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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, 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 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	TAP Air Portugal
Focus city for	easyJet Ryanair Transavia France
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 (2019)
Passengers 13.105.000 Passengers change 18-19 9.8% Aircraft Movements 96,537 Movements change 18-19 4.9%
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 passenger per 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:

Airlines	Destinations
Aegean Airlines	Seasonal: Athens
Air Europa	Madrid
Air France	Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Air Transat	Toronto–Pearson Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau
airBaltic	Seasonal: Riga (begins 1 May 2023)[5]
Austrian Airlines	Seasonal: Vienna (begins 1 April 2023)[6]
Azores Airlines	Ponta Delgada, Terceira
British Airways	London–Heathrow
Brussels Airlines	Brussels
easyJet	Basel/Mulhouse, Bordeaux, Bristol, Funchal, Geneva, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Luxembourg, Lyon, Madrid, Manchester, Milan–Malpensa, Nantes, Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Rennes, Toulouse, Zürich Seasonal: Berlin, Ibiza, Palma de Mallorca, Prague, Porto Santo
Eurowings	Düsseldorf Seasonal: Hamburg, Stuttgart
Flyr	Seasonal: Oslo
Iberia	Madrid
Iberojet	Seasonal charter: Punta Cana[7]
KLM	Amsterdam
Lufthansa	Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair	Luxembourg
PLAY	Seasonal: Reykjavik–Keflavík (begins 6 April 2023)[8]
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca (resumes 9 December 2022)[9]
Ryanair	Agadir, Alicante, Barcelona, Bari,[10] Beauvais, Bergamo, Bergerac, Berlin, Billund,[11] Birmingham, Bologna, Bordeaux, Brive, Brussels, Budapest, Châlons-Vatry, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Dortmund, Dublin, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Faro, Funchal,[12] Gran Canaria, Hahn,[10] Hamburg, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Krakow, Lille, London–Stansted, Luxembourg, Maastricht-Aachen, Madrid, Málaga, Malta, Manchester, Marrakech, Marseille, Memmingen, Milan–Malpensa, Ponta Delgada, Rome–Ciampino, Seville, Strasbourg, Tenerife–South, Terceira, Treviso, Toulouse, Tours, Valencia, Vienna, Warsaw–Modlin, Wrocław (begins 11 December 2022)[13] Seasonal: Bremen, Cagliari, Carcassonne, Clermont-Ferrand, Dole, Fez (ends 27 October 2022), La Rochelle, Liverpool, Nuremberg,[14] Palma de Mallorca, Verona, Weeze
Swiss International Air Lines	Geneva, Zürich
TAAG Angola Airlines	Seasonal: Luanda (resumes 12 December 2022)[15]
TAP Air Portugal	Funchal, Geneva, Lisbon, London–Gatwick, Luxembourg, Newark, Paris–Orly, Ponta Delgada, Rio de Janeiro–Galeão, São Paulo–Guarulhos, Zürich
Transavia	Amsterdam, Brest,[16] Funchal, Lyon, Nantes, Paris–Orly Seasonal: Ponta Delgada[17]
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul
United Airlines	Seasonal: Newark
Volotea	Seasonal: Bilbao
Vueling	Barcelona, Bilbao, Paris–Orly Seasonal: Ibiza, Tenerife–North
Wizz Air	Budapest, London–Luton, Rome–Fiumicino (begins 13 December 2022)[18] Seasonal: Milan–Malpensa, Warsaw–Chopin
World2Fly	Seasonal charter: Punta Cana[19][20]

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
UPS Airlines[21]	Cologne/Bonn

Statistics

Busiest routes from Porto Airport (2019)[22]

Rank	City, airport	Passengers	% change	Top carriers
1	Lisboa	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 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.[23]

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.[24][25]

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.[26] YouTube channel 'VASAviation'[27] has a recorded instance of the communications between Porto's Tower and the aircraft involved, FedEx Contractor Flight 'Quality 4959' [28]

See also

• Transport in Portugal
• List of airports in Portugal

References

Citations

Bibliography

• ANA, ed. (January 2007), Plano Director: Aeroporto Francisco Sá Carneiro [Porto] (PDF) (in Portuguese), Porto, Portugal: ANA Aeroportos de Portugal, archived from the original (PDF) on 2 January 2014

External links

Media related to Porto International Airport at Wikimedia Commons

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

На других языках

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[de] Flughafen Porto

Der Flughafen Porto (portugiesisch: Aeroporto Francisco Sá Carneiro?/i, englisch: Porto Airport) ist ein internationaler Verkehrsflughafen im Norden Portugals nahe der Stadt Porto. Er ist nach dem Flughafen Lissabon der zweitgrößte Verkehrsflughafen des Landes. Benannt wurde er nach dem früheren portugiesischen Ministerpräsidenten Francisco Sá Carneiro, der beim Absturz eines Fluges nach Porto ums Leben kam. Er dient als Drehkreuz von TAP Air Portugal.

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- [en] Porto Airport

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[es] Aeropuerto de Oporto-Francisco Sá Carneiro

El Aeropuerto Francisco Sá Carneiro de Oporto (en portugués: Aeroporto Internacional Dr. Francisco de Sá Carneiro) (IATA: OPO, OACI: LPPR), también conocido como Aeropuerto de Oporto o Aeropuerto de Pedras Rubras, está ubicado a aproximadamente 12 kilómetros al norte del centro de la ciudad de Oporto (Portugal). Es el mayor aeropuerto en extensión y tráfico del noroeste Peninsular y el segundo de mayor tráfico de Portugal tras el Aeropuerto de Lisboa,[1][2]

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[fr] Aéroport de Porto-Francisco Sá-Carneiro

L’aéroport Francisco Sá-Carneiro (code IATA : OPO • code OACI : LPPR) est l'aéroport international desservant la ville de Porto. Il est situé dans une zone industrielle et commerciale importante du Portugal, à 11 km du centre-ville. Il porte le nom de l'homme politique Francisco Sá Carneiro.

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[it] Aeroporto di Porto

L'Aeroporto di Porto[2] (IATA: OPO, ICAO: LPPR) (in portoghese: Aeroporto do Porto), noto con il nome commerciale di Aeroporto Francisco Sá Carneiro, si trova a circa 10 chilometri dal centro della città di Porto, in Portogallo. L'aeroporto è intitolato al Primo Ministro portoghese Francisco Sá Carneiro (1934-1980) perito in un incidente aereo durante il suo mandato presidenziale nel 1980.

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[ru] Порту (аэропорт)

Международный аэропорт Порту имени Франсишку Са Карнейру (порт. Aeroporto Francisco Sá Carneiro) — международный аэропорт, который находится на севере Португалии, в агломерации Большой Порту, на территории муниципалитетов Матозиньюш, Майа и Вила-ду-Конди, в 11 км к северо-западу от центра города Порту. В 2011 году аэропорт обслужил 6 млн пассажиров[1] (второе место в Португалии после лиссабонского аэропорт Портела).

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