Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Dr. Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport
nativename = Aeroporto Internacional Dr. Francisco de Sá Carneiro
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IATA = OPO
ICAO = LPPR
type = Public
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operator = ANA Aeroportos de Portugal SA
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location = Porto
elevation-f = 228
elevation-m = 69
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r1-number = 17/35
r1-length-f = 11,417
r1-length-m = 3,479
r1-surface = Asphalt
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Aeroporto Internacional Dr. Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport codes|OPO|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 ANA 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.Most of the airport is located in Moreira, Maia municipality.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.

On February 25 2008, Airports Council International (ACI) announced that according to its 2007 Airport Service Quality Survey, Porto placed first overall in Europe for service and placed fourth among airports worldwide having fewer than 5 million passengers. [cite web|url=http://www.aci.aero/cda/aci_common/display/main/aci_content07_c.jsp?zn=aci&cp=1-7-46^21375_666_2__|title=Airport Service Quality Awards 2007|date=February 25 2008|publisher=Airports Council International (ACI)|accessdate=2008-07-20]

Airlines and destinations

Sá Carneiro Airport is served by the following airlines:
*Aigle Azur (Paris-Orly)
*airberlin (Palma de Mallorca)
*Air Europa (Palma de Mallorca)
*Air France
**operated by Régional (Bordeaux)
*Air Transat (Montreal, Toronto-Pearson)
*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, Bristol, Brussels-Charleroi, Dublin [seasonal] , 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)
*TAP Portugal (Caracas, Funchal, Hamburg, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow, Newark, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Salvador da Bahia, 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)
*TUIfly (Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart, Hamburg)
*transavia.com (Paris-Orly)
*Volareweb (Milan-Malpensa)

Charter

*Skyservice (Toronto-Pearson)

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 (Galicia/Spain) twice a day on weekdays, and once a day during the weekend.

External links

* [http://www.ana.pt/portal/page/portal/ANA/AEROPORTO_PORTO/ Aeroportos de Portugal]
*WAD|LPPR

References