Faro Airport

Faro Airport (Portuguese: Aeroporto de Faro) (IATA: FAO, ICAO: LPFR) is located 2.6 km (1.6 mi) to the west of Faro.

The Airport is very busy during the summer months, March to October, to an extent where the airport becomes a slot coordinated airport.

A total of 5.4 million passengers used Faro in 2008. The Airport became a base airport for the first time in March 2010 when Ryanair based 7 aircraft which boosted jobs and will reverse the current downturn in passenger numbers.

Transport

Over 10 car rental firms are located at the airport. The airport is also close to the A22 toll free highway, with connections throughout the Algarve and direct to Lisbon and Spain.

Infrastructure

Faro Airport is capable of handling 6m passengers a year and is near reaching this capacity. Faro Airport consists of,

22 stands of which 16 are remote.
60 Check-In Desks.
36 Boarding gates.

Since its opening in 1966 Faro airport has had 2 major developments: The opening of the new passenger terminal building in 1989 and its enlargement in 2001.

The new development plan 2009-2013 has already begun. Faced with growing traffic demand and passenger safety and satisfaction needs, over the next 4 years Faro airport will undergo extensive improvements to runway and infrastructure as well as a widespread renovation of the airport terminal and commercial areas, namely:

Increase of aircraft parking capacity from 22 to 33 positions, which will increase ATM’s from 22 to 30 per hour and passenger flow from 2400 to 3000 mov/h.
Increase operational safety.
Increase of airport capacity from 6 million to 8 million passengers per year.
Functional and architectural modernization of the airport terminal.
Renovation and expansion of commercial areas.

Airlines and destinations

Departures terminal at Faro Airport.

The forecourt of the arrival hall.

Terminal building.

an Air Berlin Boeing 737-800 at Gate 24.

The main apron.

Jet2.com aircraft departs Faro.

Note: † denotes charter airlines and their destinations.

Airlines	Destinations
Aer Lingus	Belfast-International [seasonal], Cork [seasonal], Dublin
Air Berlin	Berlin-Tegel [seasonal], Cologne/Bonn [seasonal], Dresden [seasonal], Düsseldorf [seasonal], Hamburg [seasonal], Leipzig/Halle [seasonal], Münster/Osnabrück [seasonal], Munich [seasonal], Nuremberg [seasonal], Paderborn/Lippstadt [seasonal], Palma de Mallorca
Air Transat	Toronto-Pearson
Arkefly	Amsterdam
Portuguese Airlines	Vienna [seasonal]
Bmibaby	Birmingham, Cardiff, East Midlands
British Airways	London-Gatwick
British Airways operated by BA Cityflyer	Glasgow-International [seasonal]
Brussels Airlines	Brussels
EasyJet	Belfast-International, Bristol, Doncaster/Sheffield [ends 4 January], Glasgow-International, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Newcastle upon Tyne, Paris-Orly
Europe Airpost †	Dublin [begins 5 May 2011], Knock [begins 5 May 2011] [all seasonal]
Flybe	Exeter, Southampton
Germanwings	Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart [all seasonal]
Jetairfly	Almeria, Brussels
Jet2.com	Blackpool [seasonal], East Midlands [begins 12 May 2011], Edinburgh [seasonal], Glasgow-International [begins 1 April 2011], Leeds/Bradford, Manchester [seasonal], Newcastle upon Tyne [begins 2 April 2011]
Lufthansa	Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair	Luxembourg
Monarch Airlines	Scheduled - Birmingham, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester Chartered - Cork, Dublin, Shannon [all seasonal]
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda
Palmair †	Bournemouth, Cork [seasonal], Dublin [seasonal]
Ryanair	Billund [seasonal], Birmingham [seasonal], Bournemouth [sesonal], Bremen, Bristol, Brussels South-Charleroi, Cork, Derry [seasonal], Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Glasgow-Prestwick, Hahn, Kerry [seasonal], Knock [seasonal], Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London-Gatwick [begins 31 October], London-Stansted, Lübeck [seasonal], Maastricht [seasonal], Madrid [seasonal], Marseille [seasonal], Memmingen [seasonal], Milan-Orio al Serio [seasonal], Oslo-Rygge [seasonal], Paris-Beauvais, Porto, Stockholm-Skavsta [seasonal], Weeze
SATA International	Toronto-Pearson
SATA Air Açores	Funchal,Ponta Delgada
Swiss International Air Lines	Zürich
TAP Portugal	Lisbon
Thomas Cook Airlines	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 [seasonal], Bournemouth, Cardiff [seasonal], Doncaster/Sheffield [seasonal], East Midlands [seasonal], Exeter [seasonal], Glasgow-International [seasonal], London-Gatwick, London-Luton [seasonal], London-Stansted [seasonal], Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne [seasonal]
Transavia	Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Groningen, Rotterdam [seasonal]
Transavia Denmark	Copenhagen [resumes 11 February]
TUIfly	Düsseldorf [seasonal], Frankfurt [seasonal], Hanover [seasonal], Munich [seasonal], Stuttgart [seasonal]
TUIfly Nordic	Bergen, Copenhagen, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Helsinki, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda
Viking Airlines †	Glasgow-International [seasonal]

Incidents and accidents

On 21 December 1992, 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, no flights were cancelled but one easyJet flight was delayed for 2 hours due to the snow in Liverpool airport and some passengers were unable to check in due to the flooding.

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General Info
Country	Portugal
ICAO ID	LPFR
Time	UTC 0(+1DT)
Latitude	37.014425 37° 00' 51.93" N
Longitude	-7.965911 007° 57' 57.28" W
Elevation	24 feet 7 meters
Type	Civil
Magnetic Variation	003° W (01/06)
Operating Agency	CIVIL GOVERNMENT, (LANDING FEES AND DIPLOMATIC CLEARANCE MAY BE REQUIRED)
Operating Hours	SEE REMARKS FOR OPERATING HOURS OR COMMUNICATIONS FOR POSSIBLE HOURS
International Clearance Status	Airport of Entry
Daylight Saving Time	Last Sunday in March to last Sunday in October

Communications
TWR Opr H24	118.2 399.55 376.75
GND Opr H24	118.575 399.55 376.75
ATIS Opr H24	124.2
APP Opr H24	119.4 399.55 376.75

Runways
ID	Dimensions	Surface	PCN	ILS
10/28	8169 x 148 feet 2490 x 45 meters	ASPHALT	080FAWT	YES

Navaids
Type	ID	Name	Channel	Freq	Distance From Field	Bearing From Navaid
VOR-DME	VFA	FARO	075X	112.8	At Field	-
NDB	FAR	FARO	-	332	1.9 NM	284.7

Supplies/Equipment
Oil	Available (Types unknown)

Remarks
CAUTION	Bird haz.
FUEL	(NC-100LL, A1 - Avbl 0800-2400Z++. OT O/R with surcharge.)
LGT	PAPI Rwy 10,28 MEHT 69'.
OPR HOURS	Opr 0605-2400Z++.
RSTD	2 hr PPR for all arr and dep acft. Rstd to acft able to maint two-way com with Faro Twr. Flw-me cars avbl O/R. Trng flt with consecutive touch and go are only allowed PPR fr arpt OPS 72 hr before operation. Transponder required.

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