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Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport

Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport
OPOLPPR

Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport

Porto, Portugal · Europe
Europe Europe/Lisbon IVCA 55.8
137direct destinations
49airlines
1runway
3,480 mLongest runway
1945opened

Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport (IATA: OPO, ICAO: LPPR) or simply Porto Airport (formerly Pedras Rubras Airport) is an international airport near Porto (Oporto), Portugal. It is located 11 km (6.8 mi) northwest of the Clérigos Tower (in the centre of Porto). Its location is split between the municipalities of Maia, Matosinhos and Vila do Conde. The airport is run by ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal and is currently the second-busiest in the country, based on aircraft operations; and the second-busiest in passengers, based on Aeroportos de Portugal traffic statistics, after Lisbon Airport and before Faro Airport. The airport is a base for easyJet, Ryanair, TAP Air Portugal and its subsidiary TAP Express.

Location

Mapa

41.248°N, 8.681°O · 69 m s. n. m. (228 ft)

General data

CountryPortugal
CityPorto
IATA codeOPO
ICAO codeLPPR
Coordinates41.248°N, 8.681°O
Elevation69 m s. n. m. (228 ft)
Time zoneEurope/Lisbon
Runways1
Longest runway3,480 m
OperatorANA-Aeroportos de Portugal
Opened1945
Direct destinations137
Official website Its quality in the IVCA Ranking

Runways · 1

17/35
Length3,480 m11,417 ft
Width45 m148 ft
SurfaceAsphalt
Lighted✓

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

Radio frequencies · 4

Tower

118.005Porto Tower

Clearance delivery

118.930Porto Delivery

ATIS (automatic information)

124.305

Approach

121.105Porto Approach
Look for a live feed on LiveATC External site; not every airport has a feed.

Reference frequencies for enthusiasts, from OurAirports (community database, public domain), checked on Oct 16, 2026. They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation. In Europe the published frequency may be an 8.33 kHz channel (e.g., 118.505 for 118.500). In MHz.

History

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"). It is still known by this name in the region. The land on which the airport was built was originally agricultural, characterised by rich soils that permitted the cultivation of various cereals.

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.

Along 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. With this concession, ANA became responsible for the planning, development and construction of future infrastructure.

A new terminal building, designed by Portuguese firm ICQ, was built between 2003 and 2006, and became operational in the last quarter of 2006.

Porto Airport reached ten million passengers in a year for the first time on 6 December 2017.

Airlines operating here · 49

Other airlines with direct routes

Ryanair easyJet TAP Air Portugal Air Nostrum Transavia Volotea Eurowings Wizz Air Norwegian Air Shuttle Smartwings Jet2.com Transavia France Vueling Air Transat Azul Brazilian Airlines Enter Air Ethiopian Airlines Lufthansa Swiss International Air Lines Aegean Airlines Air Algérie Air Canada Air Europa Air France Air Horizontcharter Air Serbia AirBaltic Austrian Airlines Azores Airlines British Airways Brussels Airlines Cabo Verde Airlines Chair Airlines Delta Air Lines EasyJet Switzerland Evelop Airlinescharter Iberia KLM LOT Polish Airlines Luxair Nouvelaircharter Privilege Stylecharter Royal Air Maroc Scandinavian Airlines Sun d'Or International Airlines SunExpress TAAG Angola Airlines Turkish Airlines United Airlines

Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).

Photo: Pedroshin at English Wikipedia · Public domain · view original

Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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This page was last updated on October 15, 2026

APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO). Retrieved October 17, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/OPO

MLA

“Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/OPO. Accessed 17 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

Vuelopedia. “Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 15, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/OPO.

Harvard

Vuelopedia (2026) Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/OPO (Accessed: 17 October 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_opo,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-15},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/OPO},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/OPO}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-17},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-17}
}

Wikipedia

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