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Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport or simply Porto Airport is an international airport near Porto (Oporto), Portugal. It is located northwest of the Clérigos Tower in the centre of Porto, in the municipalities of Maia, Matosinhos and Vila do Conde and is run by ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal. The airport 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 Portela Airport and before Faro Airport. The airport is a base for easyJet, Ryanair, TAP Portugal and its subsidiary Portugália. ==History== Initially the airport was known as Pedras Rubras Airport, after the local name for the place where the airport came to be: Pedras Rubras ("red rocks"). The lands on which the airport was built were originally agricultural, characterized by rich soils that permitted cultivation of various cereals.〔 It was renamed in 1990 for former Portuguese prime minister, Francisco de Sá Carneiro, who was killed in an airplane crash as he was heading to this airport. Along with the airports in Lisbon, Horta, Faro, Flores, Santa Maria, Ponta Delgada and Beja, the airport's concessions to provide support to civil aviation was conceded to ANA Aeroportos de Portugal on 18 December 1998, under provisions of decree 404/98. With this concession, ANA was also provided to the planning, development and construction of future infrastructures.〔 On 25 February 2008, Airports Council International (ACI) announced that according to its 2007 Airport Service Quality Survey, Porto placed first overall in Europe for service and placed fourth among airports worldwide having fewer than 5 million passengers. Porto Airport reached its six millionth passenger mark on 30 December 2011. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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