Faro Airport

For the airport in Yukon, Canada, see Faro Airport (Yukon).

Faro Airport Aeroporto de Faro
IATA: FAO – ICAO: LPFR
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		ANA Aeroportos de Portugal, S.A.
Operator		ANA - Aeroportos de Portugal, SA
Serves		Faro Algarve
Location		Faro
Hub for		Ryanair
Elevation AMSL		8 m / 24 ft
Coordinates		37°00′52″N 007°57′57″W
Website		www.ana.pt
Map
FAO Location within Portugal
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
10/28	2,490	8,169	Asphalt
Statistics (2011)
Aircraft Movements			40,596
Passengers			5,615,580
Source: Portuguese AIP at EUROCONTROL

Faro Airport (Portuguese: Aeroporto de Faro) (IATA: FAO, ICAO: LPFR) is located 2.6 km (1.6 mi) to the west of Faro, Portugal.

The airport gets very busy during the summer months, namely from March to October, to the extent that the airport becomes a slot coordinated airport.

A total of 5.4 million passengers used Faro in 2008. The airport became a hub for the first time in March 2010, when Ryanair decided to base seven of its aircraft there.

Transport

More than ten car rental firms service the airport. The airport is also close to the A22 highway, with connections throughout the Algarve and direct to Lisbon and Spain.

Infrastructure

Faro Airport is capable of handling six million passengers a year and is (2011) near to capacity. Faro Airport consists of:

• 22 stands of which 16 are remote.
• 60 check-in desks.
• 36 boarding gates.

Since its opening in 1966 Faro airport has had two major developments, the new passenger terminal building in 1989 and its enlargement in 2001.

The new development plan 2009-2013 has already begun. Faced with growing traffic demand and passenger safety and satisfaction needs, over the next four years Faro airport will undergo extensive improvements to runway and infrastructure as well as a widespread renovation of the airport terminal and commercial areas, namely:

• Increase of aircraft parking capacity from 22 to 33 positions, which will increase ATM’s from 22 to 30 per hour and passenger flow from 2400 to 3000 mov/h.
• Increase operational safety.
• Increase of airport capacity from 6 million to 8 million passengers per year.
• Functional and architectural modernisation of the airport terminal.
• Renovation and expansion of commercial areas.

Airlines and destinations

Departures (Partidas) terminal at Faro Airport.

The forecourt of the arrival hall (Chegadas).

Terminal building.

an Air Berlin Boeing 737-800 at Gate 24.

The main apron.

Jet2.com aircraft, Boeing 757-200 departs Faro.

Airlines	Destinations
Aer Lingus	Dublin Seasonal: Belfast-International, Cork
Air Berlin	Berlin-Brandenburg [begins 3 June 2012], Berlin-Tegel [ends 1 June 2012], Düsseldorf, Munich, Palma de Mallorca Seasonal: Hamburg, Nuremberg
Air Transat	Toronto-Pearson
Arkefly	Amsterdam
Austrian Airlines	Seasonal: Vienna
Bmibaby	Belfast-City [begins 25 March 2012], Birmingham, East Midlands
British Airways	London-Gatwick
British Airways operated by BA CityFlyer	London-City Seasonal:Edinburgh
Brussels Airlines	Brussels
EasyJet	Belfast-International, Bristol, Glasgow-International, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Southend [begins 5 April 2012], London-Stansted [ends 4 April 2012], Newcastle upon Tyne, Paris-Orly
EasyJet Switzerland	Seasonal: Geneva
Edelweiss Air	Seasonal Charter: Zurich
Enter Air	Katowice
Flybe	Exeter, Southampton
Germania	Seasonal Charter: Dublin, Shannon
Germanwings	Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart
Jetairfly	Almeria, Brussels
Jet2.com	East Midlands, Glasgow-International, Leeds/Bradford, Newcastle upon Tyne Seasonal: Belfast-International, Blackpool, Edinburgh, Manchester
Lufthansa	Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair	Luxembourg
Monarch	Scheduled Birmingham, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester Seasonal Charter: Cork
Niki	Seasonal: Vienna
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda
Orbest Orizonia Airlines	Seasonal Charter: Dublin
Ryanair	Beauvais-Tillé, Bremen, Bristol, Brussels South-Charleroi, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Glasgow-Prestwick, Hahn, Leeds/Bradford, Leipzig/Halle [begins 27 March 2012], Liverpool, London-Stansted, Manchester, Porto, Weeze Seasonal: Billund, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Cork, Derry, Kerry, Knock, Maastricht, Madrid, Memmingen, Oslo-Rygge, Stockholm-Skavsta
SATA Air Açores	Funchal, Ponta Delgada
Scandinavian Airlines	Seasonal: Oslo-Gardermoen
TAP Portugal	Lisbon
Thomas Cook Airlines	Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Midlands, Glasgow-International, Leeds, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium	Brussels
Thomson Airways	London-Gatwick, Manchester Seasonal: Belfast-International, Birmingham, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, Dublin, East Midlands, Exeter, Glasgow-International, London-Luton, London-Stansted , Newcastle upon Tyne
Transaero	Seasonal: Mosocow-Domododevo
Transavia.com	Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Groningen Seasonal: Rotterdam
TUIfly	Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Stuttgart
TUIfly Nordic	Bergen, Copenhagen, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Helsinki, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda
Sunweb XL operated by XL Airways Germany	Seasonal: Amsterdam
YES Airways	Poznan, Warsaw

Incidents and accidents

• On 21 December 1992, Martinair Flight 495 skidded off the runway in bad weather at Faro Airport killing 54 passengers and two crew out of a total of 340 people on board.

• On 29 December 2009, the terminal building flooded due to severe weather and leaks in the roof. This caused many problems inside the terminal, no flights were cancelled although some passengers were unable to check in due to the flooding.

• On 24 October 2011, an overnight storm had collapsed portions of terminal roofs and blown out most windows in the control tower. Four people were slightly and one severely injured.

External links

• Faro Airport (official site)
• Faro Airport Information (English)
• Accident history for FAO at Aviation Safety Network