Press

21.12.2015

Aigle Azur opens new service from Paris to the Algarve

Aigle Azur opens new service from Paris to the Algarve

Aigle Azur, a new airline this winter at Faro Airport, began yesterday its operation with a new regular connection between Paris Orly - Faro. The ceremony which took place yesterday evening was directed to passengers on the departure of the first flight.

With this new airline, connecting Paris - Algarve, which although has been operating to Faro since 2008, on a seasonal basis, now becomes a year round operation, with double the number of seats and 2 weekly flights on Thursdays and on Sundays. This new regular service will be served with an A319 and represents an additional supply of 7344 seats (departures and arrivals).

Timetable
Origin-Destination / Departure / Day of operation
Faro – Paris Orly / 18.10 / Thursdays
Faro - Paris Orly / 19.15 / Sundays
Paris Orly - Faro / 15.50 / Thursdays
Paris Orly - Faro / 16.55 / Sundays

For Aigle Azur "the new regular service is strengthening the company in the principal markets in which it operates, and will allow also ensure in winter connectivity to the Algarve region, one of its most attractive markets, with magnificent beaches, landscapes and fields golf."

To Faro Airport, the continuity of regular air link Paris Orly - Faro, operated by Aigle Azur, now during the winter and, in particular, for the Christmas season, will strengthen and intensify the close and lasting relationship with the airline and marks a frank focus on our infrastructure and in the Algarve region.

Full-scale emergency exercise

07.01.2016

Biggest growth ever

Press

07.01.2016

Biggest growth ever

Portuguese airports with the biggest growth ever

• Portuguese airports traffic increased by 11 % in 2015

• More than 20 million passengers in Lisbon

• Traffic reached 8.1 million passengers in Porto, 6.4 million in Faro, 2.7 million in Madeira and 1.6 million in the Azores.

• 25 new routes

2015 was a year of records in Portuguese airports.

With a total of 38.9 million passengers, which sets a new high, the growth rate compared to 2014 is 11 %. The global success comes from the fact that all the Portuguese airports have reached last year the best results ever.

Lisbon Airport exceeded 20 million passengers, ie an increase of 10.7% over the previous year. In the last three years the airport in the capital increased by 4.8 million passengers, while in the eight previous years the increase had been 4.6 million.

Porto Airport reached 8.1 million passengers, up 16.7%, or 1.2 million passengers more than in 2014.

In Faro, the growth was 6.4% to 6.4 million passengers, while Madeira airports reached 2.7 million passengers, 6.3% more than last year. The largest percentage increase was recorded at airports in the Azores, where growth was 25.7% to 1.6 million passengers.

The sustained passenger growth in recent years results from the attractiveness of the airports network and the effort to attract new routes and airlines. On the other hand, the last two years were marked by strong growth in low cost traffic, especially in 2015, when the growth of low cost companies was quite higher than in the traditional segment.

The growth in air traffic is, according to the regulatory model, the lever for investments in capacity increase, which are critical to continue growing and to continue to contribute to the development of the regions.

Aigle Azur opens new service from Paris to the Algarve

25.01.2016

Projeto CDM

Press

13.04.2016

Beja Airport anniversary

Beja Airport celebrates five years of activity

Today, 13 April, Beja Airport celebrates its 5th year of operation.

An important asset in the region's transport network, it combines all the conditions needed to become a fundamental infrastructure for the development of the Alentejo. ANA is aware that achieving this goal depends on contextual variables associated with the development of the region itself, particularly in terms of the economy, whose progress it is unable to control or forecast. Up until now, although there are products that generate demand, the Alentejo region still does not have a large enough market to make viable touristic and cargo flows for which air transport would be a determining factor.

Throughout these five years in operation, exploratory initiatives have been undertaken which resulted from cooperation between ANA, the Tourism bodies and Operators. However, despite these efforts, the low demand from commercial aviation has led to a rethinking of the Airport's operations and to it being re-assigned for other types of operation.

Therefore, ANA has committed to establishing activities of an industrial nature in this infrastructure, which are able to attract investment and create jobs, specifically in the maintenance and disassembly of aircraft, and in the medium-long term parking of aircraft.

As a result of this strategy, on 31 July 2015, ANA and AERONEO formally took out an Occupancy and Operating Licence with the aim of building and operating an industrial unit on the perimeter of Beja Airport intended for the maintenance, disassembly, and certification of recoverable components from aircraft. The programmed and publicly announced investment in this new industrial unit amounts to 8 million euros, may lead to the creation of up to around 100 jobs, and is scheduled to enter into full operation within three years. This structuring project, for which building work are expected to begin shortly, will have a significant impact on the Alentejo region.

ANA has also been making great efforts to establish Beja in the aircraft parking sector, and these efforts began to show results at the beginning of 2016 with the presence of the airlines Hi Fly, euroAtlantic airways and SATA.

Currently, Beja Airport has become the operational base for Hi Fly's fleet of wide body aircraft and, since January, has ensured the parking of three to five aircraft that use the facility every day as a rotating platform between operations, including support activities, in particular maintenance. As a result of all this, the company has already begun to recruit in the region.

More recently, on 28 March, euroAtlantic airways began operations with the parking of two B767-300 aircraft, and this company consider to base part of its fleet of Boeing 767 aircraft in this facility.

SATA Azores Airlines used the facility to park an aircraft for a period of approximately two weeks.

In addition, and as a result of the extensive commercial efforts that ANA has been making in the medium-long term aircraft parking segment for the Alentejo airport infrastructure, discussions are ongoing with other airlines which may produce positive results in the near future.

Along similar lines, ANA Aeroportos de Portugal, SA and Galp Energia reached an Agreement this year which allows the price of aviation fuel to be lowered at Beja Airport, making the facility even more competitive. With this Agreement, the price of Jet A1 fuel at Beja Airport becomes identical to the price charged at Lisbon Airport. Also in this area, and as a means of optimising infrastructure management, during 2016, ANA will invest in the construction of new facilities for the parking of Jet A1 refuelling vehicles, with the aim of significantly improving the existing conditions.

Beja Airport (TCB) is a strategic investment, not just for the Alentejo region, but also for the Country and for ANA. These initiatives demonstrate the Company's commitment to its revitalisation, to improving the effectiveness of the strategy being followed by its managing entity, and to guaranteeing not just its future sustainability, but also the indirect creation of sustainable employment.