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Faro Airport

Coordinates: 37°00′52″N 007°57′57″W / 37.01444°N 7.96583°W / 37.01444; -7.96583
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For the airport in Yukon, Canada, see Faro Airport (Yukon).
Not to be confused with Paro Airport.
Faro Airport

Aeroporto Internacional de Faro
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerANA Aeroportos de Portugal, S.A.
OperatorANA Aeroportos de Portugal
ServesFaro, Portugal
Hub forRyanair
Elevation AMSL7 m / 23 ft
Coordinates37°00′52″N 007°57′57″W / 37.01444°N 7.96583°W / 37.01444; -7.96583
Websiteana.pt
Map
LPFR is located in Portugal
LPFR
LPFR
Location within Portugal
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
10/28 2,490 8,169 Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Aircraft Movements41,410
Passengers6,436,881
Sources: ANA [1]

Faro Airport (Portuguese: Aeroporto Internacional de Faro) (IATA: FAO, ICAO: LPFR), also known as Algarve Airport, is located 4 km (2.5 mi) to the west[1] of Faro in Portugal. The airport opened in July 1965.[2] A total of 6.4 million passengers used Faro airport in 2015. The airport became a hub for the first time in March 2010, when Ryanair decided to base seven of its aircraft there.[3] 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.[4]

Facilities

Faro Airport is capable of handling six million passengers a year. There are 22 stands of which 16 are remote, with 60 check-in desks and 36 boarding gates.[4]

Since its opening in 1966 Faro airport has had two major developments, the new passenger terminal building in 1989 and its enlargement in 2001. Faced with growing traffic demand and passenger safety and satisfaction needs, the development plan for 2009–2013, means Faro airport undergoes extensive improvements to runway and infrastructure as well as a widespread renovation of the airport terminal and commercial areas.[citation needed]

Airlines and destinations

Check-in area
The forecourt of the arrivals hall
Terminal building
AirlinesDestinations
Aer Lingus Dublin
Seasonal: Belfast-City, Cork, Shannon
Aigle Azur Seasonal: Paris-Orly
Air Berlin Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Zürich
Seasonal: Munich, Nuremberg, Vienna
Air Transat Seasonal: Toronto-Pearson
Azores Airlines Seasonal: Ponta Delgada
British Airways London-Gatwick
Seasonal: London-Heathrow
British Airways
operated by BA CityFlyer 		Seasonal: London-City, London-Stansted
Seasonal charter: Edinburgh
Brussels Airlines Seasonal: Brussels
Corendon Dutch Airlines Seasonal: Maastricht/Aachen (begins 19 April 2017)
easyJet Belfast-International, Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Southend, Lyon, Newcastle upon Tyne, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly, Toulouse
Seasonal: Berlin-Schönefeld
easyJet Switzerland Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva
Edelweiss Air Seasonal: Zürich
Enter Air Seasonal charter: Katowice, Warsaw-Chopin, Wrocław[5]
Eurowings Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart, Vienna
Seasonal: Hamburg
Eurowings
operated by Germanwings 		Seasonal: Berlin-Tegel (begins 9 April 2017),[6] Hannover (begins 26 March 2017)[6]
Flybe Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, Exeter, Southampton[7]
Germania Seasonal: Dresden (begins 26 March 2017),[8] Erfurt/Weimar (begins 26 March 2017),[8] Münster/Osnabrück (begins 22 June 2017)[8]
Seasonal charter: Jersey
Iberia
operated by Air Nostrum 		Seasonal: Madrid
Jet2.com Birmingham (begins 30 March 2017),[9] East Midlands, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, London-Stansted (begins 30 March 2017),[10] Newcastle upon Tyne
Seasonal: Belfast-International, Edinburgh, Manchester
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair Luxembourg[11]
Monarch Airlines Birmingham, Leeds/Bradford, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester
Niki Seasonal: Vienna
Norwegian Air Shuttle Copenhagen, London-Gatwick, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda
Primera Air Seasonal: Copenhagen
Ryanair Aberdeen (begins 2 May 2017),[12] Beauvais, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Charleroi, Cardiff (begins 27 March 2017), Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Frankfurt (begins 28 March 2017), Hahn, Hamburg (begins 1 May 2017), Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London-Luton (begins 1 May 2017), London-Stansted, Manchester, Marseille (begins 27 March 2017), Memmingen, Newquay (begins 28 March 2017), Porto, Prestwick, Weeze
Seasonal: Belfast International, Bremen, Cologne/Bonn, Cork, Kerry, Knock, Newcastle upon Tyne (begins 26 March 2017), Shannon, Warsaw-Modlin (begins 26 March 2017)
Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen
SmartWings
operated by Travel Service 		Seasonal charter: Brno Prague
TAP Portugal Lisbon
Thomas Cook Airlines Birmingham, Manchester
Thomson Airways Manchester
Seasonal: Aberdeen, Birmingham, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, Dublin, East Midlands, Exeter, London-Gatwick, Glasgow, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Newcastle upon Tyne
Transavia Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Munich, Paris-Orly, Rotterdam/The Hague
Seasonal: Groningen
Transavia France Lyon, Nantes
TUI Airlines Netherlands Amsterdam
TUIfly Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart
Volotea Seasonal: Bordeaux, Marseille, Nantes
Vueling Seasonal: Barcelona
Wizz Air Budapest (begins 10 April 2017)[13]

