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
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
Map
LPPR is located in Portugal
LPPR
LPPR
Location in Portugal
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
17/35 3,480 11,417 Asphalt
Statistics (2022)
Passengers12,638,000
Passengers change 21-22Increase 116.3%
Aircraft Movements90,134
Movements change 21-22Increase 74.0%
Sources: ANAC, , , 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).[1] It includes an area of between 72 metres (236 ft) in the extreme south and 43 metres (141 ft) in the north.[1] The southern portion of the airport intersects the hydrographic watershed of the Leça River, while the north is crossed by effluents of Onda River.[1]

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.[1]

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.[2]

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.[2]

A new terminal building, designed by Portuguese firm ICQ, was built between 2003 and 2006, and became operational in the last quarter of 2006.[3]

Porto Airport reached ten million passengers in a year for the first time on 6 December 2017.[4]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

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

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Athens
Air Albania Seasonal charter: Tirana[5][6]
Air Europa Madrid
Air France Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Air Horizont[7] Seasonal charter: Djerba,[8] Nador,[7] Olbia[8]
Air Nostrum Seasonal charter: Alicante,[9] Almería,[9] Fuerteventura,[9] Gran Canaria,[9] Lanzarote,[9] Menorca,[9] Oujda,[10] Palma de Mallorca,[9] Reus[9]
Air Serbia Belgrade (begins 10 November 2023)[11]
Air Transat Toronto–Pearson
Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau
airBaltic Seasonal: Riga[12]
Austrian Airlines Vienna[13]
Azores Airlines Boston (begins 4 June 2024),[14] New York–JFK (begins 3 June 2024),[14] Ponta Delgada, Terceira, Toronto–Pearson (begins 1 June 2024)[14]
British Airways London–Gatwick (resumes 29 October 2023),[15] London–Heathrow (ends 28 October 2023)[15]
Brussels Airlines Brussels
easyJet Basel/Mulhouse, Bordeaux, Bristol, Funchal, Geneva, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Luxembourg, Lyon, Madrid, Manchester, Marrakech (begins 29 October 2023),[16] Milan–Malpensa, Nantes, Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Pisa (begins 1 November 2023),[16] Prague, Rennes, Toulouse, Zürich
Seasonal: Berlin, Glasgow,[17] Ibiza, Naples,[18][19] Palermo,[19] Palma de Mallorca, Paris–Orly,[20] Porto Santo
Eurowings Berlin,[21] Düsseldorf
Seasonal: Hamburg, Stuttgart
Iberia Madrid
Iberojet Seasonal charter: Cancun,[22] Punta Cana,[23] Varna[24]
KLM Amsterdam
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair Luxembourg
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Copenhagen,[25] Oslo[26]
Nouvelair Seasonal charter: Djerba,[27] Monastir[28]
Play Seasonal: Reykjavik–Keflavík
Privilege Style Seasonal charter: Porto Santo[29]
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca[30]
Ryanair Alicante, Barcelona, Beauvais, Belfast–International (begins 29 October 2023),[31] Bergamo, Berlin, Birmingham, Bologna, Bordeaux, Bristol,[32] Brive, Brussels, Budapest, Châlons-Vatry, Charleroi, Clermont-Ferrand, Cologne/Bonn, Dole, Dortmund, Dublin, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Faro, Funchal,[33] Hahn,[34] Hamburg, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Krakow, La Rochelle, Leeds/Bradford,[35] Lille, London–Stansted, Luxembourg, Maastricht/Aachen, Madrid, Málaga, Malta, Manchester, Marrakech, Marseille, Memmingen, Milan–Malpensa, Nîmes,[35] Ponta Delgada, Rome–Ciampino, Seville, Stockholm–Arlanda,[35] Strasbourg, Tenerife–South, Terceira, Toulouse, Tours, Treviso, Turin,[35] Valencia, Vienna, Warsaw–Modlin, Wrocław
Seasonal: Agadir,[36] Bari,[37][34] Bergerac, Billund,[38][39] Bremen, Cagliari, Carcassonne, Castellón,[35] Copenhagen, Gran Canaria,[40] Liverpool, Nuremberg,[41] Palma de Mallorca, Shannon,[42] Trapani,[43] Verona, Weeze
Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen[44]
Smartwings Seasonal charter: Dakar–Diass (resumes 3 June 2024)[45]
Sun d'Or Seasonal: Tel Aviv[46]
Swiss International Air Lines Geneva, Zürich
TAAG Angola Airlines Seasonal: Luanda[47][48]
TAP Air Portugal Funchal, Geneva, Lisbon, Luanda,[49] London–Gatwick, Luxembourg, Newark, Paris–Orly, Rio de Janeiro–Galeão, São Paulo–Guarulhos, Zürich
Seasonal: Ponta Delgada
Transavia Amsterdam, Brest,[50] Funchal (resumes 4 November 2023),[51] Lyon, Nantes, Paris–Orly
Seasonal: Ponta Delgada[52]
Turkish Airlines Istanbul
United Airlines Seasonal: Newark
Volotea Nantes (begins 22 September 2023)[53]
Seasonal: Bilbao
Vueling Barcelona, Bilbao, Paris–Orly
Seasonal: Ibiza, Tenerife–North
Wizz Air Milan–Malpensa, Rome Fiumicino
Seasonal: Warsaw–Chopin
World2Fly Seasonal charter: Punta Cana[54][55]

Cargo
AirlinesDestinations
UPS Airlines[56] Cologne/Bonn

Statistics
Airport terminal check-in hall.
Airport terminal arrivals area.
Aerial view of the airport terminal.
Control tower.

Passenger numbers
Annual passenger traffic at OPO airport. See Wikidata query.
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%
Jan–Aug 2023 10,197,000Increase 24.3%
Source: Pordata[57] INE[58]

Busiest routes
Busiest routes from Porto Airport (2019)[59]
Rank City, airport Passengers  %
change
 Top carriers
1 Lisboa 1,010,696 Decrease 10.9% TAP Air Portugal
2 Madrid 969,724 Increase 28.1% Air Europa, Iberia, Ryanair
3 Paris-Orly 956,886 Decrease 4.8% TAP Air Portugal, Transavia, Vueling
4 Geneva 693,892 Increase 0.7% EasyJet, Swiss International Air Lines
5 Barcelona 692,305 Increase 16.9% Ryanair, Vueling
6 Frankfurt 453,082 Increase 1.6% Lufthansa, Ryanair
7 Funchal 436,849 Increase 13.9% EasyJet, TAP Air Portugal
8 London-Gatwick 387,354 Increase 5.9% EasyJet, TAP Air Portugal
9 London-Stansted 348,735 Increase 8.3% Ryanair
10 Brussels 348,262 Increase 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. Also there is a 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 min direct connections to the towns of Braga and Guimarães.

Further proposals

The proposed Porto–Vigo high-speed rail line would be built via the airport.[60]

Accolades

Airports Council International Airport Service Quality Awards voted the airport Best Airport in Europe in 2007. Additionally, it has placed in the top three of Best Airport in Europe a further nine times – winning second place in 2010, and third place in 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016.[61][62]

Accidents and incidents

See also

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