Lisbon Humberto Delgado Airport

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Aeroporto Humberto Delgado Lisboa
Aeroporto Lisboa - panoramio.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code LPPT
IATA code LIS
Coordinates

38 ° 46 '27 "  N , 9 ° 8' 3"  W Coordinates: 38 ° 46 '27 "  N , 9 ° 8' 3"  W.

Height above MSL 114 m (374  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 7 km north of Lisbon
Street A1 E1
Local transport Lisbon Metro
Basic data
opening October 15, 1942
operator ANA Aeroportos de Portugal
Terminals 2
Passengers 29,031,268 (2018)
Air freight 124.205 (2018)
Flight
movements
213,711 (2018)
Employees 2800
Runways
03/21 3705 m × 45 m asphalt
17/35 2315 m × 45 m asphalt



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The Humberto Delgado Airport , and Lisbon airport ( port. : Earlier Aeroporto da Portela ) is the international passenger airport of Lisbon , capital of Portugal , and the largest airport in the country. It is operated by the airport company ANA . Since 2012 there has been a direct underground connection to downtown Lisbon.

The Portuguese Air Force Força Aérea Portuguesa (FAP) use a small part as a military airfield and refer to it as Aeródromo Militar de Lisboa (Figo Maduro) .

history

Reception hall in the main terminal

Before Portela Airport opened, only the simple Campo Internacional de Aterragem Airport near Alverca existed .

In the 1930s, transatlantic flights were mainly completed in flying boats , but the continental onward flights were in conventional aircraft. Due to its location as the westernmost capital of Europe, Lisbon had ideal conditions for these flights. The government therefore decided to build two new airports: a terrestrial one, today 's Humberto Delgado Airport, and the Aeroporto Marítimo de Cabo Ruivo for seaplanes on the Tagus River . Construction of the two airports began in 1938 and was completed in 1940. In order to enable a fast car connection between the airports, the Avenida Entre-Aeroportos was also built.

Terminal 2 was inaugurated on August 1, 2007.

Since July 17, 2012, the airport is via the Underground Station Aeroporto to the network of Metro Lisbon tethered.

Although the decision to build a new airport near Alcochete had been made in 2008 , the Portuguese government under Pedro Passos Coelho decided in 2012 to expand it; at the same time, the start of construction work on the new Alcochete airport was postponed indefinitely. In February 2017, the Portuguese Minister of Infrastructure, Pedro Marques , announced that the Montijo military airfield would be converted for commercial flight operations from 2019 . As the second international airport in Lisbon, it should primarily be available for medium-haul and low-cost flights .

On May 15, 2016, the airport was officially renamed Aeroporto Humberto Delgado Lisboa .

Airlines and Destinations

The airport, named after Humberto Delgado , has connections to numerous European destinations as well as several long-haul destinations with a focus on Latin America . The airport serves as the hub for TAP Air Portugal (TAP).

From German-speaking countries, TAP flies from Berlin-Tegel , Düsseldorf , Frankfurt , Cologne / Bonn , Geneva , Hamburg , Hanover , Luxembourg , Munich , Stuttgart, Vienna and Zurich to Lisbon-Portela. EasyJet flies from Berlin-Schönefeld , Basel , Geneva and Luxembourg; Germanwings from Cologne-Bonn and Stuttgart ; Lufthansa flies from Munich and Frankfurt am Main; Eurowings for Lufthansa Regional from Düsseldorf and Munich ; Swiss from Zurich; Ryanair from Bremen , Hamburg, Frankfurt-Hahn, Frankfurt am Main and Luxembourg.

Traffic figures

Traffic figures for Aeroporto Humberto Delgado Lisboa 2012–2018
year Passenger volume Air freight ( tons ) Flight movements
2018 29,031,268
0+ 8.9%
124.205
+ 7.3%
213.711
0+ 7.3%
2017 26,663,096
+ 18.8%
115,759 199,262
+ 11.5%
2016 22,449,289
+ 11.7%
- 178,639
+ 10.2%
2015 20,090,418
+ 10.7%
- 162.042
0+ 6.4%
2014 18.142.035
+ 13.3%
- 152.335
0+ 7.0%
2013 16,008,848
0+ 4.6%
- 142,333
0+1.0%
2012 15,301,176 - 140.909

Incidents

  • On February 1, 1947 collided a Douglas DC-3C of Air France ( air vehicle registration number F-BAXQ ) at Peninha with the hills of Sintra Mountains 28 kilometers west of the destination airport Portela. The aircraft, which took off from Bordeaux-Mérignac airport , was approaching for landing when the accident occurred in bad weather and darkness. Of the 16 occupants, 15 were killed, all 5 crew members and 10 of the 11 passengers.
  • On January 27, 1948, a Douglas C-47 (DC-3) of the Transportes Aéreos Portugueses (CS-TDB) crashed on a training flight in bad weather south of Lisbon. All three people on board were killed.
  • On June 8, 1948, a Douglas C-47 (DC-3) of the Transportes Aéreos Portugueses (CS-TDF) crashed on a training flight at Lisbon-Portela Airport after an engine had been shut off during take-off. All five occupants survived the accident; the plane was a total write-off.
  • On September 3, 1948, a Douglas DC-4 of the Transportes Aéreos Portugueses (CS-TSB) crashed on a training flight at Lisbon-Portela Airport. The landing was so hard that the plane was totaled. All five crew members survived the accident.

Web links

Commons : Humberto Delgado Airport  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Annual Reports. ANA.pt , accessed on August 13, 2019 .
  2. Lisbon dreams of the most beautiful airport in the world In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of March 16, 2019
  3. Aeroporto de Lisboa continua na Portela e vai ser ampliado DN Online, June 1, 2012 (pt)
  4. Lisbon is planning a second international airport. Spiegel Online, February 16, 2017, accessed February 18, 2017
  5. ^ Accident report DC-3 F-BAXQ , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on October 21, 2019.
  6. Air-Britain Archive: Casualty compendium part 45 (English), June 1992, pp. 93/53.
  7. ^ Accident report DC-3 CS-TDB , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on October 21, 2019.
  8. ^ Accident report DC-3 CS-TDF , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on October 21, 2019.
  9. ^ Accident report DC-4 CS-TSB , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on October 21, 2019.