Porto Airport

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.

Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport Aeroporto Sá Carneiro
IATA: OPO ICAO: LPPR
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Vinci Group
Operator	ANA Aeroportos de Portugal
Serves	Porto, Portugal
Location	11 km (6.8 mi) NW of Porto
Opened	1945
Hub for	easyJet Ryanair
Focus city for	TAP Air Portugal Transavia France Air Horizont
Elevation AMSL	69 m / 226 ft
Coordinates	41°14′08″N 008°40′41″W
Website	www.aeroportoporto.pt
Map
LPPR Location in Portugal
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 17/35 3,480 11,417 Asphalt
Statistics (2023)
Passengers 15,205,000 Passengers change 22-23 20.3% Aircraft Movements 101,710 Movements change 22-23 13.0%
Sources: ANAC, , Vinci[1] ANA Relatório Contas 2013

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 parishes of Santa Cruz do Bispo, Perafita and Lavra (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:

Airlines	Destinations
Aegean Airlines	Seasonal: Athens
Air Albania	Seasonal charter: Tirana[6][7]
Air Canada	Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau (begins 4 June 2025)[8]
Air Europa	Madrid
Air France	Paris–Charles de Gaulle[9]
Air Horizont[10]	Seasonal charter: Djerba,[11] Monastir,[12] Nador,[10] Olbia,[11] Oujda[13]
Air Nostrum	Seasonal charter: Alicante,[14] Almería,[14] Fuerteventura,[14] Girona,[15] Gran Canaria,[14] Lanzarote,[14] Menorca,[14] Murcia,[16] Oujda,[17] Palma de Mallorca,[14] Reus,[14] Tenerife–South[18]
Air Serbia	Belgrade[19]
Air Transat	Toronto–Pearson Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau
airBaltic	Seasonal: Riga[20]
Austrian Airlines	Seasonal: Vienna[21][22]
Azores Airlines	Boston,[23] New York–JFK,[23] Ponta Delgada, Terceira, Toronto–Pearson[23]
British Airways	London–Gatwick[24][25]
Brussels Airlines	Brussels[26]
easyJet	Basel/Mulhouse, Bordeaux, Bristol, Funchal, Geneva, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Luxembourg, Lyon, Marrakech,[27] Milan–Malpensa, Nantes, Nice, Paris–Orly,[28] Prague, Sal, Toulouse, Zürich Seasonal: Berlin, Glasgow,[29] Ibiza, Madrid, Manchester, Menorca,[30] Naples,[31][32] Palermo,[32] Palma de Mallorca, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Pisa, Porto Santo
Eurowings	Seasonal: Berlin,[33] Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Stuttgart
Iberia	Madrid[34]
Iberojet	Seasonal charter: Cancún,[35] Punta Cana,[36] Varna[37]
Jet2.com	Seasonal: Birmingham (begins 27 March 2025),[38] Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne (begins 22 May 2026)[39]
KLM	Amsterdam[40]
Lufthansa	Frankfurt,[41] Munich
Luxair	Luxembourg[42]
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Seasonal: Copenhagen,[43] Oslo[44]
Nouvelair	Seasonal charter: Djerba,[45] Monastir[46]
Play	Seasonal: Reykjavik–Keflavík
Privilege Style	Seasonal charter: Porto Santo[47]
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca[48]
Ryanair[49][50]	Alicante, Barcelona, Beauvais, Bergamo, Berlin, Birmingham, Bologna, Bristol,[51] Brive, Brussels, Budapest, Châlons-Vatry, Charleroi, Clermont-Ferrand, Cologne/Bonn, Dole, Dublin, Edinburgh,[52] Eindhoven, Faro, Frankfurt-Hahn, Funchal,[53] Hamburg, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Krakow, La Rochelle, Lille, London–Stansted, Luxembourg, Madrid, Málaga, Malta, Manchester, Marrakech, Marseille, Memmingen, Milan–Malpensa, Nîmes,[54] Pisa,[55] Ponta Delgada, Rome–Fiumicino,[56] Seville, Stockholm–Arlanda,[54] Strasbourg, Tangier,[57] Terceira, Toulouse,[58] Tours, Treviso, Turin,[54] Valencia, Vienna, Wrocław Seasonal: Agadir,[59] Bari,[59][60] Belfast–International,[61] Billund,[62][59] Bremen, Cagliari, Carcassonne, Castellón,[54] Copenhagen, Gran Canaria,[59] Ibiza,[63] Leeds/Bradford,[54] Liverpool, Maastricht/Aachen, Nuremberg,[64] Palma de Mallorca, Shannon,[65] Tenerife–South, Trapani,[66] Verona, Warsaw–Modlin, Weeze
Scandinavian Airlines	Copenhagen[67]
Smartwings	Seasonal charter: Boa Vista,[68] Dakar–Diass,[69] Djerba,[70] Menorca,[71] Porto Santo,[72] Sal[68]
Sun d'Or	Seasonal: Tel Aviv[73]
Swiss International Air Lines	Geneva,[74] Zürich[75]
TAAG Angola Airlines	Seasonal: Luanda[76][77]
TAP Air Portugal	Funchal, Geneva,[78] Lisbon, Luanda,[79] London–Gatwick, Luxembourg, Newark, Paris–Orly, Rio de Janeiro–Galeão, São Paulo–Guarulhos, Zürich[78] Seasonal: Ponta Delgada
Transavia	Amsterdam, Bordeaux (begins 13 December 2024),[80] Brest,[81] Funchal,[82] Lyon, Nantes, Paris–Orly Seasonal: Ponta Delgada[83]
TUI Airways	Seasonal: London–Gatwick (begins 2 May 2025)[84]
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul
United Airlines	Seasonal: Newark
Volotea	Lyon,[85] Nantes[86] Seasonal: Bilbao
Vueling	Barcelona, Bilbao, Paris–Orly Seasonal: Ibiza
Wizz Air	Rome Fiumicino Seasonal: Warsaw–Chopin
World2Fly	Seasonal charter: Punta Cana[87][88]

