Terminal
Faro has been in operation since 1965 and, in ANA’s own words, is “the main tourist airport in Portugal.” A 2017 expansion — a €32.8 million project — enlarged the building from 81,200 m² to 93,120 m² and raised its capacity from 2,400 to 3,000 passengers an hour. 2025 — the airport’s 60th-anniversary year — brought its first year above 10 million passengers, connected to 22 countries and 77 destinations by 33 airlines.
The 2017 works added a concrete cover over Check-in 2 (4,770 m²) and expanded the public arrival and departure areas along the building’s north front — all inside the same terminal; ANA has never numbered a separate “Terminal 2” for Faro in any document reviewed.
That expansion also built a new Security Control Area on the terminal’s 2nd floor, part of what ANA describes as the airport’s response to tighter airport-security requirements.
ANA’s own guidance sends passengers to Faro’s Bus Station in the city by bus; the railway station that reaches the Algarve’s main towns sits about 6 km from that Bus Station — there is no train station at the terminal itself.