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Revision as of 19:38, 31 December 2007
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Madeira Airport (IATA: FNC, ICAO: LPMA), also known as Funchal Airport and Santa Catarina Airport, is an international airport located near Funchal, Madeira. The airport controls national and international air traffic of the island of Madeira.
The airport was once infamous for its short runway which, surrounded by high mountains and the ocean, made it a tricky landing for even the most experienced of pilots. The original runway was only 1,400 metres in length, but was extended by 400 metres after the TAP Air Portugal Flight 425 incident of 1977 and subsequently rebuilt in 2003, almost doubling the size of the runway, building it out over the ocean.
For the enlargement of the new runway the Funchal Airport has won the Outstanding Structures Award, given by International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE). The is considered to be the "Oscar" for engineering structures in Portugal.[1]
The project for the new airport was made by portuguese Segadães Tavares.
Airlines and destinations
- Aer Lingus (Dublin)
- Air Berlin (Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Nuremberg, Zürich)
- Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
- British Airways
- operated by GB Airways (London-Gatwick)
- Condor Airlines (Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Stuttgart)
- Easyjet (Bristol, London-Stansted, London-Gatwick[Begins 29 March])
- Europe Airpost (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- First Choice Airways (Cardiff, Exeter, London-Gatwick, Manchester,)
- Flyglobespan (Edinburgh)
- LTU International (Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich)
- Niki (Vienna)
- Santa Barbara Airlines (Caracas)
- SATA Air Açores (Porto Santo)
- SATA International (Lisbon, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Ponta Delgada, Porto)
- Sterling Airlines (Copenhagen)
- TAP Portugal (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Caracas, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow, Frankfurt, Madrid, Paris-Orly, Porto)
- operated by Portugália (Lisbon, Milan-Malpensa)
- Thomsonfly (Cardiff, Manchester, London-Gatwick)
- Thomas Cook Airlines (Belfast,Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands, Glasgow, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester)
- transavia.com (Amsterdam)
- TUIfly (Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hanover, Stuttgart)
- XL Airways (London-Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle)
References
- Madeira Airport (official site, in English)
- Template:WAD
External links
- Map from MultiMap
- Satellite image from TerraServer