| Madeira Airport Aeroporto da Madeira |
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| IATA: FNC – ICAO: LPMA | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Aeroportos da Madeira | ||
| Location | Santa Catarina, Santa Cruz | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 192 ft / 59 m | ||
| Coordinates | 32°41′52″N 16°46′28″W / 32.69778°N 16.77444°WCoordinates: 32°41′52″N 16°46′28″W / 32.69778°N 16.77444°W | ||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 05/23 | 9,110 | 2,781 | Asphalt |
Madeira Airport (IATA: FNC, ICAO: LPMA), (informally known as Funchal Airport, and formerly known as Santa Catarina Airport), is an international airport located near Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. The airport controls national and international air traffic of the island of Madeira. It was firstly opened on 18 July 1964 with two 1,600m runways.
The airport was once infamous for its short runway which, surrounded by high mountains and the ocean, made it a tricky landing for even the most experienced of pilots. The original runway was only 1600 metres in length, but was extended by 200 metres 8 years after the TAP Air Portugal Flight 425 incident of 1977 and subsequently rebuilt in 2000, almost doubling the size of the runway, building it out over the ocean. Instead of using landfill, the extension was built on a series of 180 columns, each being about 70m tall. This airport is also considered the Kai Tak of Europe because of its singular approach to runway 05.[1] For the enlargement of the new runway the Funchal Airport has won the Outstanding Structures Award[2], given by International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE). The Outstanding Structures Award is considered to be the "Oscar" for engineering structures worldwide.[3]
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Aigle Azur | Paris-Orly |
| Air Berlin | Berlin-Tegel, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Hamburg [ends 24 April], Leipzig/Halle [seasonal], Munich, Nuremberg, Zürich |
| Austrian Airlines | Vienna [seasonal] |
| Austrian operated by Lauda Air [1] | Vienna [seasonal] |
| Axis Airways | Nantes [seasonal] |
| ArkeFly | Amsterdam [seasonal] |
| Binter Canarias | Las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
| Cimber Sterling | Copenhagen |
| Condor | Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart |
| EasyJet | Bristol, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted |
| Europe Airpost | Montpellier, Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
| Hamburg International | Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
| Iberia operated by Air Nostrum | Bilbao [seasonal], Valencia [seasonal] |
| Jet2.com | Manchester [begins 3 May; seasonal] |
| Jetairfly | Brussels [seasonal] |
| Luxair | Luxembourg |
| Niki | Vienna [seasonal] |
| SATA Air Açores | Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Porto Santo, Tenerife-South [seasonal charter] |
| SATA International | Copenhagen, Dublin, Jersey [seasonal], Lisbon, Madrid [seasonal], Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Ponta Delgada, Porto, Stockholm-Arlanda [seasonal], Zürich |
| SBA Airlines | Caracas |
| TAP Portugal | Caracas, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, Porto |
| TAP operated by Portugália | Lisbon |
| Thomson Airways | Birmingham, Bristol, London-Gatwick, Manchester, Bournemouth |
| Thomas Cook Airlines (Belgium) | Brussels |
| Thomas Cook Airlines | Glasgow [seasonal], London-Gatwick [seasonal], Manchester |
| Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia | Billund [seasonal], Copenhagen [seasonal], Helsinki [seasonal] |
| Transavia.com | Amsterdam, Porto [begins March] |
| Transavia.com France | Paris-Orly |
| Travel Service | Prague |
| TUIfly | Basel/Mulhouse [seasonal], Cologne/Bonn [seasonal], Frankfurt [seasonal], Hanover [seasonal], Stuttgart [seasonal] |
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