- IATA
- FAO
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- LPFR
- used by air traffic control
- Routes here
- 1
- in the catalogue
- From the equator
- 4,116 km
- 5,892 km from the North pole
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 |
What’s on this page, and what isn’t
Every figure here is computed from the airport’s coordinates and the rest of the table — distances, bearings, ranks, the antipode. Nothing is written by hand, so nothing on it is a half-remembered fact about a terminal that was rebuilt in 2019.
Which also means what you won’t find: no passenger figures, no terminal maps, no airline lists, no live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that invented those would be worse than one that leaves them out.
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