Porto Airport

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Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport (IATA: OPO, ICAO: LPPR) or simply Porto Airport (formerly Pedras Rubras Airport) is an international airport near Porto (Oporto), Portugal. It is located 11 km (6.8 mi) northwest of the Clérigos Tower (in the centre of Porto). Its location is split between the municipalities of Maia, Matosinhos and Vila do Conde. The airport is run by ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal and 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 Airport and before Faro Airport. The airport is a base for easyJet, Ryanair, TAP Air Portugal and its subsidiary TAP Express.

Airport typePublic
OwnerVinci Group
OperatorANA Aeroportos de Portugal
ServesPorto, Portugal
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Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport
Aeroporto Sá Carneiro
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerVinci Group
OperatorANA Aeroportos de Portugal
ServesPorto, Portugal
Location11 km (6.8 mi) NW of Porto
Opened1945
Hub for
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL69 m / 226 ft
Coordinates41°14′08″N 008°40′41″W
Websitewww.aeroportoporto.pt
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LPPR is located in Portugal
LPPR
LPPR
Location in Portugal
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
17/35 3,480 11,417 Asphalt
Statistics (2025)
Passengers16,939,000
Passengers change 24-25Increase 6.3%
Aircraft Movements109,620
Movements change 24-25Increase 5.4%
Sources: ANAC, , Vinci[1] ANA Relatório Contas 2013
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Location

The airport is surrounded by the municipalities of Matosinhos (to the south and west) and Vila do Conde (to the north) and Maia (to the east). It covers the parish of Perafita, Lavra e Santa Cruz do Bispo (in Matosinhos); Aveleda and Vilar do Pinheiro (Vila do Conde); and Vila Nova da Telha and Moreira (Maia).[2] It includes an area of between 72 metres (236 ft) in the extreme south and 43 metres (141 ft) in the north.[2][clarification needed] The southern portion of the airport intersects the hydrographic watershed of the Leça River, while the north is crossed by effluents of Onda River.[2]

History

The airport around Porto opened in 1945 and was initially known as Pedras Rubras Airport, after the name for the locality where the airport is located: Pedras Rubras ("red rocks"). It is still known by this name in the region. The land on which the airport was built was originally agricultural, characterised by rich soils that permitted the cultivation of various cereals.[2]

It was renamed in 1990 after former Portuguese prime minister, Francisco de Sá Carneiro, who died in a plane crash when he was traveling to this airport on 4 December 1980.[3]

Along with the airports in Lisbon, Faro, Ponta Delgada, Santa Maria, Horta, Flores, Madeira, and Porto Santo, the airport's concessions to provide support to civil aviation were conceded to ANA Aeroportos de Portugal on 18 December 1998, under provisions of decree 404/98. With this concession, ANA became responsible for the planning, development and construction of future infrastructure.[3]

A new terminal building, designed by Portuguese firm ICQ, was built between 2003 and 2006, and became operational in the last quarter of 2006.[4]

Porto Airport reached ten million passengers in a year for the first time on 6 December 2017.[5][better source needed]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

The following airlines operate regular scheduled direct passenger flights at Porto Airport:

