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, 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
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerVinci Group
OperatorANA Aeroportos de Portugal
ServesPorto, Portugal
Location11 km (6.8 mi) NW of Porto
Opened1945
Hub forTAP Air Portugal
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL69 m / 226 ft
Coordinates41°14′08″N 008°40′41″W
Websitewww.aeroportoporto.pt
Map
LPPR
Location in Portugal
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
17/35 3,480 11,417 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers13.105.000
Passengers change 18-199.8%
Aircraft Movements96,537
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.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

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

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Seasonal: Athens (resumes 31 March 2021)[4]
Air Canada Rouge Seasonal: Toronto–Pearson (resumes 19 June 2021)[5]
Air Europa Madrid
Air France Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Air Transat Toronto–Pearson (resumes 3 May 2021)[6]
Seasonal: Montréal–Trudeau (resumes 2 May 2021)[7]
Azores Airlines Ponta Delgada, Terceira
British Airways London–Heathrow (resumes 28 March 2021) [8]
Brussels Airlines Brussels
easyJet Basel/Mulhouse, Bordeaux, Bristol (resumes 30 March 2021), Funchal, Geneva, London–Gatwick (resumes 26 March 2021), London–Luton (resumes 28 March 2021), Luxembourg, Lyon, Nantes, Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse, Zürich
Seasonal: Berlin (begins 2 May 2021),[9] Ibiza, Málaga, Manchester, Montpellier[10]
Eurowings Seasonal: Düsseldorf
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki (resumes 1 June 2021)[11]
Iberia Madrid (resumes 28 March 2021) [12]
Iberia Regional Madrid[13]
KLM Amsterdam
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair Luxembourg
Ryanair Alicante (resumes 28 March 2021), Barcelona, Beauvais, Bergamo (resumes 28 March 2021), Berlin (resumes 28 March 2021), Birmingham (resumes 28 March 2021), Bologna (resumes 28 March 2021), Bordeaux, Brest (resumes 30 March 2021), Brive (resumes 29 March 2021), Brussels, Budapest (resumes 29 March 2021), Cagliari (resumes 3 May 2021), Châlons-Vatry, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn (resumes 28 March 2021), Dole, Dortmund, Dublin (resumes 28 March 2021), Eindhoven, Faro, Krakow (resumes 29 March 2021), Liverpool (resumes 29 March 2021), London–Stansted (resumes 3 March 2021), Luxembourg, Madrid (resumes 28 March 2021), Malta (resumes 29 March 2021), Manchester (resumes 28 March 2021), Marrakech (resumes 29 March 2021), Marseille, Memmingen (resumes 30 March 2021), Milan–Malpensa (resumes 28 March 2021), Ponta Delgada, Rome–Ciampino (resumes 29 March 2021), Seville (resumes 28 March 2021), Terceira, Tours (resumes 30 March 2021), Valencia (resumes 28 March 2021), Vienna (resumes 28 March 2021)[14]
Seasonal: Edinburgh, Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife–South, Warsaw–Modlin, Weeze
Swiss International Air Lines Geneva, Zürich
TAP Air Portugal[15] Funchal, Geneva, Lisbon, London–Heathrow, Newark, Paris–Orly, Rio de Janeiro–Galeão, São Paulo–Guarulhos, Zürich
Transavia Amsterdam, Lyon, Nantes (resumes 18 February 2021), Paris–Orly
Turkish Airlines Istanbul (resumes 28 March 2021)[16]
United Airlines Seasonal: Newark (resumes 1 April 2021)
Volotea Bilbao (resumes 25 March 2021)[17]
Vueling Barcelona, Bilbao (resumes 1 March 2021),[18] Paris–Charles de Gaulle (resumes 7 March 2021),[19] Paris–Orly (resumes 10 March 2021)
Seasonal: Tenerife–North (resumes 30 March 2021)[20]
Wizz Air Dortmund (resumes 28 March 2021), London–Luton (resumes 30 March 2021), Milan–Malpensa (resumes 3 March 2021), Vienna (resumes 1 March 2021)
Seasonal: Budapest, Warsaw–Chopin

Cargo
AirlinesDestinations
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
9 London-Stansted 348,735 8.3% Ryanair
10 Brussels 348,262 25.2% Brussels Airlines, Ryanair

Access

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. Tickets can be bought in advance on the shuttle's website.

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]

See also

References

Citations
  1. ANA (January 2007), p. 1
  2. "The history of Porto Airport - Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport". 1 February 2017.
  3. "Francisco SA Carneiro (Oporto) Airport Expansion, Porto".
  4. https://en.aegeanair.com
  5. https://www.aircanada.com/us/en/aco/home.html
  6. https://www.airtransat.com
  7. https://www.airtransat.com
  8. https://www.britishairways.com
  9. https://www.easyjet.com
  10. Liu, Jim (21 August 2019). "easyJet further expands new routes in W19". Routesonline.
  11. Finnair to add three new leisure routes for next summer: Porto, Bologna and Bordeaux news.cision.com 31 October 2018. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  12. https://www.iberia.com
  13. https://www.iberia.com
  14. Liu, Jim. "Ryanair / Laudamotion S20 network consolidation as of 18JUN20". Routesonline. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  15. flytap.com - Flight information 10 October 2020
  16. https://www.turkishairlines.com
  17. https://www.turkishairlines.com
  18. https://www.vueling.com/pt
  19. https://www.vueling.com/pt
  20. https://www.vueling.com/pt
  21. airlineroutemaps.com retrieved 23 August 2020
  22. "Eurostat Data Explorer". Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  23. "€10.5bn for rail in Portuguese 10-year investment plan". International Railway Journal. 20 November 2020. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  24. "Porto Airport voted best in Europe in category of 5 to 15 million passengers" ANA Aeroportos de Portugal Retrieved 2017-06-18
  25. "Past Winners - Airports Council International" Airports Council International. Retrieved 2014-03-04

Bibliography

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