What you can see on the Lanzarote Airport webcams
The first camera, from WingCam, tracks each aircraft in turn and shows its flight details on screen: airline, aircraft and route. The second is a fixed view from high above the airport, over the aprons and the runway to the houses of Playa Honda and the Atlantic. Between them you can watch for a particular flight and see the weather you are flying into.
Lanzarote Airport webcam: landings and take-offs, live
This camera, run by WingCam, follows the action: it swings and zooms to keep each aircraft in the frame as it lands, taxis and takes off, so one moment it shows a plane against the clouds on final approach and the next a Binter turboprop parked in front of the terminal, with the airport's name and the arrivals hall behind. In a box in the top corner it prints the details of the flight it is watching: the airline, the aircraft type and the route, from Lanzarote to Tenerife or Gran Canaria, or in from the UK.
It is the camera to keep open when you are waiting for a particular flight, because when a plane comes in it is usually on screen.
Lanzarote Airport webcam: the runway from above
From high above the airfield, this camera looks along the runway towards the sea. In front are the airport buildings and the aprons, with aircraft waiting and taxiing; beyond the runway the white houses of Playa Honda line the shore, and the Atlantic fills the horizon.
It is a fixed, wide view: less close to the planes than the other camera, but good for the weather over the airport and the coast, from the colour of the sea to the haze of a calima day.
The airport
There is a single runway, laid out along the shore, and a terminal for international and mainland flights. Most of the time the trade wind blows from the north-east and the planes land and take off into it. The busiest months for British travellers are in the winter, when Lanzarote is one of the warmest places within a few hours' flight of home, and at Easter and in the summer holidays.
Time and weather
Lanzarote is on the same time as the UK and Ireland all year. The island is dry and windy: a hazy, yellowish sky means calima, dust blown over from the Sahara, which can delay flights when it is thick.
Getting from the airport
Puerto del Carmen, the island's biggest resort, is about 6 miles (10 km) away, Costa Teguise about 9 miles (15 km) and Playa Blanca about 22 miles (35 km). There are buses to Arrecife and the main resorts, and taxis and hire cars at the terminal.