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AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Athens[6]
Air Canada Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau[7][8]
Air Europa Madrid[9]
Air France Paris–Charles de Gaulle[10]
Air Horizont[11] Seasonal charter: Nador[11]
Air Serbia Seasonal: Belgrade[12]
Air Transat Toronto–Pearson[13]
Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau[14]
airBaltic Seasonal: Riga[15]
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna[16][17]
Azores Airlines Ponta Delgada,[18] Terceira
Azul Brazilian Airlines Campinas,[19] Recife[20]
British Airways London–Gatwick[21][22]
Brussels Airlines Brussels[23]
Bulgaria Air Seasonal: Sofia [24]
Cabo Verde Airlines Seasonal: Sal[25]
Chair Airlines Seasonal: Zurich (begins 27 June 2026)[26]
Delta Air Lines Seasonal: New York–JFK (begins 21 May 2026)[27]
easyJet Basel/Mulhouse,[28] Boa Vista,[29] Bordeaux,[30] Bristol,[28] Funchal,[28] Geneva,[28] London–Gatwick,[31] London–Luton,[32] Luxembourg,[30] Lyon,[28] Marrakesh,[33] Milan–Linate,[34] Milan–Malpensa,[35] Nantes,[28] Nice,[30] Paris–Orly,[36] Prague,[37] Praia,[29] Sal,[38] São Vicente,[39] Zurich[30]
Seasonal: Berlin,[28] Glasgow,[40] Ibiza,[30] Manchester,[28] Menorca,[41][42] Naples,[43][44] Palermo,[44] Palma de Mallorca,[28] Porto Santo,[37] Split[45]
Ethiopian Airlines Addis Ababa[46]
Eurowings Cologne/Bonn,[47] Düsseldorf[48]
Seasonal: Berlin,[49][50] Hamburg,[51] Stuttgart[52]
Iberia Madrid[53]
Iberojet Seasonal charter: Cancún,[54] Punta Cana,[55] Varna[56]
Jet2.com Manchester[57]
Seasonal: Birmingham,[58] Newcastle upon Tyne[59]
KLM Amsterdam[60]
LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw–Chopin (begins 25 May 2026)[61]
Lufthansa Frankfurt,[62] Munich[62]
Luxair Luxembourg[63]
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Billund,[64] Copenhagen,[65] Oslo,[66] Stockholm–Arlanda[67]
Nouvelair Seasonal charter: Monastir[68]
Privilege Style Seasonal charter: Porto Santo[69]
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca[70]
Ryanair[71][72] Alicante,[73] Barcelona,[73] Beauvais,[73] Bergamo,[73] Berlin,[73] Birmingham,[73] Bologna,[28] Bristol,[74] Brussels,[73] Budapest,[28] Châlons-Vatry,[28] Charleroi,[28] Clermont-Ferrand,[28] Cologne/Bonn,[28] Copenhagen,[73] Dole,[28] Dublin,[73] Edinburgh,[75] Eindhoven,[28] Faro,[73] Funchal,[76] Gothenburg,[77] Hahn,[28] Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden,[73] Krakow,[28] Lille,[28] London–Stansted,[78] Luxembourg,[28] Madrid,[73] Málaga,[73] Malta,[28] Manchester,[73] Marrakesh,[73] Marseille,[73] Memmingen,[28] Milan–Malpensa,[28] Pisa,[79] Ponta Delgada,[28] Rabat,[80] Rome–Fiumicino,[81] Seville,[73] Stockholm–Arlanda,[82] Tangier,[83] Terceira,[28] Toulouse,[84] Tours,[28] Treviso,[28] Turin,[82] Valencia,[73] Vienna,[73] Warsaw–Chopin,[85] Weeze,[73] Wrocław[86]
Seasonal: Agadir,[87] Bari,[87][88] Belfast–International,[89] Cagliari,[28] Carcassonne,[28] Castellón,[82] Gran Canaria,[87] Ibiza,[90] Leeds/Bradford,[82] Liverpool,[28] Nuremberg,[91] Palma de Mallorca,[73] Shannon,[92] Tenerife–South,[73] Trapani,[93] Verona,[28] Warsaw–Modlin[28]
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Copenhagen[94]
Smartwings Prague[95]
Seasonal charter: Boa Vista,[96] Dakar–Diass,[97] Djerba,[98] Menorca,[99] Porto Santo,[100] Sal[96]
Sundor Seasonal: Tel Aviv[101]
SunExpress Seasonal: İzmir[102]
Swiss International Air Lines Geneva,[103] Zurich[104]
TAAG Angola Airlines Seasonal: Luanda–Agostinho Neto[105]
TAP Air Portugal Boston[106][107], Funchal, Geneva,[108] Lisbon,[109] Luanda,[110] London–Gatwick, Luxembourg,[111] Newark,[112] Paris–Orly,[113] Praia (begins 1 July 2026),[114] Rio de Janeiro–Galeão, São Paulo–Guarulhos,[115] Tel Aviv (begins 25 October 2026),[116] Terceira,[117] Zurich[108]
Transavia Amsterdam,[118] Nantes,[119][120] Paris–Orly[121]
Seasonal: Bordeaux,[122] Brest,[123] Lyon
Turkish Airlines Istanbul[124]
United Airlines Newark[125]
Volotea Bilbao,[126], Granada (begins 3 November 2026),[127] Lyon,[128] Nantes[129]
Seasonal: Rodez,[130] Strasbourg[131]
Vueling Barcelona,[132] Bilbao,[133] Paris–Orly[132]
Seasonal: Ibiza[134]
Wizz Air Bucharest–Otopeni,[135] Katowice,[136] Rome–Fiumicino[137]
Seasonal: Warsaw–Chopin[138]
World2Fly Seasonal charter: Punta Cana[139][140]
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Cargo

