Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport

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Dr. Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport Aeroporto Internacional Dr. 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		41°14′53″N, 08°40′53″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
17/35	11,417	3,479	Asphalt

Aeorporto Internacional Dr. Francisco Sá Carneiro (IATA: OPO, ICAO: LPPR) also known as Aeroporto do Porto or Aeroporto de Pedras Rubras 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.

[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)
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, 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)
TACV (Sal [seasonal])
TUIfly (Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart)

[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).