Destinations map

Statistics

Busiest routes from Faro Airport[14] [15]
Rank Country City Passengers (2011) Passengers (2010) Change Carriers
1  United Kingdom England London 1,187,220 1,147,624 Increase03.5% British Airways, BA CityFlyer, EasyJet, Monarch Airlines, Ryanair, Thomas Cook Airlines, Thomson Airways
2  United Kingdom  Manchester 341,384 281,133 Increase021.4% BA CityFlyer, Jet2.com, Monarch Airlines, Ryanair, Thomas Cook Airlines, Thomson Airways
3  Ireland Leinster Dublin 298,532 311,118 Decrease04.0% Aer Lingus, Ryanair, Thomson Airways
4  Netherlands  Amsterdam 228,683 199,288 Increase014.8% TUI Airlines Netherlands, Transavia
5  United Kingdom Lancashire Liverpool 224,902 176,362 Increase027.5% EasyJet, Ryanair
6  United Kingdom England Bristol 212,283 170,105 Increase024.8% EasyJet, Ryanair, Thomas Cook Airlines
7  United Kingdom West Midlands (county) Birmingham 210,805 198,175 Increase06.4% Monarch Airlines, Ryanair, Thomas Cook Airlines, Thomson Airways
8  Portugal Lisbon Lisbon 185,491 176,629 Increase05.0% TAP Portugal
9  United Kingdom Nottinghamshire Nottingham 171,746 147,142 Increase017.6%
10  United Kingdom Scotland Glasgow 166,828 128,454 Increase029.9% EasyJet, Jet2.com, Ryanair, Thomas Cook Airlines, Thomson Airways
11  United Kingdom Yorkshire Leeds/Bradford 128,586 116,683 Increase010.2% Jet2.com, Ryanair, Monarch Airlines
12  Belgium  Brussels 126,660 123,837 Increase02.3% Brussels Airlines, Jetairfly, Ryanair, Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium
13  United Kingdom Northern Ireland Belfast-International 126,454 145,978 Decrease013.4% Aer Lingus, EasyJet, Jet2.com, Thomson Airways
14  Germany North Rhine-Westphalia Düsseldorf 124,518 142,787 Decrease012.8% Air Berlin, TUIfly
15  Portugal Porto Porto 118,688 101,933 Increase016.4% Ryanair
16  France  Paris 117.044 82.785 Increase041.4% EasyJet, Aigle Azur
17  United Kingdom Northumberland Newcastle 116.080 95.465 Increase021.6% Easyjet, Thomas Cook, Thomson Airways
18  Germany Hesse Frankfurt 114.397 114.351 0.0% Lufthansa, TUIfly
19  Netherlands  Rotterdam 107.599 100.040 Increase07.6% Transavia
20  Netherlands  Eindhoven 105.805 76.064 Increase039.1% Ryanair, Transavia

