Lajes Airport

For the airport serving Lages, Brazil, see Lages Airport.

For military use of the airfield, see Lajes Field.

Lajes Airport Base Aérea das Lajes Aeroporto das Lajes
IATA: TER ICAO: LPLA
Summary
Airport type	Civil
Serves	Praia da Vitória/Angra do Heroísmo
Location	Lajes
Built	1934
Elevation AMSL	55 m / 180 ft
Coordinates	38°45′43″N 027°05′27″W
Map
TER Location of Lajes Field in the Azores
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 15/33 3,314 10,873 Asphalt
Statistics (2016)
Passengers 631,236 Aircraft operations 5,415 Metric tonnes of cargo 2,774
Source: Portuguese AIP

Lajes Airport (IATA: TER, ICAO: LPLA) is located in the parish and Vila das Lajes, in the municipality of Praia da Vitória, on Terceira Island, in the Azores.

Overview

It is an airport infrastructure that, besides serving Terceira, is an access point to the outside of the internal air transport network of the Azores. It shares the runway and control and support structures (with the exception of the passenger terminal and the plate) with the military Lajes Field. Its runway is the most extensive among the airports of the Azores, measuring about 4,000 meters in length. Aerogare Civil das Lajes (ACL) has a capacity of 750,000 passengers / year and 360 passengers / hour after the last re-qualification works.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Azores Airlines	Boston, Lisbon, Porto, Toronto–Pearson Seasonal: Oakland
British Airways	Seasonal: London–Heathrow (begins 10 July 2022)
Ryanair	Lisbon, Porto
SATA Air Açores	Corvo, Flores, Graciosa, Horta, Pico, Ponta Delgada, São Jorge
TAP Air Portugal	Lisbon
TUI fly Netherlands	Seasonal: Amsterdam

Statistics

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