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Airport Madeira (Portugal)
| Madeira Airport Aeroporto da Madeira |
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|---|---|---|---|
| IATA: FNC ICAO: LPMA | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Aeroportos da Madeira | ||
| Location | Santa Catarina, Santa Cruz | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 192 ft / 59 m | ||
| Coordinates | Coordinates: | ||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 05/23 | 9,110 | 2,777 | Asphalt |
Madeira Airport (IATA: FNC, ICAO: LPMA), also known as Funchal Airport and Santa Catarina Airport, is an international airport located near Funchal, Madeira. The airport controls national and international air traffic of the island of Madeira.
The airport was opened on July 18th, 1964 with two 1,600m runways.
The airport was once infamous for its short runway which, surrounded by high mountains and the ocean, made it a tricky landing for even the most experienced of pilots. The original runway was only 1600 meters in length, but was extended by 200 meters 8 years after the TAP Air Portugal Flight 425 incident of 1977 and subsequently rebuilt in 2000, almost doubling the size of the runway, building it out over the ocean. Instead of using landfill, the extension was built on a series of 180 columns, each being about 70m tall. This airport is also considered the Kai Tak of Europe because of its runway and approach, excluding flying over a city.
For the enlargement of the new runway the Funchal Airport has won the Outstanding Structures Award, given by International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE). The Outstanding Structures Award is considered to be the "Oscar" for engineering structures in Portugal.[1]
Airlines and destinations
- Aer Lingus (Dublin)
- airberlin (Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Nuremberg, Zürich)
- Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
- Condor Airlines (Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Stuttgart)
- easyJet (Bristol, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted)
- Europe Airpost (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Finnair (Helsinki)
- Flyglobespan (Edinburgh)
- Jetairfly (Brussels [seasonal])
- Luxair (Luxembourg)
- Niki (Vienna)
- SATA Air Açores (Porto Santo)
- SATA International (Lisbon, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Ponta Delgada, Porto)
- Scandinavian Airlines (Oslo-Gardermoen) [begins November 2008]
- TAP Portugal (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Caracas, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow, Frankfurt, Madrid, Paris-Orly, Porto)
- operated by Portugália (Lisbon, Milan-Malpensa)
- Thomson Airways (Birmingham, Bristol, London Gatwick, Manchester)
- Thomas Cook Airlines (Belgium) (Brussels)
- Thomas Cook Airlines (Glasgow-International [seasonal], London-Gatwick [seasonal], Manchester)
- Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia (Billund [seasonal], Copenhagen [seasonal], Helsinki [seasonal])
- transavia.com (Amsterdam, Paris-Orly)
- TUIfly (Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Stuttgart)
External links
References
- Airport information for LPMA at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
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