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.
Most flights from Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport are to London and to Sao Paulo but there are many more flights to other destinations as well, most of them by Ryanair. Every day there are flights to 18 destinations from Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport. Here are the most popular destinations:
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
