Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport

Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport is the second-busiest airport in Portugal after Lisbon (LIS) and one of the fastest-growing major airports in Western Europe, serving 61 airlines on 224 routes to 135 nonstop destinations. Located 11 km (7 mi) northwest of central Porto at an elevation of 228 ft (69 m), OPO is named for former Portuguese prime minister Francisco Sá Carneiro, who died in a 1980 aircraft crash shortly after departing Lisbon for an electoral rally in Porto. OPO serves as a major operating base for TAP Air Portugal, the country's flag carrier, and as the largest Ryanair base on the Iberian Peninsula outside Madrid — the low-cost carrier operates dozens of based aircraft and routes from OPO, making the airport one of the most Ryanair-weighted major hubs in the Star Alliance ecosystem. easyJet, Transavia, Wizz Air, and Vueling round out a heavy low-cost carrier density, while TAP's long-haul network provides direct service to Brazil (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Recife, Salvador, Fortaleza, Belém) and North America (New York JFK, Newark, Boston, Toronto) — serving Porto's deep diaspora and business links to the Lusophone Atlantic. OPO operates a single 11,417 ft (3,480 m) asphalt runway (17/35) — long enough for any commercial aircraft type in service — and a single integrated passenger terminal that has been expanded repeatedly to accommodate traffic growth from roughly 3 million passengers in the early 2000s to over 15 million by the mid-2020s. The airport is managed by ANA Aeroportos de Portugal (a subsidiary of French concessionaire Vinci Airports) and has been repeatedly recognized by Airports Council International (ACI) as among the best European airports in the 10–25 million passenger category. A new satellite terminal and expanded apron have been announced to handle further growth.