| Porto Santo Airport Aeroporto de Porto Santo |
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| IATA: PXO – ICAO: LPPS
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| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Military/Public | ||
| Serves | Porto Santo Island | ||
| Location | Vila Baleira | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 341 ft / 104 m | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 18/36 | 3,153 | 10,345 | Concrete |
| Statistics (2010) | |||
| Passengers | 103,337 | ||
| Aircraft Operations | 2,970 | ||
| Sources: World Aero Data[1] | |||
Porto Santo Airport (Portuguese: Aeroporto do Porto Santo) (IATA: PXO, ICAO: LPPS) is an airport located 1 km from Vila Baleira on Porto Santo Island, Madeira. It has a 3,153 meters (10,089 ft.) concrete runway, with no ILS equipment as of 2011, but with VOR and NDB approaches available.
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The island of Porto Santo was the first of the Madeira Islands to obtain an airport.
In 1959,[2] its runway was built with an initial length of 2000 meters (7200 ft.). The first aircraft to land at this airport was a TAP Portugal DC-4, on July 20th, 1960.
The airport's infrastructure has improved over time, with increases to the runway length and in ramp surface. The last improvements to the airport structure were finalized on August 28th, 1995, with the inauguration of a new passenger terminal and a new increase in runway length, which then reached 3,000 meters (10,800 ft.). The runway was also re-paved.
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Jetairfly | Seasonal: Brussels[3] |
| Neos | Seasonal: Milan-Malpensa |
| SATA Air Açores | Funchal |
| SATA International | Seasonal: Lisbon |
| TAP Portugal | Lisbon, Porto |
| Thomson Airways | Seasonal: London-Gatwick, Manchester [begins May 2012][4] |
| Travel Service | Seasonal: Warsaw[5] |
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