Faro Airport (Portugal)
Faro Airport (Portuguese: Aeroporto Internacional de Faro ) is located about 4.4 miles (7km) to the west 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.
A total of 5.5 million passengers flew from Faro in 2007. It is Portugal's second International gateway, after Lisbon's International airport and mainland Iberian Peninsula sixth most important airport after Madrid - Barajas, Barcelona - El Prat, Lisbon , Málaga and Alicante .
Terminal building
Faro Airport has a rather modern terminal building, fully eqquiped with double mutual load airbridges capable of handling aircraft such as the Boeing B747/400.
Airlines and destinations
Scheduled flights
The Faro airport
Aircraft Hanging from the Ceiling in Faro Airport
Departures terminal at Faro Airport
Faro International Airport
Aer Arann (Galway, Waterford)Aer Lingus (Belfast-International, Cork, Dublin)Aigle Azur (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)airberlin (Basel, Berlin-Tegel, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Erfurt, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, Münster/Osnabrück, Munich, Nuremberg, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Palma de Mallorca, Zurich)Austrian Airlines (Vienna) bmibaby (Birmingham, Cardiff, East Midlands)British Airways (London-Gatwick)Brussels Airlines (Brussels)easyJet (Belfast-International, Bristol, East Midlands, Glasgow-International, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Newcastle)Finnair (Helsinki)Flybe (Exeter, Southampton)Flyglobespan (Aberdeen, Durham Tees Valley, Edinburgh, Glasgow-International)Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart)Jetairfly (Almeria, Brussels)Jet2.com (Blackpool, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester) Lufthansa (Frankfurt)Luxair (Luxembourg)Monarch Airlines (Scheduled) (Birmingham, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester)Norwegian Air Shuttle (Copenhagen [begins 4 April], Oslo)Ryanair (Brussels-Charleroi, Dublin, Dusseldorf-Weeze, East Midlands, Frankfurt-Hahn, Glasgow-Prestwick, Liverpool, London-Stansted, Shannon)SAS (Stockholm-Arlanda) (begins 8th February)SATA (Toronto)Smart Wings (Prague)Swiss Airlines (Zürich)TAP Portugal (Amsterdam, Lisbon, Paris-Orly)Thomsonfly (Scheduled) (Bournemouth, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, London-Gatwick, Manchester)transavia.com (Amsterdam, Copenhagen [begins 8 December], Eindhoven, Rotterdam)TUIfly (Düsseldorf, Basel, Cologne, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Stuttgart)TUIfly Nordic (Helsinki, Copenhagen, Oslo, Bergen , Stockholm-Arlanda, Gothenburg and sometimes from other airports as charter)
Charter flights
The Faro Airport with a plane of Air Berlin
Air France (operated by Regional) (Marseille, Lyon)Air Transat (Toronto-Pearson)Arkefly (Amsterdam)Astraeus (Leeds/Bradford, London-Gatwick, Manchester)Aurela (Tallinn) Axis Airways (Marseille, Le Havre, Lyon, Paris-CDG) Blue Air (Bucharest-Otopeni)Blue Line (Clermont-Ferrand, Nantes, Paris-CDG)BMI (Aberdeen, Leeds, Manchester)Estonian Air (Tallinn)Europe Airpost (Paris-CDG, Brest, Deauville)Palmair (Bournemouth)First Choice Airways (Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Dublin, Edinburgh, East Midlands, Exeter, Glasgow-International, Humberside, Leeds, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Manchester)Flightline (Dublin)Icelandair (Reykjavik-Kleflavik)Iberworld (Cork, Dublin)Jet2.com (Belfast)Jettime (Billund)Monarch Airlines (Charter) (Cork, Dublin, Edinburgh, London-Gatwick, Manchester, Shannon)Rossiya (St. Petersburg)SAS (Aarhus, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm-Arlanda)Skyservice (Toronto-Pearson) [Seasonal - Winter Only]Swiss Airlines (Zürich)Transaero (Moscow-Domodedovo)TUIfly Nordic (Helsinki, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm-Arlanda)Thomas Cook Airlines (Belfast-International, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Midlands, Glasgow-International, Leeds, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle) Thomas Cook Airlines (Belgium) (Brussels) Thomsonfly (Charter) (Birmingham, East Midlands, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted [Starts 3 May 2009], Manchester, Newcastle)transavia.com (Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Enschede, Groningen, Maastricht, Paris-Orly, Rotterdam)
References
External links
de:Flughafen Faro
es:Aeropuerto de Faro
fr:Aéroport de Faro
id:Bandar Udara Faro (Portugal)
nl:Luchthaven Faro
no:Faro lufthavn (Portugal)
pl:Port lotniczy Faro
pt:Aeroporto de Faro
vi:Sân bay qu?c t? Faro (B? ?ào Nha)
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