Madeira International Airport Cristiano Ronaldo

Madeira International Airport Cristiano Ronaldo (LPMA) is a large airport in Funchal, 30, Portugal. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code LPMA or IATA code FNC. It sits in Europe.

Madeira International Airport Cristiano Ronaldo is a commercial-airline hub that also handles a steady stream of private and corporate traffic. Mixed commercial and private operations mean planners should expect slot coordination, handling agent involvement, and the usual international hub procedures.

Madeira International Airport Cristiano Ronaldo sits near sea level at 192 ft.

Local operations run on Atlantic/Madeira. Because the field hosts scheduled airline operations, private operators should expect a defined slot environment, possible CDM coordination at peak banks, and limited ramp availability during major event weekends. Booking FBO ramp space in advance is normal practice.

SkyAccess currently tracks 1 departing and 0 arriving private-jet legs at LPMA across the next six months of operator inventory. 1 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.

As one of the larger fields in Portugal, LPMA tends to be the natural choice for long-range international charters and crew-rest-required flights.

Cristiano Ronaldo International Airport — also known as Madeira Airport, Funchal Airport, and formerly Santa Catarina Airport — is an international airport in the civil parish of Santa Cruz in the Portuguese archipelago and autonomous region of Madeira. The airport is located 13.2 km (8.2 mi) east-northeast of the regional capital, Funchal, after which it is sometimes informally named. It mostly hosts flights to European metropolitan destinations due to Madeira's importance as a leisure destination, and is pivotal in the movement of cargo in and out of the archipelago of Madeira. It is the fourth-busiest airport in Portugal, although in January 2025 and January 2026 it surpassed Faro. The airport is named after footballer and Madeiran native Cristiano Ronaldo. During its renaming ceremony in 2017, the airport drew media notoriety for an infamous bust of Ronaldo unveiled at the ceremony, now replaced.