Improvements to Passenger Terminal at Tenerife

Terminal at Tenerife Sur Reina Sofia Airport. Photo: Guanxito2006Diario de Avisos report that next years budget includes almost 30 million euros - 29,973,000 to be exact, which is around 20 million pounds - for the enlargement and improvement of passenger terminal at Tenerife South's Reina Sofia airport.

The present arrivals area is to be increased, as is the departures, with a new building for departures, joined to the current one and that will provide space for a further 40 check in desks.

Other works include improvements to air conditioning, air traffic control, security and fireproofing. Tenerife South airport expects to handle over nine million passengers in 2007, a figure which ranks the airport as one of the top seven in Spain. If you add the four million who pass through Tenerife North airport, the island's airports are the 20th busiest in Europe.

The other 8,624,000 euros of the 38 million that the island will receive from the State in 2007, is destined to prepare for the construction of the port in Granadilla: the contentious project that is still awaiting a report on its environmental impact from the European Union and, which is rejected by many of the island's residents.

El puerto de Granadilla y el Reina Sofía recibirán 38 millones de euros