Spain Tenerife South-Reina Sofia 22 Feb - 1 Mar 2019
by JLT EGCC74
We arrived at Tenerife South-Reina Sofia~Tenerife on time after an uneventful flight.
However during the trip, of which I was not expecting too much, I was fortunate to get a 5th floor pool / sea view at our hotel in Los Cristianos. This allowed me to see arrivals at Tenerife South and as they were using runway 08, which is from the South West. I could normally see the aircraft from 3500ft to about 1500ft and also saw a few helicopters as they hovered around Los Cristianos.
Over the week, as I relaxed on the 8th Floor adults only pool area, I tended to read my books and monitor the aircraft from 1000hrs till getting back to the room at around 1800hrs. I had a few breaks in between for little walks, so I was not monitoring aircraft all day. Over this time period I was seeing between 75 and 100 flights per day and in total I noted 502 flights. Once I removed the repeats, I actually saw 366 DIFFERENT aircraft during the period. Many were standard European bucket and spade airlines, however the odd business jets and the star, HK-5305 Airbus A320 214(SL) came in on the Saturday morning on delivery to Viva Air Colombia.