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For the airport in Yukon, Canada, see Faro Airport (Yukon).

Faro Airport Aeroporto de Faro

IATA: FAO – ICAO: LPFR
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		O estado nacional de Portugal
Operator		ANA Aeroportos de Portugal
Serves		Faro Algarve
Location		Faro, Portugal
Hub for		Ryanair (from 27 March)
Elevation AMSL		8 m / 24 ft
Coordinates		37°00′52″N 007°57′57″W / 37.01444°N 7.96583°W / 37.01444; -7.96583 (Faro Airport)Coordinates: 37°00′52″N 007°57′57″W / 37.01444°N 7.96583°W / 37.01444; -7.96583 (Faro Airport)
Website		www.ana.pt
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
10/28	2,490	8,169	Asphalt
Statistics (2008)
Aircraft Movements			39,789
Passengers			5,447,200
Source: Portuguese AIP at EUROCONTROL^[1]

Faro Airport (Portuguese: Aeroporto Internacional de Faro) is located 2.6 km (1.6 mi) to the west^[1] of Faro, Portugal.

This airport is commonly used by tourists on holiday in the Algarve but is sharply increasing its influence throughout the business community of entire southwest Iberian Peninsula as a direct consequence of being already one of Europe's leading low cost hub airports. The majority of aircraft approach the runway directly from the direction of the Atlantic Ocean as inland the land rises sharply. A reciprocal heading is usually used for departures.

A total of 5.6 million passengers flew from Faro in 2008. It is Portugal's second International gateway, after Lisbon's International airport and mainland Iberian Peninsula's sixth most important airport after Madrid - Barajas, Barcelona - El Prat, Lisbon, Málaga and Alicante.

1 Terminal building
2 Airlines and destinations
3 Incidents and accidents
4 References
5 External links

Terminal building

Faro Airport has a rather modern terminal building, fully equipped with double mutual load airbridges capable of handling aircraft such as the Boeing 747-400

Airlines and destinations

Departures terminal at Faro Airport

The forecourt of the arrival hall

Airlines	Destinations
Aer Lingus	Belfast-International [seasonal], Cork [seasonal], Dublin
Air Berlin	Berlin-Tegel [seasonal], Cologne/Bonn [begins 2 May, seasonal], Dresden [seasonal], Düsseldorf [seasonal], Hamburg [seasonal], Leipzig/Halle [seasonal], Münster/Osnabrück [seasonal], Munich [seasonal], Nuremberg [seasonal], Paderborn/Lippstadt [seasonal], Palma de Mallorca
Arkefly	Amsterdam
Astraeus Airlines	Cork [begins 6 May;seasonal]
Austrian Airlines	Vienna [seasonal]
BMI	Dublin
Bmibaby	Birmingham, Cardiff, East Midlands
British Airways	London-Gatwick
Brussels Airlines	Brussels
EasyJet	Belfast-International, Bristol, Doncaster/Sheffield [begins 19 April], Glasgow-International, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Newcastle upon Tyne, Paris-Orly
Flybe	Exeter, Southampton
Germanwings	Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart
Iberworld	Belfast-International [seasonal]
Jetairfly	Almeria, Brussels
Jet2.com	Blackpool [seasonal], Edinburgh [begins 20 May], Leeds/Bradford, Manchester [seasonal]
Lufthansa	Frankfurt, Munich [resumes 27 March]
Luxair	Luxembourg
Monarch Airlines	Birmingham, Cork [seasonal], Dublin [seasonal], Knock [seasonal], London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester, Shannon [seasonal]
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda
Palmair	Bournemouth
Primera Air	Dublin
Ryanair	Billund [begins 30 March], Birmingham [begins 28 March], Bournemouth, Bremen, Bristol [begins 31 March], Brussels South-Charleroi, Cork [begins 1 June; seasonal], Derry [begins 1 April; seasonal], Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh [begins 2 May], Eindhoven [begins 27 March], Glasgow-Prestwick, Hahn, Kerry [begins 31 March; seasonal], Knock [begins 30 March; seasonal], Leeds/Bradford [begins 26 March], Liverpool, London-Stansted, Lübeck [begins 1 May], Maastricht [begins 27 April], Madrid [begins 27 April], Marseille [begins 30 March], Memmingen [begins 27 April], Milan-Orio al Serio [begins 25 March], Oslo-Rygge [begins 1 April], Paris-Beauvais [begins 27 April], Porto, Shannon [ends 27 March], Stockholm-Skavsta [begins 30 March], Weeze
SATA International	Toronto
Swiss International Air Lines	Zürich
TAP Portugal	Lisbon
Thomas Cook Airlines	Belfast-International, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Midlands, Glasgow-International, Leeds, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium	Brussels
Thomson Airways	Belfast-International [seasonal], Birmingham [begins 1 April, seasonal], Bournemouth, Bristol [begins 6 May, seasonal], Cardiff [seasonal], Doncaster/Sheffield [seasonal], East Midlands [begins 1 April, seasonal], Exeter [begins 2 May, seasonal], Glasgow-International [begins 6 May, seasonal], London-Gatwick, London-Luton [begins 2 May, seasonal], London-Stansted [begins 2 May, seasonal], Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne [begins 1 April, seasonal]
Transavia.com	Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Groningen, Rotterdam [seasonal]
Transavia.com Denmark	Copenhagen
TUIfly	Düsseldorf [seasonal], Frankfurt [seasonal], Hanover [seasonal], Munich [seasonal], Stuttgart [seasonal]
TUIfly Nordic	Bergen, Copenhagen, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Helsinki, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda

Incidents and accidents

On 21 December 1992 a Martinair Flight 495 skidded off the runway in bad weather at Faro Airport killing 54 passengers & 2 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, but no flights were cancelled or delayed.