Porto Santo Airport

ICAO LPPS33.0734°N 16.3500°W104 m / 341 ftMedium airport

Porto Santo Airport (IATA: PXO, ICAO: LPPS) is a medium airport in Vila Baleira, Autonomous Region of Madeira, Portugal. It opened in 1960. It has one runway, 3,006 m (9,861 ft) long, concrete. In 2025 it handled 244 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1960–1960

1960

OpenedPorto Santo Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

18/36178° / 358° · LIT

LENGTH3,006 m9,861 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2014–2025

110K

126K

159K

178K

167K

170K

53K

127K

208K

233K

244K

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Routes

6 destinations · 4 countries

Year-round3

FNCCristiano Ronaldo International AirportPortugal · Binter Canarias58 km36 mi LISLisbon Humberto Delgado AirportPortugal · easyJet908 km564 mi LUXLuxembourg-Findel International AirportLuxembourg · Luxair2,614 km1,624 mi

Seasonal3

LISLisbon Humberto Delgado AirportPortugal · TAP Air Portugal908 km564 mi OPOFrancisco de Sá Carneiro AirportPortugal · easyJet1,134 km705 mi BGYIl Caravaggio International AirportItaly · AlbaStar2,624 km1,630 mi

Seasonal charter3

LISLisbon Humberto Delgado AirportPortugal · Smartwings908 km564 mi OPOFrancisco de Sá Carneiro AirportPortugal · Smartwings, Privilege Style1,134 km705 mi PRGVáclav Havel Airport PragueCzechia · Smartwings3,136 km1,949 mi

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from PXO. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Porto Santo Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

7 airlines · destinations from PXO

Passenger7

QSSmartwingsseasonal charter · 3 U2easyJet2 APAlbaStarseasonal · 1 NTBinter Canarias1 LGLuxair1 P6Privilege Styleseasonal charter · 1 TPTAP Air Portugalseasonal · 1

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from PXO. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers244K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,449of 3,974 · #317 Europe · #8 PT Longest runway3,006 m9,861 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#1,161of 29,858 · #158 Europe · #6 PT Elevation104 m341 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=30,344of 43,403 · =3,501 Europe · #30 PT AgeOpened 19602026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=4,584of 15,079 · =930 Europe · #11 PT Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,364of 29,978 · =646 Europe · =5 PT

Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

2 channels

GCAGCA123.300

TWRTWR120.050