Introduction
Located 8 kilometres outside Santa Cruz de la Palma, it is a modern airport fully equipped to contribute to the economic growth and development of tourism in the region it serves.
Traffic is above all domestic, centring around the airports of Tenerife Norte, Gran Canaria and Madrid-Barajas. Regarding international traffic, its origins and destinations are mainly Germany, United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
At La Palma airport, important developments has been made to the infraestructure - a new terminal building, a control tower and an extended apron - in order to adapt the aiport's capacity to air traffic demands.
In 2020, the airport had 721,337 passengers in the 13,696 operations handled. Cargo traffic totalled 279 tonnes.
Year | Passengers | year | Passengers |
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2011 | 1,067.,431 | 2016 | 1,116,146 |
2012 | 965,779 | 2017 | 1,302,485 |
2013 | 809,521 | 2018 | 1,420,277 |
2014 | 862,836 | 2019 | 1,483,778 |
2015 | 971,676 | 2020 | 721,337 |
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