Ponta Delgada Airport: Difference between revisions

With 1,3 million passengers in 2015, the <b>João Paulo II Airport</b> located in Ponta Delgada on the island of São Miguel is the busiest airport of the Azores archipelago. This airport is the hub for Azores Airlines that operate both wide-bodies and narrow-bodies and represent a vast majority of flights at PDL. They are slowly retiring their fleet of A310s which you can still see here (as of autumn 2016) and replacing them with A330s. Azores Airlines additionally feature a fleet of A320s and its parent company, SATA Air Açores, also a couple of Bombardier Dash 8s. For a long time, TAP Air Portugal was the only other carrier operating flights to the Azores, even with their A330s. However, in the last years they only fly an A320 to Ponta Delgada, presumably as a result of the competition from lowcost carriers like EasyJet and Ryanair that entered the Azorean market in 2015. Ponta Delgada is not a busy airport, but with good timing and knowledge of the flight schedules, you can certainly spend a great afternoon here.