FARO AIRPORT WITH MORE CONNECTIONS THIS WINTER 

 

This is good news for the region of the Algarve. Faro Airport will have a reinforcement of its connections to Europe during the next 2015/16 winter season, thus contributing to minimize the seasonality effect on the region. 

Fully aware of the importance of adequate aerial accessibility for the development of the region and the Algarve as a tourist destination, ANA Aeroportos de Portugal, together with its national and regional tourism partners, has been working with airlines and tour operators in order to reinforce the offer of flights to Faro Airport in the winter period.  

Among other measures, ANA has been applying a progressive price differentiation at Faro Airport, practising significantly lower rates in winter than in summer and implementing an incentive policy for the development of traffic that concentrates the highest incentives in the winter period. The response to this strategy is starting to show its first results, with a growing number of airlines adhering to the idea of strengthening their winter operations. 

ANA hopes that this renewed focus on breaching the seasonality on the part of some companies is the start to a new virtuous cycle that will lead to an increase and qualification of the region's winter offer, which, in turn, will become the engine for a growing dynamic in the strengthening of operations and routes. 

The new connections and routes in this season represent an increase in the offer of available seats: 148,254 seats, an increase of 11.2% when compared to last winter.

In all, there are three new winter routes, four new companies operating existing routes at the Airport and seven reinforcements in existing operations.

Faro Airport will thus provide 35 direct destinations operated by 15 regular airline companies this winter.  

For more information regarding schedules and connections from Faro Airport, please consult  /en/fao/flights-destinations/destinations/flights-offers