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Portugal Golf Holidays – Porto Airport has new routes and more air connections

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Porto Airport will have more flights this summer

Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport, known as Porto Airport, is having a record year. It served 12.6 million people in 2022, up from 5.8 million in 2021 (marked by Covid 19). A rise of 116.3% from the previous year, but below the 13.1 million in 2019, before the pandemic. The value for 2022 also corresponds to 96.1% of the passengers transported in 2019.

There are also new routes, expanded capacity, and additional flight connections thanks to the debut of airlines operating from Porto.

The investment of numerous foreign airlines in the airport of the North region of Portugal is crucial to making all of this possible. There was an all-time high in the number of airlines servicing Porto Airport in just the first quarter of 2023.

This summer, the airport will add 14 new routes and connections to 3 new countries, namely Iceland, Latvia, and Israel, as well as six new airlines: airBaltic, Norwegian, Play, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, Sun D’Or, and Austrian Airlines. This increases the number of airlines serving this airport to 31.

There will be a reinforcement of connectivity with Stockholm, Shannon, Glasgow, Riga, Reykjavik, Tel Aviv, Vienna, Copenhagen, Berlin, Bristol, Paris (Orly) and Nantes.

In addition, Porto Airport will expand its travel options, which now include long-distance destinations. ANA Aeroportos de Portugal/Vinci Airports adds, in a statement, that “Porto is increasingly becoming an essential gateway for regional and national tourism”.

“ANA continues to work on its commitment to the North region, by attracting more routes and connectivity, essential for the development and sustainability of regional and national tourism and economic activity”, the statement continues.

ANA affirms that the “strong recovery of traffic at Porto airport” was made possible by the investments in infrastructure.

According to an ANA statement, “Porto Airport continues to successfully increase connections to the main tourist destinations, with France, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Germany, the main passenger markets for airports outside Portugal”.

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Easyjet reopens Faro base for the summer

EasyJet stated that it will resume summer operations from its seasonal base at Gago Coutinho International Airport in Faro.

“EasyJet, the main European airline, reopened its base in Faro, inaugurated in the summer of 2021, from which it will operate 21 routes this summer”, said the air carrier in a statement.

It will have nine A320 planes in the Algarve until the end of October, with a total capacity of 2.1 million seats, up 15% from 2022, according to the same source.

The carrier detailed the locations that it serves from Faro, including Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Milan, Basel, Geneva, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, London, Glasgow, Lyon, Nantes, Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Paris.

“We can’t wait to get back in the air over the Algarve and start the new season. The reopening of the Faro base in 2021 was one of EasyJet Portugal’s largest investments to date”, said the general director José Lopes.

At the end of February, the Portuguese airport manager ANA announced that Gago Coutinho international airport would have 18 new routes and 6 new destinations in the summer, operating a total of 81 connections to 71 cities.

This increase in routes has already given the Algarve “the greatest connectivity ever”, according to João Fernandes, president of the Algarve Tourism Region (RTA), who said it was “the result of joint work between Turismo do Algarve, ANA Aeroportos and Turismo de Portugal”.

After that, the RTA president said, “we have a very substantial increase in available seats during the summer, which is 250,000 seats more than in 2019, which was the year with the highest offer ever”.

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Lagos, Algarve. Algarve tourism sector expects a busy Easter

The Algarve tourism sector has good forecasts for this Easter

Hotels in the Algarve have reported great demand for the Easter break, and this trend is expected to continue into the summer.

João Fernandes, head of the Algarve Tourism Board (RTA), predicted that the region will have accommodation occupancy rates of at least 90% around Easter, and he added that April as a whole should see occupancy rates of 65% to 70%.

Hélder Martins, president of the Association of Hotels and Tourist Enterprises of the Algarve (AHETA), sees an occupancy per room of around 70% during Easter, an increase of 3% in hotel occupancy compared to the same time in 2022.

João Fernandes expects 2023 to be a year of records in the sector due to the region’s marketing, which has resulted in successful records of passengers disembarking at Faro airport.

The president of AHETA noted that Easter “lives a lot from the Spanish market”, but the UK market is preponderant in the Algarve, along with the French and Dutch, as well as new markets like North America, which is growing despite the lack of direct flights.

AHETA’s president Hélder Martins said these visitors have arrived even in the low season after entering through Lisbon and Seville, but it’s vital to solidify this market to increase it.

According to João Fernandes, 30% of Algarve bookings are pre-paid, and there is a greater balance between direct visitor bookings and travel agency bookings.

“Everything points to another record year, but what tourism never tyres of saying is that we are optimistic, but careful because obviously there is great instability at an international level and some expectations may be frustrated due to external factors”, concluded João Fernandes.

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