Faro Airport (Portugal)

Faro Airport
Faro Airport; Aeroporto de Faro
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	22 ft / 7 m
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
Website	www.ana.pt
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For the airport in Yukon, Canada, see Faro Airport (Yukon).

Faro Airport (Portuguese: Aeroporto Internacional de Faro) is located about 4.4 mi (7.1 km) to the west 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 sixth most important airport after Madrid - Barajas, Barcelona - El Prat, Lisbon, Málaga and Alicante.

[edit] Terminal building

Faro Airport has a rather modern terminal building, fully eqquiped with double mutual load airbridges capable of handling aircraft such as the Boeing B747-400.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Departures terminal at Faro Airport

The forecourt of the arrival hall

Airlines	Destinations
Aer Lingus	Belfast-International, Cork, Dublin, London-Gatwick
Aigle Azur	Paris-Orly
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]
Bmibaby	Birmingham, Cardiff, East Midlands
British Airways	London-Gatwick
Brussels Airlines	Brussels
EasyJet	Belfast-International, Bristol, East Midlands, Glasgow-International, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Newcastle, Paris-Orly
Europe Airpost	Cork, Shannon
Finnair	Helsinki
Flybe	Exeter, Southampton
Flyglobespan	Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow-International
Germanwings	Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart
Hamburg International	Weeze
Iberworld	Cork, Shannon
Jetairfly	Almeria, Brussels
Jet2.com	Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester
Lufthansa	Frankfurt
Luxair	Luxembourg
Monarch Airlines	Birmingham, Cork, Dublin, Knock, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester, Shannon
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm-Arlanda
Palmair	Bournemouth
Ryanair	Bournemouth, Bremen, Brussels-Charleroi, Dublin, East Midlands, Frankfurt-Hahn, Glasgow-Prestwick, London-Stansted, Shannon, 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
Thomas Cook Airlines (Belgium)	Brussels
Thomson Airways	Bournemouth, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, London-Gatwick, Manchester
transavia.com	Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Eindhoven, Rotterdam
TUIfly	Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Stuttgart
TUIfly Nordic	Bergen, Copenhagen, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Helsinki, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda

[edit] 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.