Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport

Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport Aeroporto Francisco Sá Carneiro
Airport in Porto, Portugal
IATA: OPO – ICAO: LPPR OPO Location of airport in Portugal
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		Government of Portugal.
Operator		ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal, SA
Serves		Porto
Location		Greater Porto
Elevation AMSL		228 ft / 69 m
Coordinates		41°14′53″N 08°40′53″W
Website		www.ana.pt
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
17/35	11,417	3,479	Asphalt
Statistics (2011)
Aircraft Movements			60,070
Passengers			6,003,408
Sources: ANA

Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport (IATA: OPO, ICAO: LPPR) or simply Porto Airport is an international airport near 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 second busiest in the country based on aircraft operations and the second busiest in passengers, based on Aeroportos de Portugal traffic statistics, after Lisbon Portela Airport and before Faro Airport.

It is named after a Portuguese Prime Minister, 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. The airport is a base for Ryanair and a focus city for TAP Portugal.

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.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Aigle Azur	Paris-Orly
Air Berlin	Palma de Mallorca
Air Transat	Toronto-Pearson Seasonal: Montreal-Trudeau
Brussels Airlines	Brussels
EasyJet	London-Gatwick, Lyon, Milan-Malpensa, Toulouse [begins 31 March 2012], Paris-Charles de Gaulle
EasyJet Switzerland	Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva
Europe Airpost	Seasonal:Brussels, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Strasbourg
Iberia operated by Air Nostrum	Madrid
Lufthansa	Frankfurt
Luxair	Luxembourg
Ryanair	Beauvais-Tillé, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Brussels South-Charleroi, Châlons-en-Champagne, Eindhoven, Faro, Hahn, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Lille, London-Stansted, Madrid, Marrakech, Marseille, Memmingen, Milan-Orio al Serio, Rome-Ciampino, Saint-Étienne, Tenerife South, Tours, Valencia, Weeze Seasonal: Bologna, Bremen, Carcassonne, Dublin, La Rochelle, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Liverpool, Maastricht, Pisa
SATA International	Ponta Delgada, Toronto-Pearson Seasonal: Terceira
Sunwing Airlines	Seasonal: Toronto-Pearson
Swiss International Air Lines	Seasonal: Zürich
TAAG Angola Airlines	Luanda
TAP Portugal	Amsterdam, Caracas, Funchal, Geneva, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, Luxembourg, Newark, Paris-Orly, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Zürich Seasonal: Porto Santo
TAP Portugal operated by Portugália	Barcelona, Brussels, Lisbon, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino
Transavia.com France	Funchal, Madeira, Nantes, Paris-Orly

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
Air France Cargo	Mexico City, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
FedEx Feeder operated by Air Contractors	Dublin
Med Airlines Maroc	Tangier

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.

External links

Media related to Porto International Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Aeroportos de Portugal
• Airport information for LPPR at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.