- IATA
- FAO
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- LPFR
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1965
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 2.2M
- in 2020
History & name
Faro - Gago Coutinho International Airport opened in 1965 and takes its name from Faro, just 4 km away. Operated by ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal, it has one runway of 2,490 m and handled 2.2 million passengers in 2020.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Faro - Gago Coutinho International Airport
- Serves
- Faro, Portugal
- City centre
- 4 km from Faro
- Opened
- 1965
- Operator
- ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal
- Passengers
- 2.2 million in 2020
- Runways
- 1 runway, 2,490 m
- Elevation
- 24 ft (7 m)
- Website
- faroairport.pt ↗
Where it sits
37.0°N, 8.0°W puts FAO in the northern hemisphere, 4,116 km from the equator and 5,892 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 216th most northerly, which makes it the 446th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 37.0°S, 172.0°E — 245 km from Auckland (AKL) in New Zealand, which is about as close to a true antipodal airport pair as this table gets.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Seville (SVQ), 189 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from FAO
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | LHR | 1,713 km | 2h 38m |
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
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