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La Gomera Airport Aeropuerto de La Gomera
IATA: GMZ ICAO: GCGM
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner/Operator	Aena
Serves	La Gomera
Location	Playa Santiago
Elevation AMSL	218 m / 716 ft
Coordinates	28°01′47″N 017°12′53″W / 28.02972°N 17.21472°W / 28.02972; -17.21472
Map
GMZLocation of airport in Canary Islands
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 09/27 1,500 4,921 Asphalt
Statistics (2021)
Passengers 81,367 Passengers change 20-21 45.7% Movements 2,624 Movements change 21.5% Cargo (t) 1.6
Source: Spanish AIP at EUROCONTROL, Aena

La Gomera Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto de La Gomera) (IATA: GMZ, ICAO: GCGM) is an airport located near the town of Playa Santiago on the island of La Gomera in the Canary Islands, 34 km (21 mi) southwest by road from the island's capital city, San Sebastián de la Gomera.

Although the runway was completed in 1994, the terminal did not open until 1999. As of August 2019, there are two return flights per day to Tenerife North and two return flights per day to Gran Canaria.

Although 34 km (21 mi) from the island capital, the airport was located here to avoid disturbing the Garajonay National Park and avoid the cloudier and foggier climate to the North of the island. Whilst the volcanic terrain gives few suitable sites anywhere on La Gomera, this site required extensive embankments at both ends of the runway.

History

Aviation in the island of La Gomera started in the 1950s, when a private airfield was constructed. Its name was "El Revolcadero" and it was situated on a hill west of the new airport.

This airfield had a runway (09-27), an hangar and a small stand which was used as control tower. The airfield was for the owner's private use, for cargo and fumigation works.

In 1962, the island had a lot of sanitary assistance problems, so studies to build an airport in the island were started, but this project was not carried out until 1975. However, due to the opening of the Tenerife South Airport and a new maritime line with the island, the project was again delayed.

Finally, in the 1980s, problems with wounded snake-bite evacuations necessitated building an airport in the island, and on 27 July 1987, an agreement for the construction of the airport was signed.

At the end of 1994 the airfield had a runway (09-27), an aircraft parking and a taxi way to the runway. The elected place to build the installations was the "Meseta de los Acantilados" (Plateau Cliffs), which is located 2 kilometers from the old airfield of "El Revolcadero".

At the end of 1991, when Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea (AENA), literally "Spanish Airports and Air Navigation", took over the airport, a passenger terminal was built, which was inaugurated in 1992. This passenger terminal has two floors and we can see in it the typical canarian architecture.

Airlines and destinations

Statistics

In the next chart, the evolution of passengers traffic by year is indicated.

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.

References

1. ^ EAD Basic
2. "La Gomera".
4. "Routes La Gomera". Flightradar24. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
5. "Google Maps".
6. "BOLETÍN OFICIAL DE CANARIAS. 361 - RESOLUCION de 13 de febrero de 1991, de la Secretaría General Técnica, por la que se dispone la publicación del Convenio de 11 de enero de 1991, entre la Administración del Estado y el Gobierno de Canarias para la financiación, gestión y seguimiento de las obras de infraestructura del aeropuerto de La Gomera (B.O.E. nº 64, de 15.3.91)" (PDF). Gobierno de Canarias. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
7. ^ "LIST OF PUBLIC SERVICE OBLIGATIONS" (PDF). Aeroroutes.com. 11 March 2024. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
8. "Evolution of passenger traffic". Aena. Archived from the original on 16 January 2014. Retrieved 15 January 2014.

External links

Media related to La Gomera Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• La Gomera Airport (official site) (in English)
• Information about La Gomera Airport in World Aero Data
• Meteorological and air navigation information about La Gomera Airport in Global Gazetteer Version 2.2
• La Gomera Airport Archived 16 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine in AZ World airports

• Spain
• Aviation

• Airports in the Canary Islands
• La Gomera
• Airports established in 1994
• 1994 establishments in Spain