Faro Airport

For the airport in Yukon, Canada, see Faro Airport (Yukon).
Not to be confused with Paro Airport.

Faro Airport

Aeroporto Internacional de Faro
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Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerVinci SA
OperatorANA Aeroportos de Portugal
ServesFaro, Algarve, Portugal
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL7 m / 24 ft
Coordinates37°00′52″N 007°57′57″W / 37.01444°N 7.96583°W / 37.01444; -7.96583
Websiteana.pt
Map
LPFR is located in Portugal
LPFR
LPFR
Location within Portugal
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
10/28 2,490 8,169 Asphalt
Statistics (2023)
Passengers9,640,000
Passengers change 22-23Increase 18.0%
Aircraft movements62,709
Movements change 22-23Increase 13.0%
Sources: ANAC,[2] Vinci,[3] ANA,[4][5] WAD[6]

Faro International Airport (Portuguese: Aeroporto de Faro, IATA: FAO, ICAO: LPFR), officially Faro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (Aeroporto Internacional de Faro - Gago Coutinho), is located four kilometres (two nautical miles) west[7] of the city of Faro in Portugal. The airport opened in July 1965[8] being the main gateway to Faro District (the year-round resort region of the Algarve) and southwestern Spain, with nine million passengers using the facility in 2019. Since 2022, it is named after Gago Coutinho, Portuguese geographer, cartographer, naval officer, historian and aviation pioneer.

  1. ^ "EasyJet opens Faro summer base". Travel Weekly.
  2. ^ "Boletins Estatísticos Trimestrais" [Quarterly Statistical Bulletins]. ANAC (in Portuguese). Portuguese Civil Aviation Authority.
  3. ^ "Vinci Airports - Traffic 2023" (PDF). 16 January 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  4. ^ Annual Report 2019 (PDF), Lisbon: ANA Aeroportos de Portugal, 28 January 2020
  5. ^ "Aeroportos portugueses com o maior crescimento de sempre" [Portuguese airports with the highest growth ever] (Press release) (in Portuguese). ANA Aeroportos de Portugal. 7 January 2016. Archived from the original on 15 February 2016.
  6. ^ "FARO". World Aero Data. WorldAeroData.com. Archived from the original on 24 November 2004. Retrieved 2 March 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  7. ^ AIP Part 3 – AD 2 Aerodromes Archived 15 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 July 2014. Retrieved 29 July 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)