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Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)

Francisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO, LPPR) serves Porto, Portugal. Flights leaving OPO left an average of 16.4 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 51st least delayed of 88 busy European airports. 17.1 million passengers used it in the twelve months to February 2026, most often flying to or from Paris.

Delays at OPO

Average departure delay per flight: 16.4 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in August (23.5 min) and lightest in March (7.8 min).

Average departure delay per flight from OPO, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
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MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 202523.5 min5,597
September 202522.1 min5,339
October 202518.7 min5,126
November 202512.4 min4,010
December 202513.9 min4,229
January 202613.5 min3,693
February 202614.3 min3,670
March 20267.8 min4,507
April 202610.9 min5,033
May 202613.5 min5,495
June 202620.8 min5,447
July 202619.7 min5,882

Air traffic flow restrictions held 3.2% of arrivals at OPO for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of weather (86% of those delay minutes).

Departure delay counts every cause, from the airline to air traffic control, and is measured against the scheduled time. Source: EUROCONTROL Aviation Intelligence Portal, summarised by TripStow. EUROCONTROL does not endorse TripStow.

Passengers at OPO

17,075,174 passengers used OPO in the twelve months to February 2026, on 107,213 commercial flights.

Passengers by month at OPO, arrivals and departures together.
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MonthPassengersFlights
March 20251,248,0467,945
April 20251,493,6019,229
May 20251,563,1079,670
June 20251,621,8209,963
July 20251,671,66810,509
August 20251,763,31710,721
September 20251,631,53910,083
October 20251,565,4899,699
November 20251,169,0357,528
December 20251,234,0178,018
January 20261,039,6236,912
February 20261,073,9126,936

Eurostat publishes airport figures a few months behind. Source: Eurostat (CC BY 4.0), summarised by TripStow.

Busiest routes from OPO

  1. Paris-Orly (ORY)1,127,711 passengers
  2. Madrid (MAD)1,042,503 passengers
  3. Geneva Cointrin (GVA)820,413 passengers
  4. Lisbon (LIS)755,476 passengers
  5. Barcelona (BCN)703,710 passengers
  6. Funchal (FNC)608,592 passengers
  7. Luxemburg (LUX)492,122 passengers
  8. Zurich (ZRH)461,908 passengers
  9. London Gatwick (LGW)424,708 passengers
  10. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)419,799 passengers

Passengers in 2024, both directions together. Source: Eurostat (CC BY 4.0), summarised by TripStow.

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Porto (OPO)?
Flights leaving OPO left an average of 16.4 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 51st least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at OPO?
August 2025, when flights left an average of 23.5 minutes late; the lightest month was March 2026 (7.8 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at OPO?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At OPO in the last year the biggest cause was weather (86% of those minutes), then airport capacity (9%).

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