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
UPS Airlines[89]	Cologne/Bonn

Statistics

Airport terminal check-in hall.

Airport terminal arrivals area

Control tower

Passenger numbers

Annual passenger traffic at OPO airport. See Wikidata query.

	Passengers	% Change
2001	2,771,169
2002	2,642,420	4.6%
2003	2,675,823	1.3%
2004	2,960,553	10.6%
2005	3,108,271	5.0%
2006	3,402,763	9.5%
2007	3,986,860	17.2%
2008	4,534,829	13.7%
2009	4,508,533	0.6%
2010	5,279,716	17.1%
2011	6,004,500	13.7%
2012	6,051,081	0.8%
2013	6,374,045	5.3%
2014	6,932,614	8.8%
2015	8,088,907	16.7%
2016	9,378,206	15.9%
2017	10,790,271	15.1%
2018	11,942,333	10.7%
2019	13,112,453	9.8%
2020	4,436,370	66.2%
2021	5,841,819	31.7%
2022	12,637,645	116.3%
2023	15,205,000	20.3%
Jan–Aug 2024	10,742,000	5.3%
Source: Pordata[90] Vinci[1] INE[91]

Busiest routes

Busiest routes from Porto Airport (2019)^[92]

Rank	City, airport	Passengers	% change	Top carriers
1	Lisbon	1,010,696	10.9%	TAP Air Portugal
2	Madrid	969,724	28.1%	Air Europa, Iberia, Ryanair
3	Paris–Orly	956,886	4.8%	TAP Air Portugal, Transavia, Vueling
4	Geneva	693,892	0.7%	EasyJet, Swiss International Air Lines
5	Barcelona	692,305	16.9%	Ryanair, Vueling
6	Frankfurt	453,082	1.6%	Lufthansa, Ryanair
7	Funchal	436,849	13.9%	EasyJet, TAP Air Portugal
8	London–Gatwick	387,354	5.9%	EasyJet, TAP Air Portugal
9	London–Stansted	348,735	8.3%	Ryanair
10	Brussels	348,262	25.2%	Brussels Airlines, Ryanair

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 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.^[93]

Accidents and incidents

• On April 27, 2021 a FedEx cargo jet was cleared for takeoff while a ground vehicle was on the runway, coming within four seconds of collision before taking off over it. The Office for the Prevention and Investigation of Accidents in Civil Aviation and Rail rated the incursion a "serious incident" and initiated a safety investigation.^[94]

See also

• Transport in Portugal
• List of airports in Portugal

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External links

Media related to Porto International Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Accident history for OPO at Aviation Safety Network