Lajes Airport
Lajes Field or Lajes Air Base, officially designated Air Base No. 4 (IATA: TER), is a Portuguese Air Force facility home to the Azores Air Zone Command Base Aerea nº 4 and to a United States Air Force detachment, and located near Lajes on Terceira Island in the Azores, Portugal. Located about 2,300 mi (3,680 km) east of New York City and about 1,000 mi (1,600 km) west of Lisbon, Portugal, the base sits in a strategic location midway between North America and Europe in the North Atlantic Ocean. The USAF part of the base is operated by the 65th Air Base Wing of United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE).
Lajes provides support to 15,000 aircraft including fighters from the US and 20 other allied nations each year. The geographic position has made this airbase strategically important to both the United States and NATO's war fighting capability. In addition, a small commercial aviation terminal handles scheduled and chartered flights from North America and Europe, especially mainland Portugal. It also supervises commercial air traffic with the other islands in the Azorean archipelago and transatlantic refuelling and stopovers for commercial airlines, executive and corporate jets, air cargo haulers, small private aircraft, governmental flights, humanitarian missions, and other flights.
Here are some of the major Airlines that service Lajes Field:
- Arkefly
- SATA Air Açores
- SATA International
- TAP Air Portugal
The above mentioned information is taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajes_Field