Ground transport

Car

The airport is close to the A22 highway, with connections throughout the Algarve and direct to Lisbon and Spain. Faro airport has 3 different car parking areas. The closet parking area is called “Parking P0 / P1 – Classic”. While parking area P2 and parking area P3 are used for longer term car storage.[16]

Kiss and Fly is the name for a form of fast parking at the airport. You can drive to the airport to pick up or drop someone off free of charge for up to ten minutes. To drop off passengers, you can stop at the departures curbside and to pick up passengers, you enter the P2 Car Park.[17]

Bus

Airport bus routes 14 and 16 run each day between Faro Airport and Faro city centre bus station. From the bus station you can get connections to most other Portugal cities as well as to many Spanish destinations. The airport bus route is currently run by a company called "Proximo".

Railway

The nearest railway station is Faro station which is about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) away. There is no official shuttle between the airport and the railway station, however a taxi journey is estimated to take about 10 mins to complete.

Taxis

Public taxis are available from the airport and operate 24/7. There are several taxi ranks which you can use to hire a taxi from or you can use a free phone inside the airport to call a taxi. The majority of taxis at the airport will only carry upto four passengers if you require a bigger taxi it is best to use to the phone inside.

Car Rentals

There are quite a few car rental companies that can provide car hire service from the Airport. These companies are mainly located at "Parking P4 - Car Hire" you can also arrange for car hire from within the airport.

Accidents and incidents

  • On 21 December 1992, Martinair Flight 495 sustained a hard landing in bad weather at Faro Airport killing 54 passengers and two crew out of a total of 340 people on board.[citation needed]
  • 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.[citation needed]
  • 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.[18]

See also

References

  1. ^ AIP Part 3 – AD 2 Aerodromes
  2. ^ http://www.ana.pt/SiteCollectionDocuments/Negocios_Empresas/Sobre_Aeroportos/ALGARVE_PLANO_DIRECTOR.pdf
  3. ^ "Official Ryanair website - Cheap flights from Ireland - Ryanair".
  4. ^ a b "Faro Airport (FAO) - Unserved Routes in the Route Shop".
  5. ^ Enter Air
  6. ^ a b 2016, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Eurowings S17 planned new routes as of 11AUG16". {{cite web}}: |last= has numeric name (help)
  7. ^ "Flybe Timetable".
  8. ^ a b c 2016, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Germania S17 service expansions – update 1". {{cite web}}: |last= has numeric name (help)
  9. ^ "Jet2.com Adds Birmingham Routes in S17". routesonline. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  10. ^ http://www.jet2.com/timetable
  11. ^ Luxair flights to Faro are now operated all the year http://www.luxair.lu/cms/luxair.php?p=PT,67077,,,,,&lap=PRD,pt,2,LGSUPERCFF,LUX,FAO,20161210,20170128,true,O,1,0,0,0,REFINE_LUXAIR_PT,true,true,true,false,false,true,,,
  12. ^ https://www.aberdeenairport.com/about-us/media-centre/press-releases/news/2016/ryanair-launches-new-aberdeen-to-faro-route/
  13. ^ http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/268942/wizzair-expands-budapest-routes-in-s17/
  14. ^ ESTATÍSTICA DE TRÁFEGO AÉREO 2010
  15. ^ http://www.ana.pt/SiteCollectionDocuments/Negocios_Empresas/Sobre_Aeroportos/Relatorio%20Anual%20ANA_2011.pdf
  16. ^ Parking Information
  17. ^ Kiss & Fly
  18. ^ "Storm damages Faro airport, snarls flights". portugaldailyview.com. 24 October 2011. Retrieved 24 October 2011.

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