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
LPLA 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[1]

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

Check-in area

Apron view

Lajes Airport not only serves Terceira but is also a hub providing international access to the Azores. It shares a runway and control and support structures with the military Lajes Field. Its runway is the longest among the airports of the Azores, measuring about 3300 meters in length. Aerogare Civil das Lajes (ACL) has a capacity of 750,000 passengers per year and 360 passengers per hour as of the last requalification. It is the closest international airport in Europe measured from eastern United States, for example 3,969 kilometres (2,466 mi) from New York.[2][3]

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Lajes Airport:

Airlines	Destinations
Azores Airlines	Boston,[4] Lisbon, Porto, Toronto–Pearson[5] Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau,[6] New York–JFK,[6]
Edelweiss Air	Seasonal: Zurich (begins 25 June 2025)[7]
Ryanair	Lisbon, Porto
SATA Air Açores[6]	Corvo, Flores, Graciosa, Horta, Pico, Ponta Delgada, São Jorge
TAP Air Portugal	Lisbon[8] Seasonal: San Francisco (begins 3 June 2025)[9]
TUI fly Netherlands	Seasonal: Amsterdam

Accidents and incidents

• On August 24, 2001, Air Transat Flight 236 suffered from fuel exhaustion over the Atlantic Ocean due to a fuel leak. The pilots diverted to Lajes and landed safely.[10]

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at TER airport. See Wikidata query.

References

1. AIP Part 3 - AD 2 Aerodromes Archived 2012-04-15 at the Wayback Machine
2. "Google Maps".
3. When measured from northern and western United States, Keflavik is closer.
4. "Azores Airlines Expands Funchal – North America Routes in NS24".
5. "Azores Airlines Expands Funchal – North America Routes in NS24".
6. "Azores Airlines destination information" (PDF).
7. "Edelweiss Air NS25 Short-Haul Network Additions – 30OCT24". Aeroroutes. Aeroroutes. Retrieved 31 October 2024.
8. Liu, Jim (4 December 2024). "TAP Air Portugal NS25 US Network Expansion". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 27 December 2024.
9. https://airlinegeeks.com/2024/12/03/tap-adds-three-new-u-s-routes/
10. "Accident Airbus A330-243 C-GITS, Friday 24 August 2001". asn.flightsafety.org. Retrieved 2024-10-15.

External links

• Official site