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Los Rodeos on the up and up

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
Tenerife’s lesser-know Los Rodeos airport in the north of the island is undergoing a facelift. Los Rodeos is only six miles from the Tenerife capital of Santa Cruz and 12 miles from the popular resort of Puerto de la Cruz and the historic 500-year-old town of La Orotava. A new VIP lounge opened recently, part of an ongoing programme of improvements soon to include a new transit lounge, new ticket sales desks and the expansion of domestic and international arrivals areas. Despite being the first airport to open in Tenerife way back in 1930, Los Rodeos was forced to take a back seat as far as tourism was concerned when Reina Sofia airport opened in the south of the island in 1978. But after a sharp increase in passenger numbers ...