Gran Canaria Airport is the largest in Canary Islands. It was previously called Gando Airport and is operated by AENA. The IATA and ICAO codes are LPA and GCLP respectively and it’s about 18 km from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The air traffic could be EU, International or inter-island and these are handled by their respective zones.

The airport is the hub for Binter Canarias Airlines and Air Europa, Air Italy, Monarch Airlines, and Blue Panorama Airlines are the other major airlines at this airport. There were about 10.3 million passengers and 114, 300 flights in 2007. The airport opened in 1930 and is the fifth largest in Spain. In March 1977, 2 Boeing 747s crashed resulting in the death of 583 people. In 2008, a Spanair operated McDonnell Douglas MD-82 heading towards Gran Canaria was involved in a crash on take off at the Madrid airport; at least 150 of the 175 onboard were feared dead.

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