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🇵🇹 Ponta Delgada, Portugal

João Paulo II Airport (PDL)

João Paulo II Airport (PDL, LPPD) serves Ponta Delgada, Portugal. 2.7 million passengers used it in the twelve months to February 2026, most often flying to or from Lisbon.

Passengers at PDL

2,749,484 passengers used PDL in the twelve months to February 2026, on 26,337 commercial flights.

Passengers by month at PDL, arrivals and departures together.
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MonthPassengersFlights
March 2025171,8691,565
April 2025247,1072,300
May 2025256,6252,432
June 2025297,9982,990
July 2025341,0643,223
August 2025368,6023,305
September 2025297,5852,931
October 2025224,0262,072
November 2025149,2581,393
December 2025143,7071,437
January 2026129,9431,455
February 2026121,7001,234

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

Busiest routes from PDL

  1. Lisbon (LIS)933,707 passengers
  2. Porto (OPO)339,665 passengers
  3. Lajes (terceira Island) (TER)255,839 passengers
  4. Pico (PIX)110,851 passengers
  5. Santa Maria (island) (SMA)107,677 passengers
  6. Boston (BOS)107,172 passengers
  7. Horta (HOR)100,495 passengers
  8. Toronto (YYZ)97,556 passengers
  9. Funchal (FNC)84,015 passengers
  10. New York (JFK)70,649 passengers

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

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