Porto Airport will have more flights this summer
Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport, known as Porto Airport, is having a record year. It served 12.6 million people in 2022, up from 5.8 million in 2021 (marked by Covid 19). A rise of 116.3% from the previous year, but below the 13.1 million in 2019, before the pandemic. The value for 2022 also corresponds to 96.1% of the passengers transported in 2019.
There are also new routes, expanded capacity, and additional flight connections thanks to the debut of airlines operating from Porto.
The investment of numerous foreign airlines in the airport of the North region of Portugal is crucial to making all of this possible. There was an all-time high in the number of airlines servicing Porto Airport in just the first quarter of 2023.
This summer, the airport will add 14 new routes and connections to 3 new countries, namely Iceland, Latvia, and Israel, as well as six new airlines: airBaltic, Norwegian, Play, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, Sun D’Or, and Austrian Airlines. This increases the number of airlines serving this airport to 31.
There will be a reinforcement of connectivity with Stockholm, Shannon, Glasgow, Riga, Reykjavik, Tel Aviv, Vienna, Copenhagen, Berlin, Bristol, Paris (Orly) and Nantes.
In addition, Porto Airport will expand its travel options, which now include long-distance destinations. ANA Aeroportos de Portugal/Vinci Airports adds, in a statement, that “Porto is increasingly becoming an essential gateway for regional and national tourism”.
“ANA continues to work on its commitment to the North region, by attracting more routes and connectivity, essential for the development and sustainability of regional and national tourism and economic activity”, the statement continues.
ANA affirms that the “strong recovery of traffic at Porto airport” was made possible by the investments in infrastructure.
According to an ANA statement, “Porto Airport continues to successfully increase connections to the main tourist destinations, with France, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Germany, the main passenger markets for airports outside Portugal”.
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