Faro Airport

Faro Airport
Aeroporto Internacional de Faro
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner ANA Aeroportos de Portugal, S.A.
Operator ANA Aeroportos de Portugal
Serves Faro, Algarve, Portugal
Elevation AMSL 7 m / 23 ft
Coordinates 37°00′52″N 007°57′57″W / 37.01444°N 7.96583°W / 37.01444; -7.96583Coordinates: 37°00′52″N 007°57′57″W / 37.01444°N 7.96583°W / 37.01444; -7.96583
Website ana.pt
Map
LPFR
Location within Portugal
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
10/28 2,490 8,169 Asphalt
Statistics (2017)
Passengers 8,722,668
Passengers change 16-17 Increase14.3%
Aircraft Movements 53,626
Movements change 16-17 Increase 11.9%
Sources: ANAC , ANA

Faro International 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] It gets very busy during the summer months, namely from March to October, to the extent that it 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 saw Faro airport undergo extensive improvements to runway and infrastructure, as well as a widespread renovation of the airport terminal and commercial areas.

Along with the airports in Lisbon, Porto, Ponta Delgada, Santa Maria, Horta, Flores, Madeira, and Porto Santo, the airport's concessions to provide support to civil aviation were conceded to ANA Aeroportos de Portugal on 18 December 1998, under provisions of decree 404/98. With this concession, ANA became responsible for the planning, development and construction of future infrastructure.[5]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

The following airlines operate regular scheduled passenger flights at Faro Airport:

AirlinesDestinations
Aer Lingus Dublin
Seasonal: Belfast–City, Cork, Shannon
Aigle Azur Seasonal: Paris–Orly
Air Transat Seasonal: Toronto–Pearson
Azores Airlines Seasonal: Ponta Delgada
British Airways London–Gatwick
Seasonal: London–City, London–Heathrow, London–Stansted
Brussels Airlines Seasonal: Brussels
Corendon Airlines Brussels
Corendon Dutch Airlines Seasonal: Amsterdam, Maastricht/Aachen
easyJet Belfast–International, Berlin–Schönefeld, Bordeaux, Bristol, Glasgow, Lille, Liverpool, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, London–Southend, Lyon, Manchester (begins 2 November 2018),[6] Milan–Malpensa, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly, Toulouse
Seasonal: Berlin–Tegel, Naples[7]
easyJet Switzerland Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva
Edelweiss Air Seasonal: Zürich
Eurowings Cologne/Bonn, Munich, Stuttgart, Vienna
Seasonal: Berlin–Tegel, Hamburg, Hannover
Flybe Cardiff
Seasonal: Doncaster Sheffield, Exeter, Southampton
Germania Seasonal: Berlin–Tegel, Dresden, Düsseldorf,[8] Erfurt/Weimar, Friedrichshafen, Münster/Osnabrück, Nuremberg
Germania Flug Seasonal: Zürich
Iberia Seasonal: Madrid
Jet Time Seasonal: Helsinki
Jet2.com Birmingham, Leeds/Bradford, London–Stansted, Manchester
Seasonal: Belfast–International, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle upon Tyne
Laudamotion Seasonal: Berlin–Tegel, Düsseldorf
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair Luxembourg
Seasonal charter: Dublin[9]
Norwegian Air Shuttle Bergen, Stockholm–Arlanda
Seasonal: Copenhagen, London–Gatwick, Oslo–Gardermoen
Ryanair Beauvais, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Charleroi, Cork, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Frankfurt, Hahn, Hamburg, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London–Luton, London–Stansted, London–Southend (begins 3 April 2019), Manchester, Marseille, Memmingen, Newcastle upon Tyne, Newquay, Porto, Prestwick, Weeze
Seasonal: Aberdeen, Belfast–International, Bergamo (begins 28 October 2018),[10] Berlin–Schönefeld (begins 29 October 2018),[10] Bremen, Cardiff, Cologne/Bonn, Kerry, Knock, Shannon, Warsaw–Modlin, Wrocław
Scandinavian Airlines Aarhus (begins 6 April 2019)[11], Copenhagen, Gothenburg (resumes 6 April 2019)[11] Stockholm–Arlanda
Seasonal: Oslo–Gardermoen (resumes 9 August 2019)[11]
SmartWings Seasonal: Lille
TAP Air Portugal Lisbon
Thomas Cook Airlines Seasonal: Birmingham, Manchester
Transavia Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Rotterdam, Groningen
Transavia France Paris–Orly, Lyon, Nantes
TUI Airways Seasonal: Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster Sheffield, East Midlands, Exeter, Leeds/Bradford, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Seasonal charter: Dublin[12]
TUI fly Belgium Seasonal: Brussels, Ostend/Bruges, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
TUI fly Deutschland Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart
TUI fly Netherlands Amsterdam
Volotea Seasonal: Bordeaux, Marseille, Nantes, Verona
Vueling Seasonal: Barcelona
Wizz Air Seasonal: Budapest, Katowice

Ground transport

Inside the arrivals hall at Faro airport
The forecourt of the arrivals hall
Terminal building

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 closest parking area is called “Parking P0 / P1 – Classic”, used for short-term visitors, while parking areas P2 and P3 are used for longer term car storage.[13]

Kiss and Fly is the name for a form of fast parking at the airport. One can drive to the airport to pick up or drop someone off free of charge for up to ten minutes. To drop off passengers, one can stop at the departures curbside and to pick up passengers, you enter the P2 Car Park.[14]

Bus

Airport bus routes 14 and 16 run each day between Faro Airport and Faro city centre bus station. From the bus station there are connections to most other Portuguese 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 5.7 kilometres (3.5 mi) away and is located close to Faro city centre bus station.[15]

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 curbsidetaxis at the airport will only carry up to 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". Car hire can also be arranged from within the airport.

Accolades

In 2012 Airports Council International gave Faro Airport the title of Best Improvement in Europe.[16]

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.[17]
  • 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 injured, and one severely.[18]

See also

References

  1. ↑ AIP Part 3 – AD 2 Aerodromes Archived 15 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 July 2014. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "Official Ryanair website - Cheap flights from Ireland - Ryanair".
  4. 1 2 "Faro Airport (FAO) - Unserved Routes in the Route Shop".
  5. ↑ "The history of Porto Airport - Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport". Porto-Airport-Car-Rental.com. 1 February 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  6. ↑ "New routes from the UK". www.easyjet.com.
  7. ↑ "EasyJet lança novos voos para Ibiza, Nápoles e Zurique - Ambitur". www.ambitur.pt.
  8. ↑ "Germania - Book cheap flights - flygermania.com". www.FlyGermania.com. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  9. ↑ "Flight Only". Sunway. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  10. 1 2 https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/280884/ryanair-w18-network-additions/?highlight=faro
  11. 1 2 3 https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/280960/sas-s19-european-network-additions/?highlight=faro
  12. ↑ "Flight Timetable". TUI Airways. 1 September 2018.
  13. ↑ "Faro airport transfers - Faro taxis - best taxi rates online". Cheap-Taxis.com. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  14. ↑ Portugal, ANA - Aeroportos de (8 July 2016). "Kiss & Fly - Faro Airport". AeroportoFaro.pt. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  15. ↑ "Google Maps". Google Maps.
  16. ↑ List of Airport Service Quality Award winners#5-15 million
  17. ↑ "Final Report on the Accident Occurring at Faro Airport - Portugal on 21 December 1992" (PDF).
  18. ↑ "Storm damages Faro airport, snarls flights". portugaldailyview.com. 24 October 2011. Retrieved 24 October 2011.

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