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The airport is expected to be shut down after the Lisbon Luís de Camões Airport is fully operational, scheduled for 2034. [9] However the announcement should be taken cautiously and in historical context as plans for a new airport to Lisbon have been set forth and then postponed for at least five decades. [10] [11] [12]
Luís de Camões Airport (Aeroporto Luís de Camões) is a planned international airport that will primarily serve Lisbon, the capital of Portugal.It will be located 40 km by road from Lisbon's downtown, on the current site of Field Firing Range of Alcochete, an area administratively part of the civil parishes of Samora Correia (in Benavente municipality) and Canha (in Montijo municipality).
In the 1930s, the Portuguese Government decided to replace the Campo Internacional de Aterragem, at Alverca, with two new airports nearer to Lisbon's city center: today's Lisbon Portela Airport and the Cabo Ruivo Seaplane Base on the Tagus River, which handled transatlantic flights operated with seaplanes.
Portugal will build a new international airport in the municipality of Alcochete, across the River Tagus from Lisbon, Prime Minister Luis Montenegro announced on Tuesday after decades of back-and ...
Ota Airport would likely have served the airlines and their destinations that currently serve Lisbon Portela Airport. After over eight years of debate other options such as Alcochete at 38°46′30″N 8°52′55″W / 38.77500°N 8.88194°W / 38.77500; -8.88194 , were still being discussed as a viable alternative
Porto Airport. At the end of the 1980s, a major expansion in both the economy and air traffic was witnessed at the global and national level. For ANA, it was a period of investment in basic infrastructures, with the renewal of the Air Traffic Control systems and the Lisbon, Porto and Faro airports.
Rank Airport IATA Region Total passengers Annual change Total movements Annual change 1: Lisbon Airport: LIS: Lisbon: 22,449,289: 11,7%: 178,639: 10,2% 2: Porto Airport
A new chapter in the history of Lisbon was written with the social revolution of the 1383–1385 Crisis. This was a time of civil war in Portugal when no crowned king reigned. It began when King Ferdinand I of Portugal died without male heirs, and his kingdom ostensibly passed to the King of Castile, John I of Castile. [134]