Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport
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| Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport Aeroporto Francisco Sá Carneiro |
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|---|---|---|---|
| IATA: OPO - ICAO: LPPR | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | ANA Aeroportos de Portugal SA | ||
| Serves | Porto | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 228 ft (69 m) | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 17/35 | 11,417 | 3,479 | Asphalt |
Francisco Sá Carneiro (IATA: OPO, ICAO: LPPR) is the international airport of Porto, Portugal. It is located approximately six miles north of the city center of Porto and run by the Aeroportos de Portugal. Sá Carneiro is currently the third-busiest airport in the country based on airplane operations and the third-busiest in passengers, based on Aeroportos de Portugal traffic statistics. It is located 11 km from Porto.
It is named after a Portuguese Politician, Francisco Sá Carneiro, who was killed in an airplane crash as he was heading to this airport. Although it is not often known by this name, locally is known as "Aeroporto de Pedras Rubras" and nationwide as "Aeroporto do Porto".
[edit] Airlines and destinations
Carneiro Airport is served by the following airlines:
- Air Berlin (Palma de Mallorca)
- Air France
- Air France operated by Régional (Bordeaux)
- Air Transat (Montreal, Toronto-Pearson)
- Clickair (Barcelona)
- easyJet (Geneva, starts 29 June 2007)
- HLX.com (Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart)
- Iberia (Madrid)
- Iberia Airlines operated by Air Nostrum (Madrid)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
- Luxair (Luxembourg)
- Portugália (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bologna, Clermont-Ferrand, Lisbon, Lyon, Madrid, Milan-Malpensa, Nice, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Zürich)
- Ryanair (Paris-Beauvais, Dublin, Girona [starts March 2, 2007], Frankfurt-Hahn, Liverpool, London Stansted, Marseille)
- SATA International (Ponta Delgada (Azores), Toronto-Pearson)
- Skyservice (Toronto-Pearson)
- SN Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
- Swiss International Air Lines (Zurich)
- TAP Portugal (Amsterdam, Caracas, Funchal, Geneva, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow, Luxembourg, Milan-Malpensa, Newark, Paris-Orly, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Rome-Fiumicino, São Paulo-Guarulhos)
[edit] Metro and buses
The airport is served by Line E of Porto Metro, linking it to downtown Porto, pendolino trains and Estádio do Dragão, and by transfer to 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), and Senhora da Hora station to Matosinhos (line A). Taxis and STCP buses also link the airport and the city. There is also a bus service to/from Vigo (Galiza/Spain) twice a day (just once a day on Saturdays and Sundays).
[edit] External links
- Aeroportos de Portugal
- World Aero Data airport information for LPPR
