Madeira Airport

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Cristiano Ronaldo
International Airport

Aeroporto Internacional da Madeira
Cristiano Ronaldo
Madeira Airport logo.svg
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Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner Vinci Group
Operator ANA Aeroportos de Portugal
Serves Madeira, Portugal
Location Santa Cruz
Opened7 July 1964;60 years ago (1964-07-07)
Focus city for TAP Air Portugal
Operating base for Ryanair [1]
Elevation  AMSL 58 m / 190 ft
Coordinates 32°41′39″N16°46′41″W / 32.69417°N 16.77806°W / 32.69417; -16.77806
Website aeroportomadeira.pt
Map
Portugal Madeira location map.svg
Airplane silhouette.svg
FNC/LPMA
Location in Portugal
Madeira Airport
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
mft
05/232,7819,124 Asphalt
Statistics (2024)
Passengers5,055,000
Passengers change 23-24Increase2.svg 4.5%
Aircraft movements34,537
Movements change 23-24Increase2.svg 1.4%

Madeira Airport (Portuguese : Aeroporto da Madeira) ( IATA : FNC, ICAO : LPMA), informally Funchal Airport (Aeroporto do Funchal), formerly Santa Catarina Airport (Aeroporto de Santa Catarina) and officially Cristiano Ronaldo International Airport, is an international airport in the civil parish of Santa Cruz in the Portuguese archipelago and autonomous region of Madeira. The airport is located 13.2 km (8.2 mi) east-northeast of the regional capital, Funchal, after which it is sometimes informally named. It mostly hosts flights to European metropolitan destinations due to Madeira's importance as a leisure destination, and is pivotal in the movement of cargo in and out of the archipelago of Madeira. It is the fourth-busiest airport in Portugal. The airport is named after Madeiran native Cristiano Ronaldo, considered one of the greatest footballers of all time. During its renaming ceremony in 2017, the airport drew media notoriety for an infamous bust of Ronaldo unveiled at the ceremony, now replaced. [3]

Contents

The airport is considered one of the most peculiarly perilous airports in the world [4] due to its location and its spectacular runway construction. It received the Outstanding Structure Award in 2004 by the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering. [5] [6] [7] [8] The History Channel programme Most Extreme Airports ranked it as the ninth most dangerous airport in the world and the third most dangerous in Europe. [9] Pilots must undergo additional training to land at the airport. [10]

Geography

Madeira Airport is a geographically unusual airport, as it is perched on a foreland jutting out to sea. At the end of runway 05, there lie hills and cliffs which make a direct ILS approach and landing unavailable. Instead, aircraft have to make a visual approach which involves flying around the airport, then circling around in a ~180° turn before lining up on a very short final approach. The airport's runway - 05/23 - is a tabletop runway, which means there are steep dropoffs at either end of the runway - at the beginning of Runway 05, the runway drops off just before a motorway that snakes around the runway end, and at the beginning of Runway 23, which drops off a cliff. The runway is also unique in the fact that at the beginning of Runway 23, the runway is placed on a platform supported by pillars, similar to a beam bridge.

History

Madeira airport as seen in 1990, pre-runway extension Madeira Funchal landing strip 1990.jpg
Madeira airport as seen in 1990, pre-runway extension

Madeira Airport was officially opened on 7 July 1964, with a single 1,600 m (5,200 ft) runway (06/24). The first flight to land there was a TAP Air Portugal Lockheed Constellation with 80 passengers on board. [11]

In 1972, the popularity of visiting the island of Madeira increased, so the runway was extended to allow modern and larger aircraft to land. Considered the Kai Tak of Europe because of its singular approach to runway 06 (now runway 05), [12] the decision was made to extend the existing runway instead of building a new one. The runway was extended to 1,800 m (5,900 ft), with the extension inaugurated on 1 February 1986 by the then president of the Portuguese Republic António Ramalho Eanes. In the meantime, a new terminal was built at the airport in 1973, handling 500,000 passengers. [13]

However, as demand for tourism continued to grow, the runway was extended further. This new extension resulted in the heading of the runway being slightly adjusted and the designation being changed to 05/23. The newly extended runway—now 2,781 m (9,124 ft) long—and terminal were inaugurated on 6 October 2002, and to mark the occasion, an Air Atlanta Icelandic Boeing 747-200, registration TF-ABA, landed at the airport. [14] Although this was a rare event, some TAP Air Portugal flights on the Lisbon-Caracas-Lisbon route used to have scheduled stops at Madeira with Airbus A330-200 widebody aircraft.

