Porto Airport, or officially named Francisco Sa Carneiro Airport after the Portugese prime-minister who died in an airplane crash at this airport in 1980, is with close to 10 million passengers the second-busiest airport of Portugal, after Lisbon Airport and it is a base for Ryanair, national airline TAP Portugal and easyJet.
The airport has been completely refurbished in 2004 and has one runway and one terminal.
Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport is not a large airport so there are not many flights departing here. There are only a few destinations that you can reach from Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport, most of these are operated by Lufthansa. Many people take a flight to Frankfurt and transfer to another flight there.
The Porto Airport is located about 15 km northwest of central Porto.
You have several transport options at Porto Airport: bus, metro and taxi.
Just outside the airport you can catch one of the Terravision bus to central Porto (Praca da Liberdade) for 5 euro one-way (travel time 25 minutes).
The metro provides a direct connection to the city center which is cheaper than the bus but you would need to walk more. A rechargeable metro ticket would cost 50 eurocent and the fare to the city center is 1.80 euro. Departures are all day, but not at night (from about 1 am till 5 am).
See for tickets and schedule: metro: metrodoporto.pt buses: stcp.pt .
A taxi into central Porto would cost about 25 euros.
All prices quoted here were found in July 2017
