Lajes Airport

Lajes Airport
Base Aérea das Lajes
Aeroporto das Lajes
Summary
Airport type Civil
Serves Praia da Vitória/Angra do Heroísmo
Location Lajes
Built 1934
Elevation AMSL 55 m / 180 ft
Coordinates 38°45′43″N 027°05′27″W / 38.76194°N 27.09083°W / 38.76194; -27.09083Coordinates: 38°45′43″N 027°05′27″W / 38.76194°N 27.09083°W / 38.76194; -27.09083
Map
TER
Location of Lajes Field in the Azores
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
15/33 3,314 10,873 Asphalt
Statistics (2016)
Passengers 631,236
Aircraft Operations 5,415
Metric tonnes of cargo 2,774
Source: Portuguese AIP[1]

Lajes Airport (IATA: TER, ICAO: LPLA) is located in the parish and Vila das Lajes, in the municipality of Praia da Vitória, on Terceira Island, in the Azores.

Overview

It is an airport infrastructure that, besides serving Terceira, is an access point to the outside of the internal air transport network of the Azores. It shares the runway and control and support structures (with the exception of the passenger terminal and the plate) with the military Lajes Field. It is the airport with the most extensive runway between the airports of the Azores, which measures about 4,000 meters in length. Aerogare Civil das Lajes (ACL) has a capacity of 750,000 passengers / year and 360 passengers / hour after the last re-qualification works.

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Air EuropaCharter: Madrid
Azores AirlinesBoston, Lisbon, Porto (resumes 30 October 2018)
Seasonal: Oakland, Toronto–Pearson
RyanairLisbon, Porto
SATA Air AçoresCorvo, Flores (PSO),[2] Graciosa (PSO),[2] Horta (PSO),[2] Pico (PSO),[2] Ponta Delgada (PSO),[2] São Jorge (PSO)[2]
TAP Air PortugalLisbon
TUI fly NetherlandsSeasonal: Amsterdam

References

  1. ↑ AIP Part 3 - AD 2 Aerodromes Archived 2012-04-15 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Inventory table" (PDF). ec.europa.eu.
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