Originally Posted by
danielfigfoz
That's true, I don't like Portela (Lisbon) Airport at all, Francisco Sá Caneiro(Porto) is much better, especially after the modernizaiton for Euro 2004. Lisbon may offer more shops, services and food, but Porto has a couple of nice café-restaurants airside and is alot calmer, the gates go directly from the Airsite main hall, it's one giant room, even Passport control is in it, so if you have to go though passport control, you can still go to all other gates and look at the planes first!
True - but if you marry the high investment put into Porto with the modest passenger traffic, you get a level of comfort not so many provincial airports can provide

Certainly not so many Ryanair airports ......