| Faro Airport Aeroporto de Faro |
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| 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 | ||
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| Elevation AMSL | 8 m / 24 ft | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 10/28 | 2,490 | 8,169 | Asphalt |
| Statistics (2010) | |||
| Aircraft Movements | 39,629 | ||
| Passengers | 5,342,707 | ||
| Source: Portuguese AIP at EUROCONTROL[1] | |||
Faro Airport (Portuguese: Aeroporto de Faro) (IATA: FAO, ICAO: LPFR) is located 2.6 km (1.6 mi) to the west[1] 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.[2]
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.[3]
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More than ten car rental firms service the airport. The airport is also close to the A22 toll free highway, with connections throughout the Algarve and direct to Lisbon and Spain.
[2] Faro Airport is capable of handling six million passengers a year and is (2011) near to capacity. Faro Airport consists of:
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:
Note: † denotes charter airlines and their destinations.
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Aer Lingus | Dublin Seasonal: Belfast-International, Cork |
| Air Berlin | Berlin-Tegel, 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],[4] Birmingham, East Midlands |
| British Airways | London-Gatwick |
| British Airways operated by BA CityFlyer |
London-City |
| Brussels Airlines | Brussels |
| EasyJet | Belfast-International, Bristol, Glasgow-International, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted [ends 4 April 2012], London-Southend [begins 5 April 2012], Newcastle upon Tyne, Paris-Orly |
| EasyJet Switzerland | Seasonal: Geneva |
| Edelweiss Air † | Seasonal: Zurich |
| Enter Air | Katowice [5] |
| Flybe | Exeter, Southampton |
| Germania † | Seasonal Charter: Dublin [begins 20 May 2012], Shannon [begins 20 May 2012] |
| Germanwings | Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart |
| Jetairfly | Almeria, Brussels |
| Jet2.com | East Midlands, Glasgow-International, Leeds/Bradford, Newcastle upon Tyne Seasonal: Belfast-International [begins 26 May 2012], Blackpool, Edinburgh, Manchester |
| Lufthansa | Frankfurt, Munich |
| Luxair | Luxembourg |
| Monarch | Birmingham, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester |
| Niki | Seasonal: Vienna |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle | Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda |
| Orbest Orizonia Airlines † | Seasonal: Dublin [begins 20 May 2012] |
| Ryanair | Beauvais-Tillé, Bremen, Bristol, Brussels South-Charleroi, Cork, Doncaster/Sheffield [Ends in 2012], Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Glasgow-Prestwick, Hahn, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London-Stansted, Manchester, Porto, Weeze Seasonal: Billund, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Derry, Kerry, Knock, Maastricht, Madrid, Memmingen, Oslo-Rygge, Stockholm-Skavsta |
| SATA Air Açores | Funchal, Ponta Delgada |
| Scandinavian Airlines | Seasonal: Oslo-Gardermoen [begins 26 June 2012] |
| 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 [begins 31 May 2012], 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 [6] |
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