Faro Airport

Faro Airport Aeroporto Internacional de Faro
IATA: FAO – ICAO: LPFR
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	ANA Aeroportos de Portugal, S.A.
Operator	ANA Aeroportos de Portugal
Serves	Faro, Portugal
Elevation AMSL	7 m / 23 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
Website	ana.pt
Map
LPFR Location within Portugal
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 10/28 2,490 8,169 Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Aircraft Movements 41,410 Passengers 6,436,881
Sources: ANA

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, 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

Check-in area

The forecourt of the arrivals hall

Terminal building

Passenger

Airlines	Destinations
Aer Lingus	Dublin Seasonal: Belfast-City, Cork, Shannon
Aigle Azur	Seasonal: Paris-Orly
Air Berlin	Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Zürich Seasonal: Munich, Nuremberg,[5] Vienna
Air Transat	Seasonal: Toronto-Pearson
British Airways	London-Gatwick Seasonal: London-Heathrow
British Airways operated by BA CityFlyer	Seasonal: London-City, London-Stansted (begins 29 May 2016)[6] Seasonal charter: Edinburgh
Brussels Airlines	Seasonal: Brussels
easyJet	Belfast-International, Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Southend, Lyon,[7] Newcastle upon Tyne, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly, Toulouse (begins 4 May 2016) Seasonal: Berlin-Schönefeld
easyJet Switzerland	Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva
Edelweiss Air	Seasonal: Zürich
Enter Air	Seasonal charter: Katowice, Warsaw-Chopin, Wrocław[8]
Eurowings	Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart, Vienna Seasonal: Hamburg
Flybe	Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, Exeter, Southampton[9]
Iberia operated by Air Nostrum	Seasonal: Madrid
Jet2.com	East Midlands, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, Newcastle upon Tyne Seasonal: Belfast-International, Edinburgh, Manchester
Lufthansa	Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair	Seasonal: Luxembourg Seasonal charter: Dublin
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 (begins 19 May 2016)[10]
Ryanair	Beauvais, Birmingham, Bristol, Charleroi, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London-Stansted, Manchester, Memmingen, Porto, Prestwick,[11] Weeze Seasonal: Bournemouth, Bremen, Cologne/Bonn, Cork, Derry, Hahn, Kerry, Knock, Shannon
Scandinavian Airlines	Seasonal: 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, Rotterdam/The Hague Seasonal: Groningen
Transavia France	Lyon, Nantes
TUI Airlines Netherlands	Amsterdam
TUIfly	Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart
Volotea	Seasonal: Bordeaux (begins 2 June 2016), Marseille[12] Nantes[12]
Vueling	Seasonal: Barcelona
XL Airways France	Seasonal: Lille

Statistics

Busiest routes from Faro Airport^{[13] [14]}

Rank	Country	City	Passengers (2011)	Passengers (2010)	Change	Carriers
1	United Kingdom	London	1,187,220	1,147,624	03.5%	British Airways, BA CityFlyer, EasyJet, Monarch Airlines, Ryanair, Thomas Cook Airlines, Thomson Airways
2	United Kingdom	Manchester	341,384	281,133	021.4%	Jet2.com, Monarch Airlines, Ryanair, Thomas Cook Airlines, Thomson Airways, BA CityFlyer
3	Ireland	Dublin	298,532	311,118	04.0%	Aer Lingus, Ryanair, Thomson Airways
4	Netherlands	Amsterdam	228,683	199,288	014.8%	TUI Airlines Netherlands, Transavia
5	United Kingdom	Liverpool	224,902	176,362	027.5%	EasyJet, Ryanair
6	United Kingdom	Bristol	212,283	170,105	024.8%	EasyJet, Ryanair, Thomas Cook Airlines
7	United Kingdom	Birmingham	210,805	198,175	06.4%	Monarch Airlines, Ryanair, Thomas Cook Airlines, Thomson Airways
8	Portugal	Lisbon	185,491	176,629	05.0%	TAP Portugal
9	United Kingdom	Nottingham	171,746	147,142	017.6%
10	United Kingdom	Glasgow	166,828	128,454	029.9%	EasyJet, Jet2.com, Ryanair, Thomas Cook Airlines, Thomson Airways
11	United Kingdom	Leeds/Bradford	128,586	116,683	010.2%	Jet2.com, Ryanair
12	Belgium	Brussels	126,660	123,837	02.3%	Brussels Airlines, Jetairfly, Ryanair, Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium
13	United Kingdom	Belfast-International	126,454	145,978	013.4%	Aer Lingus, EasyJet, Jet2.com, Thomson Airways
14	Germany	Düsseldorf	124,518	142,787	012.8%	Air Berlin, TUIfly
15	Portugal	Porto	118,688	101,933	016.4%	Ryanair
16	France	Paris	117.044	82.785	041.4%	EasyJet, Aigle Azur
17	United Kingdom	Newcastle	116.080	95.465	021.6%	Easyjet, Thomas Cook, Thomson Airways
18	Germany	Frankfurt	114.397	114.351	0.0%	Lufthansa, TUIfly
19	Netherlands	Rotterdam	107.599	100.040	07.6%	Transavia
20	Netherlands	Eindhoven	105.805	76.064	039.1%	Ryanair, Transavia

Ground transport

Several 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.

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.
• 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.^[15]

See also

• Transport in Portugal

References

1. AIP Part 3 - AD 2 Aerodromes
2. http://www.ana.pt/SiteCollectionDocuments/Negocios_Empresas/Sobre_Aeroportos/ALGARVE_PLANO_DIRECTOR.pdf
3. Ryanair base
4. Info
5. http://airlineroute.net/2016/03/15/ab-europe-s16/
6. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/12147808/British-Airways-to-fly-from-Stansted-for-the-first-time.html
7. http://www.air-journal.fr/2015-10-27-easyjet-un-lyon-faro-au-printemps-2016-5152568.html/
8. Enter Air
9. http://www.flybe.com/timetableClassic/timetable.jsp?selDep=FAO&selDest=XXX
10. http://airlineroute.net/2016/04/25/pf-s16/
11. http://airlineroute.net/2016/02/28/fr-glapik-w16/
12. http://www.volotea.com/it/?&esvadt=999999-672278-99826-1&esvq=volotea&esvrq=volotea&esvcrea=7116437478&esvd=c&esvt=11520-MSITe&esvaid=50027
13. ESTATÍSTICA DE TRÁFEGO AÉREO 2010
14. http://www.ana.pt/SiteCollectionDocuments/Negocios_Empresas/Sobre_Aeroportos/Relatorio%20Anual%20ANA_2011.pdf
15. "Storm damages Faro airport, snarls flights". portugaldailyview.com. 24 October 2011. Retrieved 24 October 2011.

External links

Media related to Faro Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Accident history for FAO at Aviation Safety Network