| Faro Airport Aeroporto de Faro |
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| IATA: FAO – ICAO: LPFR | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Owner | O estado nacional de Portugal | ||
| Operator | ANA Aeroportos de Portugal | ||
| Serves | Faro Algarve | ||
| Location | Faro, Portugal | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 8 m / 24 ft | ||
| Coordinates | 37°00′52″N 007°57′57″W / 37.01444°N 7.96583°WCoordinates: 37°00′52″N 007°57′57″W / 37.01444°N 7.96583°W | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 10/28 | 2,490 | 8,169 | Asphalt |
| Source: Portuguese AIP at EUROCONTROL[1] | |||
Faro Airport (Portuguese: Aeroporto Internacional de Faro) is located 2.6 km (1.6 mi) to the west[1] of Faro, Portugal.
This airport is commonly used by tourists on holiday in the Algarve but is sharply increasing its influence throughout the business community of entire southwest Iberian Peninsula as a direct consequence of being already one of Europe's leading low cost hub airports. The majority of aircraft approach the runway directly from the direction of the Mediterranean as inland the land rises sharply. A reciprocal heading is usually used for departures.
A total of 5.6 million passengers flew from Faro in 2008. It is Portugal's second International gateway, after Lisbon's International airport and mainland Iberian Peninsula's sixth most important airport after Madrid - Barajas, Barcelona - El Prat, Lisbon, Málaga and Alicante.
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Terminal building
Faro Airport has a rather modern terminal building, fully equipped with double mutual load airbridges capable of handling aircraft such as the Boeing 747-400
Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Aer Lingus | Belfast-International [resumes 28 march], Cork [seasonal], Dublin, London-Gatwick |
| Air Berlin | Berlin-Tegel, Dresden [seasonal], Düsseldorf, Hamburg [seasonal], Leipzig/Halle [seasonal], Münster/Osnabrück [seasonal], Munich, Nuremberg [seasonal], Paderborn/Lippstadt [seasonal], Palma de Mallorca |
| Arkefly | Amsterdam |
| Austrian Airlines | Vienna [seasonal] |
| BMI | Dublin |
| Bmibaby | Birmingham, Cardiff, East Midlands |
| British Airways | London-Gatwick |
| Brussels Airlines | Brussels |
| EasyJet | Belfast-International, Bristol, Doncaster/Sheffield [begins 19 April], East Midlands [ends 5 January], Glasgow-International, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Newcastle upon Tyne, Paris-Orly |
| Europe Airpost | Cork [seasonal], Shannon [seasonal] |
| Flybe | Exeter, Southampton |
| Flyglobespan | Aberdeen [seasonal], Edinburgh, Glasgow-International |
| Germanwings | Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart |
| Iberworld | Belfast [seasonal], Cork [seasonal], |
| Jetairfly | Almeria, Brussels |
| Jet2.com | Blackpool [seasonal], Edinburgh [begins 20 May], Leeds/Bradford, Manchester [seasonal] |
| Lufthansa | Frankfurt |
| Luxair | Luxembourg |
| Monarch Airlines | Birmingham, Cork [seasonal], Dublin [seasonal], Knock [seasonal], London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester, Shannon [seasonal] |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle | Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda |
| Palmair | Bournemouth |
| Primera Air | Dublin |
| Ryanair | Bournemouth, Bremen, Bristol [begins 31 March], Brussels South-Charleroi, Dublin, East Midlands, Glasgow-Prestwick, Hahn, Leeds/Bradford [begins 26 March], Liverpool, London-Stansted, Porto, Shannon [ends 27 March], Weeze |
| SATA International | Toronto |
| Swiss International Air Lines | Zürich |
| TAP Portugal | Lisbon |
| Thomas Cook Airlines | Belfast-International, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Midlands, Glasgow-International, Leeds, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Thomas Cook Airlines (Belgium) | Brussels |
| Thomson Airways | Belfast-International, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, Dublin, London-Gatwick, Manchester |
| transavia.com | Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Eindhoven, Rotterdam |
| TUIfly | Düsseldorf [seasonal], Frankfurt [seasonal], Hanover [seasonal], Munich [seasonal], Stuttgart [seasonal] |
| TUIfly Nordic | Bergen, Copenhagen, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Helsinki, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda |
Incidents and accidents
On 21 December 1992 a Martinair Flight 495 skidded off the runway in bad weather at Faro Airport killing 54 passengers & 2 crew out of a total of 340 people on Board.
References
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Faro Airport |
- Faro Airport (official site)
- Accident history for FAO at Aviation Safety Network
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