The sector is held by Ryanair.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
OPO Porto to STN London
Francisco Sa Carneiro, Portugal, to Stansted Airport, the United Kingdom. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3.9 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,363 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 14m
- Door to door
- 8h 59m
What OPO to STN looks like
The OPO to STN sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Porto OPO to London STN is a medium haul sector of 1,363 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3.9 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,363 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 14m.
Porto OPO is a large airport in the network held here, 138 scheduled destinations and 208.4 departures a day. London STN has 218 destinations and 349.1 departures a day.
Porto and London keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
The pair sits inside Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 14 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on OPO to STN from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| OPO to STN | 3.86 | 27 | Ryanair |
| STN to OPO | 3.71 | 26 | Ryanair |
One carrier holds the sector, Ryanair, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At 3.9 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 53 departures a week on OPO to STN, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 2h 14m block time on OPO to STN. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to OPO | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At OPO before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| OPO to STN in the air, estimated | 134 min | 6h 44m |
| Formalities at STN | 90 min | 8h 14m |
| Delivery run in London | 45 min | 8h 59m |
| Door to door | 539 min | 8h 59m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for OPO to STN is 8h 59m.
A courier who leaves Porto at 09:00 local is on the ground in London at about 11:14 local and at the door by 13:29 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in London, the last useful departure from Porto is around 13:31 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 67 of them join OPO to STN.
| Connecting at | OPO to hub, flights a day | Hub to STN, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nantes NTE | 2.57 | 1.43 | 1,408 | 3h 54m |
| Eindhoven EIN | 1.14 | 3.29 | 1,918 | 4h 32m |
| Shannon SNN | 0.57 | 2.86 | 1,903 | 4h 34m |
| Brussels BRU | 3.29 | 0.57 | 1,787 | 4h 36m |
| Lisbon LIS | 11.43 | 4 | 1,905 | 4h 44m |
| Madrid MAD | 12.14 | 4.29 | 1,738 | 4h 49m |
With 3.9 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
67 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Nantes NTE, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through NTE the routing covers 1,408 km against the 1,363 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 54m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 40m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Eindhoven EIN at 4h 32m and Shannon SNN at 4h 34m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves London, London LTN is 41 km away by great circle and carries 169 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Porto to London yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Restrictions
Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for OPO to STN in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The OPO airport entry
- The STN airport entry
- Hand carry into Portugal
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- The route calculator
More pairs through OPO and STN: Lisbon to Porto, Porto to Geneva, Sao Paulo to Porto, Paris to Porto, Porto to Hamburg, Stuttgart to Porto, Toulouse to Porto, Eindhoven to Porto.