OPO Porto

How deep the OPO board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from OPO. This reads the same 138 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 92of the 138 destinations are flown by one airline
• 81destinations run less than once a day
• 10destinations have four or more departures a day
• 48.6%of the destinations name Ryanair, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at OPO

57 airlines appear on the OPO board and they do not hold it evenly. Ryanair is on 67 of the 138 destinations, 48.6 per cent of them, and on 48 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 97.1 of the 208.4 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is easyJet on 27 destinations. 33 of the 57 airlines at OPO appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 67 of the 138 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an OPO sector is usually another Ryanair aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. That is why the alternate airports listed above matter more at OPO than the destination count does.

How much of the OPO board is daily

Of the 138 destinations, 57 are flown at least once a day and 81 are not, 8 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the OPO board is flown 5 times a week.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: OPO to Rennes/Saint-Jacques (RNS) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 52.1 of the 208.4 departures a day, 25 per cent of the whole board. With 58.7 per cent of the 138 destinations running less than daily, this is a board that rewards booking the outbound before the collection is confirmed rather than after.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Alava VIT	Spain	EAT Leipzig	1	524	plan this
Catania CTA	Italy	Air Horizont	1	2,078	plan this
Enfidha NBE	Tunisia	Air Horizont	1	1,752	plan this
Hanover HAJ	Germany	TUIfly	1	1,862	the pair page
Kerkyra Island CFU	Greece	Air Horizont	1	2,416	plan this
Lanzarote Island ACE	Spain	Iberia	1	1,439	plan this
Paris LBG	France	VallJet	1	1,222	plan this
Rennes/Saint-Jacques RNS	France	Enter Air	1	936	plan this
Agadir AGA	Morocco	Ryanair	2	1,216	plan this
Almería LEI	Spain	Iberia	2	732	plan this

The ten destinations out of OPO where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 61 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from OPO

The desk holds the return direction for 98 of the 138 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On seven of them the return into OPO runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Leipzig (LEJ) at 0.71 out a day against 0.14 back, Marrakech (RAK) at 0.71 out a day against 0.43 back and Istanbul (IST) at 2.7 out a day against 1.7 back.

It runs the other way as well: Warsaw (WAW) files 1.6 a day back into OPO against 1.1 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at OPO

OPO keeps Europe/Lisbon time, three hours behind Dubai in summer and four hours behind in winter, because the clock here moves and the Gulf clock does not.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 06:00 at OPO, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for six hours. A customs question raised in the last three hours of the Dubai afternoon reaches nobody at OPO until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at OPO

16 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into Paris (ORY) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from OPO that lands inside it leaves around 20:28, on a modelled block of 2h 02m. Into Geneva (GVA) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from OPO that lands inside it leaves around 20:50, on a modelled block of 2h 10m. Into London (LGW) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from OPO that lands inside it leaves around 21:22, on a modelled block of 2h 08m. Those three departure times out of OPO are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where OPO turns up on the rest of this site

OPO carries two other pages on this site as well: the Portugal country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the OPO transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 24 airport pair pages that start or end at OPO, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Porto to Paris (ORY), Porto to Lisbon (LIS) and Porto to Geneva (GVA).

13 courier postings name OPO as the airport a courier here flies from: Vigo, Porto and Braga.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with OPO already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 138 destinations above.