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Madeira Airport
Madeira Airport; Aeroporto da Madeira
IATA: FNC – ICAO: LPMA
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Aeroportos da Madeira
Location	Santa Catarina, Santa Cruz
Elevation AMSL	192 ft / 59 m
Coordinates	32°41′52″N 16°46′28″W / 32.69778°N 16.77444°WCoordinates: 32°41′52″N 16°46′28″W / 32.69778°N 16.77444°W
Runways

Many low-cost airlines have entered the Madeirean market

TAP Portugal Airbus A319 on the tarmac in Funchal

View of the airport from the sea

Madeira Airport (IATA: FNC, ICAO: LPMA), (informally known as Funchal Airport, and formerly known as Santa Catarina Airport), is an international airport located near Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. The airport controls national and international air traffic of the island of Madeira. It was firstly opened on 18 July 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 metres in length, but was extended by 200 metres 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 singular approach to runway 05.[1] For the enlargement of the new runway the Funchal Airport has won the Outstanding Structures Award[2], given by International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE). The Outstanding Structures Award is considered to be the "Oscar" for engineering structures worldwide.[3]

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Aigle Azur	Paris-Orly
Air Berlin	Berlin-Tegel, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Hamburg [ends 24 April], Leipzig/Halle [seasonal], Munich, Nuremberg, Zürich
Austrian Airlines operated by Lauda Air ^[1]	Vienna [seasonal]
Axis Airways	Nantes [seasonal]
ArkeFly	Amsterdam [seasonal]
Binter Canarias	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Cimber Sterling	Copenhagen
Condor	Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart
EasyJet	Bristol, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted
Europe Airpost	Montpellier, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Hamburg International	Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Iberia operated by Air Nostrum	Bilbao [seasonal], Valencia [seasonal]
Jet2.com	Manchester [begins 3 May; seasonal]
Jetairfly	Brussels [seasonal]
Luxair	Luxembourg
Niki	Vienna [seasonal]
SATA Air Açores	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Porto Santo, Tenerife-South [seasonal charter]
SATA International	Copenhagen [seasonal], Dublin, Jersey [seasonal], Lisbon, Madrid [seasonal], Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Ponta Delgada, Porto, Stockholm-Arlanda [seasonal], Zürich
SBA Airlines	Caracas
TAP Portugal	Caracas, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, Porto
TAP operated by Portugália	Lisbon
Thomson Airways	Birmingham, Bristol, London-Gatwick, Manchester, Bournemouth
Thomas Cook Airlines (Belgium)	Brussels
Thomas Cook Airlines	Glasgow [seasonal], London-Gatwick [seasonal], Manchester
Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia	Billund [seasonal], Copenhagen [seasonal], Helsinki [seasonal]
Transavia.com	Amsterdam, Paris-Orly, Porto [begins March]
Travel Service	Prague
TUIfly	Basel/Mulhouse [seasonal], Cologne/Bonn [seasonal], Frankfurt [seasonal], Hanover [seasonal], Stuttgart [seasonal]

[edit] External links

[edit] References

^ https://www.laudaair.com/book/StartHtml.aspx?a=3&fplan=y&L=0&lang=DE Lauda Air timetable (retrieved 2009-08-31)

Airport information for LPMA at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.

[0] ttps://www.laudaair.com/book/StartHtml.aspx?a=3&fplan=y&L=0&lang=DE Lauda Air timetable (retrieved 2009-08-31)

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