It is situated in El Matorral, 5 km (3 mi) southwest[2][3] of the capital city Puerto del Rosario.

The airport has flight connections to over 80 destinations worldwide, and over 5.6 million passengers passed through it in 2019.

[citation needed] In 1973, El Matorral Airport began to operate its first flights to European countries with the airline Condor, which linked the German city of Düsseldorf directly with Puerto del Rosario.

[citation needed] In 1994, construction started on a new terminal building, an aircraft apron, a taxiway parallel to the runway, a power plant and a new access road.

The works were completed with the extension of the car park and a detour on the Puerto de Rosario–Matorral road adding some two kilometres, of which 1.5 are double lane.