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Faro Airport (FAO)

Faro Airport (FAO, LPFR) serves Faro, Portugal. Flights leaving FAO left an average of 13.3 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 26th least delayed of 88 busy European airports. 10.3 million passengers used it in the twelve months to February 2026, most often flying to or from London.

Delays at FAO

Average departure delay per flight: 13.3 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in September (17.2 min) and lightest in March (8.8 min).

Average departure delay per flight from FAO, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
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MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 202513.4 min4,337
September 202517.2 min3,957
October 202514.2 min3,726
November 202512.8 min1,691
December 202511.3 min1,437
January 202611.7 min1,303
February 202610.8 min1,388
March 20268.8 min2,229
April 20269.4 min3,536
May 202611.9 min3,952
June 202616.0 min4,035
July 202615.2 min4,494

Air traffic flow restrictions held 0.1% of arrivals at FAO for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of air traffic control (85% of those delay minutes).

Departure delay counts every cause, from the airline to air traffic control, and is measured against the scheduled time. Source: EUROCONTROL Aviation Intelligence Portal, summarised by TripStow. EUROCONTROL does not endorse TripStow.

Passengers at FAO

10,341,039 passengers used FAO in the twelve months to February 2026, on 66,850 commercial flights.

Passengers by month at FAO, arrivals and departures together.
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MonthPassengersFlights
March 2025563,4793,730
April 20251,001,8656,505
May 20251,146,3997,367
June 20251,224,2717,534
July 20251,325,2688,293
August 20251,305,2078,238
September 20251,209,6067,568
October 20251,106,0487,038
November 2025443,9873,095
December 2025361,3192,677
January 2026297,6362,286
February 2026355,9542,519

Eurostat publishes airport figures a few months behind. Source: Eurostat (CC BY 4.0), summarised by TripStow.

Busiest routes from FAO

  1. London Gatwick (LGW)854,228 passengers
  2. Dublin (DUB)666,741 passengers
  3. Manchester (MAN)478,657 passengers
  4. London Stansted (STN)406,011 passengers
  5. Bristol (BRS)379,313 passengers
  6. London Luton (LTN)294,340 passengers
  7. Paris-Orly (ORY)288,227 passengers
  8. Lisbon (LIS)279,682 passengers
  9. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)276,759 passengers
  10. Birmingham (BHX)263,745 passengers

Passengers in 2024, both directions together. Source: Eurostat (CC BY 4.0), summarised by TripStow.

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Faro (FAO)?
Flights leaving FAO left an average of 13.3 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 26th least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at FAO?
September 2025, when flights left an average of 17.2 minutes late; the lightest month was March 2026 (8.8 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at FAO?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At FAO in the last year the biggest cause was air traffic control (85% of those minutes), then weather (13%).

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