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El Hierro VDE Airport Overview

El Hierro Airport VDE serves the Island of El Hierro, which is part of the Canary Island chain belonging to Spain.
The Airport is located in Valverde, the  island's capital city situated north-west of it.  As only inter-island flights operate from this Airport, you should arrive at the airport one hour prior to departure if you have to check your luggage, however, if you only have hand luggage, you can get your boarding pass half an hour prior to your scheduled flight.

With a short runway and an estimated 171,000 passengers a year, El Hierro Airport is served by Binter Canarias and TopFly.com airlines who  focus on domestic flights, mostly to/from Tenerife Norte Airport, and also to/from airports of Gran Canaria and La Palma.  

The passenger terminal at El Hierro Airport has a main hall with airline counters and ticket sale desks, as well as a cafeteria and a multi-shop.  Two information desks (one for Tourist and one for Aena information), and an ATM cash machine ‘Euro 6000 (Caja Canarias)’ are on level P0. For lost luggage, contact Binter Canarias at 928 579 602. Lost & Found is both on levels P0 & P1, tel. 922 553 705/718.

Parking at El Hierro Airport is available in the public car park, which has one disability parking space closest to the terminal. However, there is a separate reduced mobility car park with 2 available spaces.

To get from El Hierro Airport to your destination, you can rent a car (Avis, Europcar, Mercedes Barrera Casanas & Cicar), take a taxi (approx. fare to Valverde is 13 EUR); or take Bus Route 6 to Valverde (guaguas), which stops next to the access roundabout for the passenger terminal, and runs 5 times/day, 8:40am-5:30pm, or according to flight schedule. Tel: 922 550 7299.



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El Hierro VDE Airport Update History

  • Updated VDE Airports page - Apr 5, 2013
  • Updated VDE Food & Stores page - Mar 6, 2013
  • Updated VDE Direct Flights page - Jan 13, 2013