strategy through hubs or connection airports. “However, there are cases such as Canada, with a number of passengers received in the middle of the year, 2,827, which already reached 75% of those who arrived in the same period of 2019, 3,744”, he values.
intense activity
During the development of Routes World 2022, the delegation of Tenerife Tourism held meetings with airlines such as ITA, Eithad Airlines, Icelandair, Nordica-Estonia, Emirates Airlines, Qatar Airlines, Saudia Airlines, TAP Portugal, Vueling or Wizz, in addition to Binterwhich was also present in Las Vegas.
«The presence at the ‘Routes World’ fair, in Las Vegas, opens new points of connection»
Similarly, meetings were held with relevant international airports, such as Boston Logan International Airport, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Polish Airports or Istanbul Airport. In the latter, a parallel meeting was held with Turkis Airlines, the flag carrier of Turkey.
More than half of the 4.1 million seats planned for this winter will be offered abroad, with almost 2.3 million, which represents a growth compared to winter 19/20, of +24% (+443,380 seats) .
From the Peninsula, there will be almost 1 million places (977,665), which is 27% more than in 19/20 (+205,851). Reserves increased in the main markets of the Island, such as the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy.
With regard to winter 2019/2020, the regular arrival capacity in Tenerife for the next winter of the 2022-2023 season remains higher in practically all markets.
