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Airport HistoryEst. 1969
Fuerteventura's airport began as a 1940s military airfield at Tefía before civil aviation moved to a more accessible site, culminating in the 1969 opening of the current El Matorral Airport near Puerto del Rosario. Steady tourism-driven growth through the 1970s-2000s, capped by a major 2006 expansion program, transformed it into one of the Canary Islands' busiest gateways.
Construction begins on a military airfield at Tefía as part of Spain's Archipelago Defence Plan, the earliest predecessor to today's civil airport.
The airfield opens officially to national and international civil flights in January, following relocation of operations closer to Puerto del Rosario.
The current El Matorral Airport is officially inaugurated on September 14 in Puerto del Rosario; the first aircraft to land on the new runway is an Iberia Fokker 27 flying the Las Palmas-Fuerteventura-Lanzarote route.
El Matorral begins its first flights to continental Europe, with Condor connecting Düsseldorf directly to Puerto del Rosario, opening the island to German tourism.
Construction starts on a new terminal building, expanded aircraft apron, parallel taxiway, power plant, and improved access roads to handle rapidly growing passenger numbers (which had surpassed 1.6 million by 1992).
A major expansion program, representing an investment of over €237 million, aims to double the airport's capacity to serve up to eight million passengers a year.
Official Aena airport history page and general encyclopedic sources (Wikipedia). Early relocation dates (Tefía to Los Estancos, cited variously as 1952 or later) are inconsistently sequenced across sources and presented here in the order given by Aena's own history page.