OPO: Porto - Francisco Sá Carneiro (Portugal)

Porto's airport competes with Faro to see which is the second main airport in Portugal. It's a renewed airport, very beautiful. It has capacity for 6M passengers per year, but there are plans to expand it to 20M passengers/yearif needed. The airport won the title of the best best airport in Europe, for airports with less than 5M airports and it's regularly in the top five.

Official website:
http://www.ana.pt/portal/page/portal/ANA/AEROPORTO_PORTO/

Ryanair routes:
UK: Stansted
Birmingham, Bristol and Liverpool (seazonal routes)
France: Beauvais, St Ettienne, Marseille, Tours, Lille and Bordeaux (starting in March)
Spain: Madrid, Girona, Tenerife and Las Palmas
Italy: Milan-Bergamo
Belgium: Charleroi
Holland: Eindhoven
Germany: Weeze, Hahn, Karlsruhe-Baden
Portugal: Faro

Main companies operating in the airport:
TAP, FR and Easyjet.

Transport facilities:
metro: 3 per hour, connecting the airport to Porto in less than 30 minutes
bus: Porto' bus company has three lines connecting the airport to the Porto, but it takes more than an hour.
bus: two daily connections with Vigo-Spain
car: a freeway connects Porto and the airport. Cities like Braga and Guimarães can also be reached easily.

Runway:
3,479 km

Pics (from google):

Impressive terminal building :-)
I've never found a jazz duo performing live at the airside before!
There are two disadvantages there.
1 - it's hard to get any competent info. My flight to Madrid was delayed for 9hours. The staff after 90+minutes of waiting in queue told me my card is ok and I should show myself at about 1200 at the gate to get my voucher. There was nobody there, so after I've found some other staff member (very beautiful and well eanglish speaking women) I've been informed I have to go out again, get my voucher in the desk and then go through security again...
2 - it's very cold there!! I know, it was late january, but it was colder than outside!
Many people from Porto told me I've to take a taxi to get to my 0630 flight. Nope, I may take a bus from the city center. I don't remember the line number and the name of a first bus-stop, maybe some residents on that airport might help?

Unfortunatelly I've spent to less time in Porto, so I haven't seen a lot. I'll be back one day - that's for sure :-)

Arrival at OPO, 11 June 2013 :










Arrival hall




Metro going downtown

Departure from Porto (11 June 2013)

Departure hall : stunning !















The gates usually used for Ryanair flights are on the ground floor :