Porto Airport (OPO)
OPO is the IATA code of Porto's airport, officially Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport, 11 km north-west of the city centre in the municipality of Maia. Metro line E runs from the station outside the terminal to Trindade in the centre every 15 minutes. It handled 16.9 million passengers in 2025, second in Portugal only to Lisbon.
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TL;DR: OPO is Porto's Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport, ~11km from the city center, served by Metro Line E since 2006. Handled 16.9M passengers in 2025, Portugal's second-busiest airport.
What is the airport code for Porto?
OPO. That is the three-letter IATA code you see on tickets, boarding passes and bag tags. The four-letter ICAO code used by airlines and air traffic control is LPPR. Searches for "Oporto airport" land here too: Oporto is the older English name for the city, and there is no separate airport under that name.
What is Porto airport called?
Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport, after a Portuguese prime minister. Airlines, booking sites and the metro network mostly call it Porto Airport, and the station on the metro map is simply "Aeroporto". If a booking shows "Francisco Sá Carneiro", it is the same place as OPO.
Where is Porto airport?
About 11 km (6.8 miles) north-west of the Clérigos Tower in the centre of Porto. The airport sits across three municipalities, Maia, Matosinhos and Vila do Conde, with the terminal on the Maia side. It is one airport with one main terminal; the metro station is "situated immediately outside the main terminal", reached through "a lower-level concourse, which in turn is directly accessible from the terminal building" (Wikipedia, Aeroporto station).
How far is Porto Airport from the city centre?
Eleven kilometres, which on the metro means one line and no changes. Line E (the violet line) leaves from the station at the terminal; "trains run every 15 minutes as far as Trindade, in the centre of the city, with some continuing to Estádio do Dragão" (Wikipedia, Aeroporto station). Trindade is the interchange where the other lines meet, so most of the city is one change away. Taxis and ride-hailing cars wait outside arrivals and are quicker outside the rush hours; the metro is the fixed-time option.
Are there two airports in Porto?
No. Porto has one commercial airport, OPO. Portugal's other large international airports are Lisbon and Faro; Porto is the second-busiest of the three, with 16,939,000 passengers in 2025, up 6.3% on the year before (Wikipedia, citing the operator's statistics).
Porto airport to the city: metro, bus and taxi
Metro. Line E has served the airport since 27 May 2006. Buy or top up an Andante ticket at the machines in the station concourse before you go through the gates; the airport is in an outer fare zone, so choose the zone that covers your destination when you buy. Every 15 minutes to Trindade.
Bus. Local STCP buses stop at the airport and cover the suburbs the metro does not; for the centre the metro is simpler.
Taxi and ride-hailing. The rank is outside arrivals. Agree nothing in advance with a driver who approaches you inside the terminal; use the rank or the app.
Which airlines fly from Porto?
Low-cost and network carriers with scheduled services across Europe and to international destinations. The quickest way to see who flies your route and on which days is to search it: Laters.com searches every airline flying from OPO in one go and shows the pay-later options at checkout.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Porto Airport called OPO?
Yes. OPO is its IATA code; the official name is Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport.
What is the ICAO code for Porto airport?
LPPR.
Does the metro go to Porto airport?
Yes. Line E stops immediately outside the terminal and runs every 15 minutes to Trindade in the centre.
Is Porto Airport better than Lisbon?
It is smaller: 16.9 million passengers in 2025 against Lisbon's larger total, which usually means shorter walks and shorter queues, and the metro is directly outside the terminal. Which is better depends on where in Portugal you are going.
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