Salgado Filho Porto Alegre International Airport (POA) to the city

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Salgado Filho has its own station on the Trensurb metro, plus a bus terminal. Ten city bus routes call at the airport station.

The airport has its own metro station, called Estacao Aeroporto on the Trensurb line.
That is unusual in Brazil. Most Brazilian airports have no rail at all, and it is the reason Porto Alegre is easy to arrive at.
Trensurb runs north to south through the city, so the airport station puts you on a direct line to the centre and the Mercado Publico.
There is also a bus terminal at the airport station, listed in the city's data as Terminal Estacao Aeroporto.
Ten city bus routes call there: 7052, 7053, B02, B09, B56, T5, T51, T52, T11 and T111.
The T-prefixed routes are the north-south trunk services, the B-prefixed ones neighbourhood to centre.
Other stops sit on Avenida Severo Dullius and the Carrion Junior interchange, which is the road side of the airport.
Salgado Filho is about 6 km north of the centre, so the ride is short either way.

Salgado Filho has a Trensurb station of its own, Estacao Aeroporto. In Brazil that is rare enough to be the headline: Sao Paulo Guarulhos, Rio Galeao, Brasilia and Recife all get by without a proper airport metro, and Porto Alegre does not.
Trensurb is Porto Alegre's north-south metro, running from the centre out through the northern suburbs to Novo Hamburgo. The airport is on it.
The city's own transport data lists both the station and a bus terminal there, Terminal Estacao Aeroporto, so bus and train interchange in one place.

Ten routes call at the airport station: 7052, 7053, B02, B09, B56, T5, T51, T52, T11 and T111.
The T routes are trunk services running north to south through the city; the B routes run neighbourhood to centre.
More stops sit on the road side, on Avenida Severo Dullius and at the Carrion Junior interchange, if you are walking out to the main road.

The centre is about 6 km away, so neither the train nor a taxi is a long trip.
The Mercado Publico stop is the one for the old centre and the market, and it is a Trensurb station as well as a bus stop.
Check which terminal you are landing at. Salgado Filho's two terminals are a walk apart, and the station serves the main one.

Salgado Filho is the gateway to Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil's southernmost state, and the natural entry point for Gramado, the Serra Gaucha wine country and the crossing to Uruguay and Argentina.
It is run under concession by Fraport, which rebuilt the terminal.
Winter here is genuinely cold by Brazilian standards. Pack for it if you are arriving between June and August.

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Getting from Salgado Filho Porto Alegre International Airport to the city