Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport

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Porto Airport (Portuguese: Aeroporto Francisco Sá Carneiro / i, English: Airport Oporto ) is an international airport in the north of Portugal, near the city of Porto. He is after the Lisbon Airport is the second largest commercial airport in the country. He was named after the former Portuguese prime minister Francisco Sá Carneiro.

The airport is located about 11 kilometers northwest from the city center in Pedras Rubras, which belongs to the city of Maia. He is tied up since 2006 on the line E of Metro do Porto directly to Porto.

He has a single passenger terminal, opened in 1990. The check-in area with a high street as a driveway located on the 3rd floor. After passing through the central security checkpoint with four lines, passengers are guided in the departure area on the 2nd floor. This area covers the entire width of the terminal and contains the gates, shops and restaurants waiting areas. The passenger boarding bridges each a ramp both to the second floor to the departures area, as well as to the first floor to the arrivals area. On the first floor the arriving passengers are guided through passages in the central arrivals area and then go to the ground floor. There you will find the baggage carousels. Behind the customs control is the public part of the ground floor with various service providers, taxi stand and bus links. The metro station is the arrivals area directly opposite, and is connected to it via a glazed canopy.

From German-speaking countries flying EasyJet from Geneva and Basel, Lufthansa from Frankfurt, Ryanair from Bremen, Dortmund, Hahn, Karlsruhe / Baden -Baden, Lübeck, Strasbourg, Weeze and Nuremberg, SATA Internacional from Munich, Swiss from Zurich, and TAP Portugal from Geneva, Zurich and Luxembourg.