Gran Canaria Airport

Introduction

Gran Canaria Airport (LPA) is the busiest of the Canary Islands and dozens of airlines serve the island. Budget airline Ryanair has flights to a number of cities in Europe, while German based Condor and Air Berlin have flights as well.

For more information about other airports throughout the world, also see the list of airports.

Getting there and away

The airport can easily reached by taking the GC1 motorway. Rental cars, taxis and some buses are available. Many tourists have a transfer included in their package holiday though.

Getting around

Airlines, Destinations and Terminals

There are two terminals: terminal A for EU and mainland flights, terminal B-C for inter-island flights and other destinations...officially. As you see below, this is not always the case. For more information about airlines, also see the list of airlines and the details about flying with budget airlines.

Terminal A

• Aer Lingus - Dublin
• Air Berlin - Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Erfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig/Halle, Münster/Osnabrück, Nuremberg, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Zürich
• Air Europa - Barcelona, Bilbao, Cork, Lanzarote, Madrid, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Tenerife-South
• Air Italy - Milan-Malpensa
• Arkefly - Amsterdam
• Austrian Airlines - Linz, Salzburg, Vienna
• Blue Panorama Airlines - Milan-Malpensa
• Condor - Berlin-Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Stuttgart
• EasyJet - Geneva, London-Gatwick, Basel/Mulhouse
• EuroAtlantic Airways - Lisbon
• Europe Airpost - Dublin
• Finnair - Helsinki
• Germanwings - Cologne/Bonn, Hanover
• Hamburg International - Berlin-Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn, Friedrichshafen, Saarbrücken, Weeze
• Iberia - Dakar, Madrid
• Iberia operated by Air Nostrum - Santander, Valencia
• Iberworld - Basel/Mulhouse, Cork, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Turku
• Islas Airways - El Aaiún, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Marrakech, Tenerife-North
• Jet2.com - Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
• Jetairfly - Brussels, Charleroi, Liege, Ostend
• Mauritania Airways - Dakar, Nouadhibu, Nouakchott
• Monarch Airlines Scheduled - Birmingham, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester; Chartered - Dublin
• Naysa - El Hierro, Lanzarote, Tenerife-North
• Neos - Bologna, Milan-Malpensa, Verona
• Niki - Salzburg, Vienna
• Norwegian Air Shuttle - Aalborg, Bergen, Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stavanger, Stockholm-Arlanda, Trondheim
• Novair - Stockholm-Arlanda
• Primera Air - Helsinki
• Ryanair - Barcelona, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Brussels South-Charleroi, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Girona, Glasgow-Prestwick, Hahn, Liverpool, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Madrid, Pisa, Porto, Weeze
• SATA Air - Açores Funchal
• Scandinavian Airlines - Oslo-Gardermoen
• Spanair - Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid, Málaga, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Vigo
• Star1 Airlines - Vilnius
• Swiss International Air Lines - Zürich
• TACV Cabo Verde Airlines - Praia
• Thomas Cook Airlines - Belfast-International, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Midlands, Exeter, Glasgow-International, Leeds/Bradford, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
• Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia - Billund, Copenhagen, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Helsinki, Oslo-Gardermoen, Malmö, Stockholm-Arlanda,Stockholm Skavsta
• Thomson Airways - Belfast-International, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, Dublin, East Midlands, Exeter, Glasgow-International, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
• Transavia.com - Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Groningen, Maastricht, Rotterdam
• Transavia.com Denmark - Billund, Copenhagen
• Transavia.com France - Paris-Orly
• Travel Service Airlines operated by Smart Wings - Prague
• TUIfly - Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Münster/Osnabrück, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart
• TUIfly - Nordic Oslo-Gardermoen, Helsinki
• Viking Airlines - Glasgow-International, London-Gatwick, Manchester
• Vueling - Barcelona, Malaga, Seville

Terminal B-C

• Binter Canarias - El Aaiún, El Hierro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, La Gomera, Lanzarote, La Palma, Layounne, Marrakech, Tenerife-North, Tenerife-South
• Edelweiss Air - Tenerife-South, Zürich

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