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El Hierro Airport

ICAO GCHI27.8148°N 17.8871°W31 m / 103 ftMedium airport
On the map

El Hierro Airport (IATA: VDE, ICAO: GCHI) is a medium airport in El Hierro Island, Canary Islands, Spain. It opened in Dec 1972. It has one runway, 1,250 m (4,101 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by ENAIRE. In 2025 it handled 312 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1972–1972
DEC 1972
OpenedEl Hierro Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
16/34153° / 333° · LIT
LENGTH1,250 m4,101 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025
148K
147K
156K
200K
124K
268K
177K
234K
273K
301K
321K
312K
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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsBinter Canarias 2Canaryfly 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from VDE. From the Wikipedia article “El Hierro Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers312K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,324of 3,974 · #86 Africa · #31 ESLongest runway1,250 m4,101 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=9,252of 29,823 · =768 Africa · #64 ESElevation31 m103 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=36,676of 43,341 · #2,859 Africa · #272 ESAgeOpened 19722026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=6,633of 15,079 · =82 Africa · =50 ESRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =176 Africa · =25 ES
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

3 channels
A/DCANARIAS APP126.100
GNDGND121.600
TWRTWR118.100