Air traffic is set to increase by 17% this summer according to recent figures released. Over 17.000.000 seats have been reserved by tour operators and airlines over this years summer period. Tenerife has 6.937.340 seats (4.709.209 for the south and 1.846.602 for Los Rodeos) which is 39% of the air traffic for the islands. These figures represent a 11% increase for Reina Sofia and a 10% increase for Tenerife North when compared to 2009.

Fuerteventura has the highest gain with an increase of 30% (2.575.860 seats) while the increase for Lanzarote is 21% (3.240.996 seats).

The British market is expected to rise by 15%. Ryanair is to announce new flights between UK airports and Fuerteventura and Air Berlin has announced new routes between Germany and Austria to Gran Canaria.