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AirlinesDestinations
UPS Airlines[141] Cologne/Bonn
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Statistics

Airport terminal check-in hall.
Airport terminal arrivals area
Control tower

Passenger numbers

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Passengers% Change
2001 2,771,169
2002 2,642,420Decrease 4.6%
2003 2,675,823Increase 1.3%
2004 2,960,553Increase 10.6%
2005 3,108,271Increase 5.0%
2006 3,402,763Increase 9.5%
2007 3,986,860Increase 17.2%
2008 4,534,829Increase 13.7%
2009 4,508,533Decrease 0.6%
2010 5,279,716Increase 17.1%
2011 6,004,500Increase 13.7%
2012 6,051,081Increase 0.8%
2013 6,374,045Increase 5.3%
2014 6,932,614Increase 8.8%
2015 8,088,907Increase 16.7%
2016 9,378,206Increase 15.9%
2017 10,790,271Increase 15.1%
2018 11,942,333Increase 10.7%
2019 13,112,453Increase 9.8%
2020 4,436,370Decrease 66.2%
2021 5,841,819Increase 31.7%
2022 12,637,645Increase 116.3%
2023 15,204,946Increase 20.3%
2024 15,929,689Increase 4.8%
2025 16,939,000Increase 6.3%
Jan–Feb 2026 2,116,000Increase 7.7%
Source: Pordata[142] Vinci[1][143][144] INE[145]
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Busiest routes

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Top 10 busiest routes from Porto in 2024[146]
Rank Airport Passengers Airlines
1 Paris–Orly 1,139,251 TAP Air Portugal, Transavia, Vueling
2 Madrid 1,041,654 Air Europa, Iberia, Ryanair
3 Geneva 820,413 easyJet, Swiss International Air Lines
4 Lisbon 755,832 TAP Air Portugal
5 Barcelona 702,654 Ryanair, Vueling
6 Funchal 608,592 easyJet, TAP Air Portugal
7 Luxembourg 499,559 easyJet, Luxair, TAP Air Portugal
8 Zurich 461,908 easyJet, Swiss Air Lines, TAP Air Portugal
9 London–Gatwick 424,708 British Airways, easyJet, TAP Air Portugal
10 Amsterdam Schiphol 420,162 KLM, Transavia
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Ground transport

Besides taxi services and the road link, there are several public transportation links available:

Metro

The airport's metro station

The airport is served by Aeroporto station, on line E of the Porto Metro. The station has three platforms and the trains leave the arrival platform and reverse into one of the departure platforms.

The service links the airport to Porto city center and by transfer in Trindade station to high-speed trains at Campanhã, and 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), Senhora da Hora station to Matosinhos (line A), and Trindade station to V.N.Gaia (line D) and to Rio Tinto/Fânzeres (line F).

Car

Sá Carneiro airport is accessible via the A41 and A28 motorways, but also the EN13 highway (using the EN107 accessway). These roadways lead to drop-off and pick-up areas and short and long-stay car parks. It can also be reached by the A4 motorway through the VRI accessway.

Bus

STCP buses also link the airport and the city. There is also a bus that operates all night from Porto city centre to the airport. There is also bus service to/from Vigo (Galicia/Spain) twice a day on weekdays, and once a day during the weekend.

Shuttle

The GetBUS shuttle provides 50-minute direct connections to the towns of Braga and Guimarães.

Further proposals

As of 2020, the proposed Porto–Vigo high-speed rail line would be built via the airport.[147]

Accidents and incidents

See also

References

External links

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