Faro Airport (Portuguese: Aeroporto de Faro) (IATA: FAO, ICAO: LPFR) is located 2.6 km (1.6 mi) to the west of Faro, Portugal.
The Airport is very busy during the summer months, March to October, to an extent where the airport becomes a slot coordinated airport.
A total of 5.4 million passengers used Faro in 2008. The Airport became a base airport for the first time in March 2010 when Ryanair based 7 aircraft.
Over 10 car rental firms are located at the airport. The airport is also close to the A22 toll free highway, with connections throughout the Algarve and direct to Lisbon and Spain.
On 21 December 1992, Martinair Flight 495 skidded off the runway in bad weather at Faro Airport killing 54 passengers & 2 crew out of a total of 340 people on Board.
On 29 December 2009, the terminal building flooded due to severe weather and leaks in the roof. This caused many problems inside the terminal, no flights were cancelled but one easyJet flight was delayed for 2 hours due to the snow in Liverpool airport and some passengers were unable to check in due to the flooding.
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