Name change

In 2016, it was announced that the airport would be renamed Madeira International Airport Cristiano Ronaldo (Aeroporto Internacional da Madeira Cristiano Ronaldo) in honour of Madeiran native football player Cristiano Ronaldo. [15] [16] [17] The rebranded terminal was unveiled on 29 March 2017, with a bust of Ronaldo also being presented. [18]

Neither the bust nor the name change were unanimous, actually far from a consensus, as the former was ridiculed by Saturday Night Live's character Cecilia Giminez, portrayed by comedian and actress Kate McKinnon, [19] with the latter being subject to much debate and controversy locally by politicians and citizens, who even started a petition against the move. [20] [21]

A year later, sports website Bleacher Report commissioned sculptor Emanuel Santos to create another bust. [22] However, this bust was never used; instead, a new one was made by a Spanish sculptor and shown to the public on 15 June 2018. [23]

Facilities

Partial view of the airport's main building Aeroporto da Madeira3.JPG
Partial view of the airport's main building
Main check-in desks hall Funchal airport, July 13, 2011 (5939423495).jpg
Main check-in desks hall
Airport tower Madeira airport control tower.jpg
Airport tower
Supporting pillars under the airport runway extension Under the airport runway, Madeira - Nov 2010.jpg
Supporting pillars under the airport runway extension

Runway

The airport was once infamous for its short runway of only 1,600 m (5,249 ft), which, surrounded by high mountains and the ocean, made it a difficult and technically demanding landing for even the most experienced pilots. Because of the ~150° right-hand turn required, the airport has acquired the nickname of "Kai Tak Airport of Europe" - a reference to the former airport of Hong Kong that also needed a right-hand turn to line up for a landing very low and close to the runway. Between 1982 and 1986, a few years after the TAP Air Portugal Flight 425 crash of 1977, Madeira's runway was extended by 200 m (656 ft) to a total of 1,800 m (5,906 ft), and four gates were opened.

In 2000, the runway was again extended, this time to 2,781 m (9,124 ft). As landfill was not a realistic option, the extension was built on a platform, partly over the ocean, supported by 180 columns, each about 70 m (230 ft) tall. The runway extension was conducted by the Brazilian construction company Andrade Gutierrez and is recognized worldwide as one of the most difficult to achieve due to the type of terrain and orography.

Its innovative solution allowed Funchal to receive the Outstanding Structure Award in 2004 by the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering, [5] which aims at recognizing the most remarkable, innovative, creative, or otherwise stimulating structure completed within the last few years. [6] [7] [8]

Terminal

The airport has a single terminal, which opened in 1973. The terminal has 40 check-in desks, 16 boarding gates, and 7 baggage belts. There are no air-bridges, so passengers either walk the short distance to the terminal or are taken by shuttle bus. The terminal itself is mostly underground.

Modernisation

In 2016, Madeira Airport was modernised and renovated by its operator, ANA Aeroportos de Portugal, as part of an €11 million investment. The renovated terminal area, which was opened in June 2016, by the President of the Autonomous Regional Government of Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque, improved the existing facility and facilitated the creation of a brand new shopping area, doubling the airport's overall capacity.

According to Vinci Airports, the airport will "have the capacity to deal with up to 1,400 passengers per hour", and the airport's overall new layout has been designed to enable to accommodation of new stores for national and international brands alike. [24]

The passenger screening area, under the command of Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras, increased from 7,000 sq ft (650 m²) to 16,000 sq ft (1,500 m²), accommodating an increase in the number of security screening lines, while the passenger holding and verification area increased from 300 m² to 650 m². The new layout has simplified the passenger experience, creating defined areas for the Schengen Area (which the Autonomous Region of Madeira is part of) and non–Schengen Area passengers, and given the airport operator the ability to alternate these areas based on flight schedules. A new transfer hall and three new departure gates were also created as part of the project. [25]

The renovation and investment project also accommodated the strengthening and re-profiling of the runway and taxiways, increasing the usable area by more than 16,000 sq ft (1,500 m2).

