Faro Airport

Faro Airport

*Aeroporto Internacional de Faro*
Faro Airport; Aeroporto Internacional de Faro
	IATA: FAO; ICAO: LPFR;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Vinci SA
Operator	ANA Aeroportos de Portugal
Serves	Faro, Algarve, Portugal
Focus city for	easyJet; Ryanair;
Elevation AMSL	7 m / 24 ft
Coordinates	37°00′52″N 007°57′57″W / 37.01444°N 7.96583°W
Website	ana.pt
Map
	LPFR Location within Portugal
Runways
Statistics (2023)
Passengers
Passengers	9,640,000
Passengers change 22-23	18.0%
Aircraft Movements	62,709
Movements change 22-23	13.0%
	Sources: ANAC, Vinci, ANA, WAD

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.

^ "EasyJet opens Faro summer base". Travel Weekly.
^ "Boletins Estatísticos Trimestrais" [Quarterly Statistical Bulletins]. ANAC (in Portuguese). Portuguese Civil Aviation Authority.
^ "Vinci Airports - Traffic 2023" (PDF). 16 January 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
^ Annual Report 2019 (PDF), Lisbon: ANA Aeroportos de Portugal, 28 January 2020
^ "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.
^ "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)
^ AIP Part 3 – AD 2 Aerodromes Archived 15 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
^ "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)

[1] "EasyJet opens Faro summer base". Travel Weekly.

[2] "Boletins Estatísticos Trimestrais" [Quarterly Statistical Bulletins]. ANAC (in Portuguese). Portuguese Civil Aviation Authority.

[Vinci-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)

[AIP-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)

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