Faro Airport (Portuguese: Aeroporto de Faro) (IATA: FAO, ICAO: LPFR) (also known as Algarve Airport) is located 4 km (2.5 mi) to the west of Faro, Portugal.
The airport gets very busy during the summer months, namely from March to October, to the extent that the airport becomes a slot coordinated airport. There are 22 stands of which 16 are remote, with 60 check-in desks and 36 boarding gates
A total of 5.4 million passengers used Faro in 2008. The airport became a hub for the first time in March 2010, when Ryanair decided to base seven of its aircraft there.
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