The sector is held by Eurowings.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
STR Stuttgart to OPO Porto
Stuttgart Airport, Germany, to Francisco Sa Carneiro, Portugal. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 1,628 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 35m
- Door to door
- 9h 20m
What STR to OPO looks like
The STR to OPO sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Stuttgart STR to Porto OPO is a medium haul sector of 1,628 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,628 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 35m.
Stuttgart STR is a large airport in the network held here, 127 scheduled destinations and 137.3 departures a day. Porto OPO has 138 destinations and 208.4 departures a day.
Porto is one hour behind of Stuttgart all year.
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 STR to OPO from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| STR to OPO | 1 | 7 | Eurowings |
| OPO to STR | 1.14 | 8 | Eurowings |
One carrier holds the sector, Eurowings, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 15 departures a week on STR to OPO, 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 35m block time on STR to OPO. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to STR | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At STR before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| STR to OPO in the air, estimated | 155 min | 7h 05m |
| Formalities at OPO | 90 min | 8h 35m |
| Delivery run in Porto | 45 min | 9h 20m |
| Door to door | 560 min | 9h 20m |
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 STR to OPO is 9h 20m.
A courier who leaves Stuttgart at 09:00 local is on the ground in Porto at about 10:35 local and at the door by 12:50 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Porto, the last useful departure from Stuttgart is around 14:10 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. 52 of them join STR to OPO.
| Connecting at | STR to hub, flights a day | Hub to OPO, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilbao BIO | 0.71 | 0.86 | 1,637 | 4h 12m |
| Zurich ZRH | 2.86 | 5.29 | 1,675 | 4h 40m |
| Cologne CGN | 0.86 | 2.14 | 1,901 | 4h 44m |
| Ibiza IBZ | 1.29 | 1 | 2,154 | 4h 45m |
| Paris CDG | 0.71 | 3.43 | 1,720 | 4h 47m |
| Nice NCE | 0.71 | 1 | 1,909 | 4h 48m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at STR in the afternoon actually flies on.
52 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Bilbao BIO, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through BIO the routing covers 1,637 km against the 1,628 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 12m 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 37m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Zurich ZRH at 4h 40m and Cologne CGN at 4h 44m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Stuttgart, Zurich ZRH is 145 km away by great circle and carries 223 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Restricted hours at either end
Widely documented operating restrictions, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, so confirm with the carrier before relying on any of them.
Stuttgart STR is shut to scheduled movements between 23:30 and 06:00 local, so a collection in Stuttgart that runs late does not simply catch a later flight, it waits for the morning and loses a working day in Porto.
Stuttgart STR, night restrictions: No scheduled movements between 23:30 and 06:00 local.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through STR or OPO. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Mercedes-Benz, Sindelfingen and UntertuerkheimS-Class assembly, powertrain and research. Stuttgart is the densest automotive engineering cluster in Europe. Logistics through Stuttgart STR.
- Porsche, ZuffenhausenSports car and engine assembly. Low volume, high value, and intolerant of a missing component. Logistics through Stuttgart STR.
- Audi, Ingolstadt and NeckarsulmAssembly, aluminium body construction and engines. Two plants, two airports, one takt. Logistics through Stuttgart STR.
- Zeiss SMT, OberkochenOptics for lithography systems. The optics that make lithography possible, made in one place. Logistics through Stuttgart STR.
Plan Stuttgart to Porto 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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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 STR to OPO 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 STR airport entry
- The OPO airport entry
- Hand carry into Germany
- Hand carry into Portugal
- The written lane, Chennai to Stuttgart
- The written lane, Detroit to Stuttgart
- The written lane, Dubai to Stuttgart
- The route calculator
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