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

The following airlines operate regular scheduled passenger flights at Madeira Airport:

AirlinesDestinations
airBaltic Seasonal: Riga [26]
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna
Avion Express Seasonal charter: Vilnius [27]
Azores Airlines New York–JFK, [28] Ponta Delgada [29]
Seasonal: Boston, [30] Toronto–Pearson [31]
Binter Canarias Gran Canaria, [32] Porto Santo, [29] Tenerife–North [32]
Seasonal: Fuerteventura, [33] Lanzarote, [33] Marrakesh, [33] Tenerife–South [33]
Braathens International Airways Seasonal charter: Gothenburg [34] Stockholm-Arlanda [34]
British Airways London–Gatwick [35]
Brussels Airlines Seasonal: Brussels (begins 5 April 2025) [36]
Bulgaria Air Seasonal: Sofia [37]
Condor Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Stuttgart
Discover Airlines Frankfurt, Munich [38]
easyJet Amsterdam, [39] Basel/Mulhouse, [40] Berlin, Bristol, Geneva, [41] Lisbon, London–Gatwick, London–Luton (begins 2 June 2025), [42] Lyon, [43] Nantes (begins March 30), [44] Manchester, [43] Paris–Charles de Gaulle, [45] Porto
Seasonal: Bordeaux [46]
Edelweiss Air Zürich
Enter Air Seasonal charter: Katowice, [47] Poznań, Vilnius, Warsaw–Chopin, Wrocław
EuroAtlantic Airways Seasonal charter: Caracas [48]
Eurowings Düsseldorf [49] [50]
Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, [51] Hamburg, Nuremberg, [52] Prague, [53] Stuttgart
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki
Iberia Madrid [54]
Seasonal: Barcelona, [55] Bilbao, [56] Málaga, [57] Santiago de Compostela, [57] Seville, [58] Valencia [57]
Jet2.com Belfast–International, [59] Birmingham, Bournemouth (begins 1 May 2025), [60] Bristol, East Midlands, Edinburgh, [61] Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, [62] London–Luton (begins 7 April 2025), [63] London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair Luxembourg [64]
Norwegian Air Shuttle Oslo [65]
Seasonal: Aalborg, [66] Copenhagen
Play Seasonal: Reykjavik–Keflavík [67]
Ryanair [68] Beauvais, Charleroi, Dublin, Lisbon, London–Stansted, Manchester, Milan–Malpensa (begins 1 April 2025), [69] Porto, [70] Shannon (begins 30 March 2025)
Seasonal: Marseille [71]
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Stockholm–Arlanda
Smartwings Seasonal: Brno, Prague
Seasonal charter: Bratislava [72]
Sundair Seasonal: Berlin [73]
Swiss International Air Lines Seasonal: Geneva [74]
TAP Air Portugal Lisbon, [75] Porto
Seasonal: Caracas [75]
TAROM Seasonal charter: Bucharest–Otopeni [76]
Transavia Amsterdam, Lyon, [77] Marseille (begins 13 July 2025), [78] Nantes, [79] Paris–Orly, Porto [80]
TUI Airways Birmingham, Manchester
TUI fly Belgium Brussels [81]
TUI fly Deutschland Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart
TUI fly Netherlands Seasonal: Amsterdam
United Airlines Seasonal: Newark (begins 7 June 2025) [82]
Wizz Air Budapest, Gdańsk, [83] Katowice, [84] Rome–Fiumicino, [85] Vienna, [86] Warsaw–Chopin

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
Swiftair Lisbon [87]

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at FNC airport. See Wikidata query.
Busiest routes from Madeira Airport (2019) [88]
RankCity, airportPassengers %
change
Top carriers
1 Lisbon 1,009,847Increase2.svg 1.6%easyJet, TAP Air Portugal
2 Porto 354,823Increase2.svg 5.5%easyJet, TAP Air Portugal
3 London-Gatwick 260,972Decrease2.svg 0.2%easyJet, TUI Airways
4 Manchester 102,723Decrease2.svg 16.8%easyJet, Jet2.com, TUI Airways
5 Frankfurt 95,355Increase2.svg 22.6%Condor, Lufthansa, TUI fly Deutschland
6 Amsterdam 84,511Increase2.svg 2.6%Corendon Airlines, Transavia, TUI fly Netherlands
7 Düsseldorf 79,713Increase2.svg 25.2%Condor, TUI fly Deutschland
8 Paris-Orly 79,399Decrease2.svg 5.4%Transavia
9 Munich 61,975Increase2.svg 20.8%Condor, Lufthansa, TUI fly Deutschland
10 London–Stansted 60,524Increase2.svg 40%Jet2.com

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