Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport
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| Dr. Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport Aeroporto Internacional Dr. Francisco de Sá Carneiro |
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| Airport in Porto, Portugal | |||
| IATA: OPO – ICAO: LPPR | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | ANA Aeroportos de Portugal SA | ||
| Location | Greater Porto | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 228 ft / 69 m | ||
| Coordinates | 41°14′53″N 08°40′53″W / 41.24806°N 8.68139°WCoordinates: 41°14′53″N 08°40′53″W / 41.24806°N 8.68139°W | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 17/35 | 11,417 | 3,479 | Asphalt |
Aeroporto Internacional Dr. Francisco de Sá Carneiro (IATA: OPO, ICAO: LPPR) also known as Aeroporto de Pedras Rubras, or simply Porto Airport is the international airport of Greater Porto, Portugal. It is located approximately six miles northwest of Porto city centre, in the municipalities of Maia, Matosinhos and Vila do Conde and is run by ANA Aeroportos de Portugal. The airport is currently the third busiest in the country based on airplane operations and the third busiest in passengers, based on Aeroportos de Portugal traffic statistics, after Lisbon Portela Airport and Faro Airport the larger and leading airports of the country.
It is named after a Portuguese Politician, Francisco de Sá Carneiro, who was killed in an airplane crash as he was heading to this airport. It was previously known as Aeroporto de Pedras Rubras.
On 25 February 2008, Airports Council International (ACI) announced that according to its 2007 Airport Service Quality Survey, Porto placed first overall in Europe for service and placed fourth among airports worldwide having fewer than 5 million passengers.[1]
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[edit] Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Aigle Azur | Paris-Orly |
| Air Berlin | Cologne/Bonn, Palma de Mallorca, Stuttgart [begins 4 April] |
| Air Europa | Palma de Mallorca |
| Air Transat | Montréal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson |
| Brussels Airlines | Brussels |
| EasyJet | Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva, London-Gatwick, Lyon, Milan-Malpensa, Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
| Iberia operated by Air Nostrum | Madrid |
| Lufthansa | Frankfurt |
| Luxair | Luxembourg |
| Ryanair | Birmingham [seasonal], Bordeaux, Brussels South-Charleroi, Eindhoven, Faro, Girona, Hahn, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Lille, Liverpool [seasonal], London-Stansted, Madrid, Marseille, Milan-Orio al Serio, Paris-Beauvais, Saint-Étienne, Tenerife-South, Tours, Weeze |
| SATA International | Boston, Ponta Delgada, Toronto-Pearson |
| Swiss International Air Lines | Zürich [begins 4 July] |
| TAP Portugal | Caracas, Funchal, Geneva, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow, Newark, Paris-Orly, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Zürich |
| TAP operated by Portugália | Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, Geneva, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan-Malpensa, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino |
| Transavia.com | Paris-Orly |
[edit] Cargo
- Air France (Paris-CDG)
[edit] Charter
- Skyservice (Toronto-Pearson)
[edit] Metro and buses
The airport is served by Line E of the Porto Metro, linking it to downtown Porto, pendolino trains and Estádio do Dragão, and by transfer to other urban centres of Greater Porto: in Verdes station to Vila do Conde and Póvoa de Varzim (using line B), Fonte do Cuco station to Maia (line C), and Senhora da Hora station to Matosinhos (line A). Taxis and STCP buses also link the airport and the city. There is also a bus service to/from Vigo (Galicia/Spain) twice a day on weekdays, and once a day during the weekend.
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Category:Porto International Airport |
- Aeroportos de Portugal
- Airport information for LPPR at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
[edit] References
- ^ "Airport Service Quality Awards 2007". Airports Council International (ACI). February 25, 2008. http://www.aci.aero/cda/aci_common/display/main/aci_content07_c.jsp?zn=aci&cp=1-7-46^21375_666_2__. Retrieved 2008-07-20.
