Faro Airport
International airport serving Faro, Portugal / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the airport in Yukon, Canada, see Faro Airport (Yukon).
Not to be confused with Paro Airport.
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.
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Owner | Vinci SA | ||||||||||
Operator | ANA Aeroportos de Portugal | ||||||||||
Serves | Faro, Algarve, Portugal | ||||||||||
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Elevation AMSL | 7 m / 24 ft | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 37°00′52″N 007°57′57″W | ||||||||||
Website | ana.pt | ||||||||||
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