Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport
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| Dr. Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport Aeroporto Internacional Dr. Francisco de Sá Carneiro |
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| IATA: OPO - ICAO: LPPR | |||
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| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | ANA Aeroportos de Portugal SA | ||
| Serves | Porto | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 228 ft (69 m) | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
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| 17/35 | 11,417 | 3,479 | Asphalt |
Aeroporto Internacional Dr. Francisco de 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 northwest of the city centre and run by 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, being Lisbon Airport and Faro Airport the larger and leading airports of the country.
It is named after a Portuguese Politician, Francisco de Sá Carneiro, who was killed in an airplane crash as he was heading to this airport.
The airport received the award for 1st place, as the best airport in Europe and 4th place for best airport in the world with fewer than 15 million passengers. The Airport Service Quality Awards 2007 was announced by Airports Council International (ACI), on the 25th of February 2008.
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[edit] Airlines and destinations
Sá Carneiro Airport is served by the following airlines:
- Aigle Azur (Paris-Orly)
- airberlin (Palma de Mallorca)
- Air France
- operated by Régional (Bordeaux)
- Air Transat (Montreal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson)
- British Airways (London-Gatwick) [begins October 26]
- Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
- Clickair (Barcelona)
- easyJet (Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva, Lyon, Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Iberia (Madrid)
- operated by Air Nostrum (Madrid)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
- Luxair (Luxembourg)
- Ryanair (Barcelona-Girona, Birmingham [begins June 20], Bristol, Brussels-Charleroi, Dublin [seasonal], Frankfurt-Hahn, Liverpool, London-Stansted, Madrid, Marseille, Milan-Bergamo, Paris-Beauvais, Pisa, Valencia)
- SATA International (Boston [seasonal], Ponta Delgada, Toronto-Pearson)
- Swiss International Air Lines (Zürich) [seasonal]
- TAP Portugal (Caracas, Funchal, Hamburg, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow, New York-Newark, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Salvador, São Paulo-Guarulhos)
- operated by Portugália (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, Geneva, Lisbon, Lyon, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan-Malpensa, Nice, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, Zürich)
- TACV (Sal) [seasonal]
- TUIfly (Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart, Hamburg [seasonal])
- transavia.com (Paris-Orly)
- Volareweb (Milan-Malpensa)
[edit] Charter
- Skyservice (Toronto-Pearson)
[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 on weekdays, and once a day during the weekend.
[edit] External links
- Aeroportos de Portugal
- Airport information for LPPR at World Aero Data
