Back Aeropuerto de Faro AN مطار فارو Arabic Faro Airport (tugpahanan sa Portugal) CEB Maes Awyr Rhyngwladol Faro Welsh Faro Lufthavn Danish Flughafen Faro German Flughaveno Gago Coutinho Esperanto Aeropuerto de Faro Spanish Faro lennujaam Estonian فرودگاه فارو Persian
Faro Airport Aeroporto Internacional de Faro | |||||||||||
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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 / 37.01444°N 7.96583°W | ||||||||||
| Website | ana.pt | ||||||||||
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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 nearly 10 million passengers using the facility in 2024. Since 2022, it is named after Gago Coutinho, Portuguese geographer, cartographer, naval officer, historian and aviation pioneer.
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