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Tenerife Sur Airport (GCTS/TFS) is a large international airport on the south coast of Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands, operated by Aena and serving as the island's principal gateway for tourist traffic. Its single long paved runway with ILS on both ends makes it a straightforward destination for instrument approaches, though its scale and international traffic mean it is firmly an airline environment rather than a general aviation field.
Tenerife Sur, known by its IATA code TFS and ICAO code GCTS, is a large international airport situated in the south of Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands. It is operated by Aena and functions as the island's main hub for inbound tourist traffic, complementing the older Tenerife Norte airport. For a simulator pilot, it offers a long, well-equipped runway with full ILS coverage and a busy, professionally controlled airspace environment typical of a major holiday-destination airport.
The airport lies on the southern coast of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands archipelago of Spain, at an elevation of 197 feet. Its coordinates place it at approximately 28.0444 N, 16.5725 W.
Tenerife Sur has a single physical runway, 07/25, a hard-surfaced strip roughly 10,478 feet long. Both ends are lit and equipped with ILS, allowing instrument approaches from either direction depending on wind and traffic flow.
Pilots can expect to work Tenerife Sur's full suite of controlled frequencies: Delivery on 121.75 MHz, Ground on 121.9 MHz, Tower on 119 MHz, Approach on 120.3 MHz, and ATIS broadcasting on 118.675 MHz. The airport's ILS, serving both runway ends, supports instrument approaches in poor weather.
Tenerife Sur is operated by Aena as a major international airport handling scheduled and charter airline traffic to the Canary Islands. The passenger terminal closes to the public between 2300 and 0400 local time whenever no flights are scheduled, with access restricted to staff and passengers ahead of departures during that window.
