
There is also a bus that operates all night from Porto city centre to the airport. STCP buses also link the airport and the city. It can also be reached by the A4 motorway through the VRI accessway. These roadways lead to drop-off and pick-up areas and short and long-stay car parks. Sá Carneiro airport is accessible via the A41 and A28 motorways, but also the EN13 highway (using the EN107 accessway). 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). The station has three platforms and the trains leave the arrival platform and reverse into one of the departure platforms. The airport is served by Line E of the Porto Metro. Seasonal: Bremen, Cagliari, Carcassonne, Clermont-Ferrand, Dole, Fez, La Rochelle, Liverpool, Nuremberg, Palma de Mallorca, Verona, Weezeįunchal, Geneva, Lisbon, London–Gatwick, Luxembourg, Newark, Paris–Orly, Ponta Delgada, Rio de Janeiro–Galeão, São Paulo–Guarulhos, ZürichĪmsterdam, Brest, Funchal, Lyon, Nantes, Paris–Orly Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn (ends 30 September 2022), Ibiza, Palma de Mallorca, Prague (ends 29 October 2022), Porto SantoĪgadir, Alicante, Barcelona, Bari, Beauvais, Bergamo, Bergerac, Berlin, Billund, Birmingham, Bologna, Bordeaux, Brive, Brussels, Budapest, Châlons-Vatry, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Dortmund, Dublin, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Faro, Funchal, Gran Canaria, Hahn, Hamburg, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Krakow, Lille, London–Stansted, Luxembourg, Maastricht-Aachen (resumes 31 October 2022), Madrid, Málaga, Malta, Manchester, Marrakech, Marseille, Memmingen, Milan–Malpensa, Ponta Delgada, Rome–Ciampino, Seville, Strasbourg (resumes 1 November 2022), Tenerife–South, Terceira, Treviso, Toulouse, Tours, Valencia, Vienna, Warsaw–Modlin The following airlines operate regular scheduled direct passenger flights at Porto Airport:īasel/Mulhouse, Berlin, Bordeaux, Bristol, Funchal, Geneva, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Luxembourg, Lyon, Madrid, Manchester, Milan–Malpensa, Nantes, Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Rennes, Toulouse, Zürich Porto Airport reached ten million passenger per year for the first time on 6 December 2017.Īirlines and destinations Passenger Ī new terminal building, designed by Portuguese firm ICQ, was built between 20, and became operational in the last quarter of 2006. With this concession, ANA became responsible for the planning, development and construction of future infrastructure. Īlong 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. 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. The land on which the airport was built was originally agricultural, characterised by rich soils that permitted the cultivation of various cereals.

It is still known by this name in the region. 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"). The southern portion of the airport intersects the hydrographic watershed of the Leça River, while the north is crossed by effluents of Onda River. It includes an area of between 72 metres (236 ft) in the extreme south and 43 metres (141 ft) in the north. 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). 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).
