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Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport or simply Porto Airport (formerly Pedras Rubras Airport) is an international airport near Porto (Oporto), Portugal. It is located 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.
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 Island, 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.
| Source: Pordata Vinci INE |
| + Busiest routes from Porto Airport (2023) | ||||
| 1 | Orly Airport | 1,125,436 | 17.6% | TAP Air Portugal, Transavia, Vueling |
| 2 | Madrid | 1,083,838 | 11.8% | Air Europa, Iberia, Ryanair |
| 3 | Lisbon Airport | 784,125 | 22.4% | TAP Air Portugal |
| 4 | Geneva Airport | 776,564 | 11.9% | EasyJet, Swiss International Air Lines |
| 5 | Barcelona | 650,541 | 6.0% | Ryanair, Vueling |
| 6 | Madeira Airport | 628,527 | 43.9% | EasyJet, TAP Air Portugal |
| 7 | Luxembourg | 497,468 | 44.4% | EasyJet, TAP Air Portugal, Luxair |
| 8 | Zurich Airport | 419,175 | 49.2% | EasyJet, TAP Air Portugal, Swiss Air Lines |
| 9 | London Stansted | 365,087 | 4.7% | Ryanair |
| 10 | Amsterdam Schiphol | 348,597 | 1.3% | KLM, Transavia |
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).
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