Porto Airport
Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport Aeroporto Francisco Sá Carneiro | |||||||||||
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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 / 41.24806°N 8.68139°W | ||||||||||
Website | www.ana.pt | ||||||||||
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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 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.
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.[1]
Airlines and destinations
Airlines | Destinations |
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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, Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
EasyJet Switzerland | Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva |
Europe Airpost | Seasonal: Strasbourg |
Iberia operated by Air Nostrum | Madrid |
Lufthansa | Frankfurt |
Luxair | Luxembourg |
Ryanair | Beauvais-Tillé, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Brussels South-Charleroi, 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, Châlons-en-Champagne, Dublin, La Rochelle, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Liverpool, Maastricht, Pisa, Rodez |
SATA International | Ponta Delgada, Toronto-Pearson Seasonal: Terceira |
Sunwing Airlines | Seasonal: Toronto-Pearson |
Swiss International Air Lines | Seasonal: Zürich |
TAAG Angola Airlines | Luanda [2] |
TAP Portugal | 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 | Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, Lisbon, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino |
Transavia.com France | Funchal, Nantes, Paris-Orly |
Cargo
Airlines | Destinations |
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Air France Cargo | Mexico City, Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
FedEx Feeder operated by Air Contractors | Dublin |
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.
References
- ^ "Airport Service Quality Awards 2007". Airports Council International (ACI). 25 February 2008. Retrieved 20 July 2008.
- ^ http://luandadigital.com/noticias.php?noticia=268435797
External links
Media related to Porto International Airport at Wikimedia Commons