Porto Airport › Arrivals
Every flight to Porto Airport arrives at the same terminal, and the arrivals hall is on the ground floor.
The arrivals board for Porto Airport shows flight number, origin, scheduled and expected time and the current status in real time, which helps anyone timing a pick-up, because flights from the United Kingdom and Ireland also pass through passport control before the baggage hall.
Flight data is supplied by a third party and may differ from the official displays in the terminal.
The board for Porto Airport uses a handful of status messages: scheduled means no change, estimated gives the updated time, landed appears when the aircraft touches down, and delayed or cancelled speak for themselves. After landing, passengers need a while longer to reach the arrivals hall, because bags have to be delivered and travellers from outside the Schengen area pass through border control. British passport holders are registered in the European Entry/Exit System, which records fingerprints and a photo, and the UK government advises travellers to be prepared to wait longer than usual at the border.
One flight can appear under two numbers when airlines sell seats on each other's services, which is common on TAP Air Portugal routes. If you cannot find a flight number on the board for Porto Airport, search by the origin or destination and the scheduled time instead. Low-cost airlines schedule many late-evening arrivals at Porto Airport, and these are the flights most often pushed back, so check the board again before leaving for the terminal.
Anyone meeting a passenger at Porto Airport should watch the status rather than the scheduled time and add the wait for passport control and luggage; arrivals come out on the ground floor.
Stopping at the Arrivals kerbside of Porto Airport is free for ten minutes only; for a longer wait use one of the operator's car parks.
The metro from Porto Airport runs until 00:42 and reaches Trindade in 27 to 32 minutes; a single ticket costs €2.30 plus €0.60 for the rechargeable card.
After the last metro, the night bus 3M leaves Porto Airport for Avenida dos Aliados once an hour between 00:30 and 05:30, and the taxi rank works around the clock.
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