New Lisbon Airport

New Lisbon Airport (Portuguese: Novo Aeroporto de Lisboa, NAL) is the currently planned site for construction of a new Lisbon Airport to serve the Center and South of Portugal. It was originally scheduled to replace or complement the current Portela Airport by the year 2017. Following a series of delays, in 2018 the government announced a revival of the project. The airport is anticipated to be completed by 2022.

Novo Aeroporto de Lisboa, NAL

Novo Aeroporto de Lisboa – Montijo
Summary
OwnerNovo Aeroporto, SA (NAER)
OperatorANA Aeroportos de Portugal
ServesLisbon
LocationMontijo
Elevation AMSL211−213 ft / 50−55 m
Coordinates38.766083°N 8.725300°W / 38.766083; -8.725300
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
1/19 7,044 2,147
Montijo Air Base 2019

History

After years of debate and public consultation whether Rio Frio or Ota would be the place to build a new Lisbon airport, a new location was proposed in Alcochete and won as it was more accessible given the good infrastructure nearby, such as the Vasco da Gama Bridge. The location of Alcochete as the construction site of the future Lisbon Airport was confirmed by the Portuguese Government on 8 May 2008.[1] The estimated cost for the project is €3 billion (approximately US$4.5 billion). Construction started in late 2010 but, in May 2010, forced by the financial crisis, Prime Minister José Sócrates put the project on hold.[2]

The green field facility envisaged in the 2000s was to have four runways, and was expected to service over 50 million passengers annually.[3]

After the termination of the new airport project, a plan was later put forward to keep the existing airport in service, but also convert the preexisting Naval Air Base in Montijo into a facility for low cost carriers.[4]

In November 2018, at an IATA congress in Madrid, Pedro Marques, Minister of Planning and Infrastructure, stated that Montijo airport would start operating by 2022.[5] French construction group Vinci, which owns ANA Aeroportos de Portugal, said in 2019 it would invest 1.15 billion euros ($1.39 billion) in the expansion of Lisbon's main airport and the construction of the new one.[6] On 31 October 2019, the IATA declared that operations for low cost airlines would begin in 2021.

In March 2021, Portugal's aviation regulator ANAC rejected the evaluation request submitted by ANA, citing disagreements with the municipalities in and around the new airport as well as environmental concerns.[7]

Airlines and Destinations
AirlinesDestinations
Ryanair Aalborg, Aarhus, Agadir, Alicante, Ancona, Athens, Barcelona, Bari, Bergamo, Bergerac, Berlin, Biarritz, Billund, Bologna, Bordeaux, Bratislava, Bremen, Brindisi, Brno, Bucharest, Budapest, Bydgoszcz, Cagliari, Carcassonne, Castellón, Cluj-Napoca, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Cork, Dortmund, Dresden, Dublin, Eindhoven, Essaouira,[8] Faro, Fez,[9] Frankfurt, Fuerteventura, Funchal (begins 29 March 2022),[10] Gdańsk, Genoa, Girona, Gothenburg, Gran Canaria, Hamburg, Helsinki, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Katowice, Kaunas, Kerry, Knock, Košice, Kraków, Kyiv–Boryspil, Lamezia Terme, Lanzarote, La Rochelle, Limoges, Łódź, Lourdes, Luxembourg, Lviv, Maastricht (begins 28 March 2022),[11] Madrid, Málaga, Malta, Marrakesh, Marseille, Memmingen, Milan–Malpensa, Nantes, Naples, Olsztyn-Mazury, Oradea, Örebro (begins 28 March 2022),[12] Oslo, Ostrava, Palanga, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Perugia, Pescara, Pisa, Plovdiv, Podgorica, Poitiers, Ponta Delgada, Porto, Poznań, Prague, Rabat, Riga, Rome–Ciampino, Rzeszów, Salzburg, Sandefjord, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Shannon, Sofia, Stockholm–Arlanda, Stockholm–Västerås, Szczecin, Tallinn, Tampere, Tenerife–South, Thessaloniki, Toulouse, Tours, Trapani, Trieste, Turin, Valencia, Växjö (begins 27 March 2022),[13] Verona, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw–Modlin, Wrocław, Zagreb,[14] Zaragoza
Seasonal: Alghero, Almería, Béziers, Brive, Chania, Corfu, Dole, Grenoble, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, Kalamata, Kefalonia, Menorca (begins 27 March 2022),[15] Murcia, Nimes, Perpignan, Preveza/Lefkada, Pula, Reus, Rhodes, Rimini, Rodez, Santorini,[16] Treviso, Venice, Zadar, Zakynthos


References
  1. Official website of the Government of Portugal about the project NAL. Retrieved 8 October 2011. (in Portuguese)
  2. "Sócrates adia investimentos públicos no aeroporto de Lisboa e terceira travessia do Tejo" Archived 22 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Público, 8 May 2010. Retrieved 7 October 2010. (in Portuguese)
  3. "Airports of the future: 19 weird and wonderful terminals under construction". The Telegraph. 4 February 2016. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  4. "New Lisbon Airport (2018)".
  5. News, E. C. O. (13 November 2018). "Government aims for new airport to start operating in 2022". ECO News. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  6. Catarina Demony (March 2, 2021), Plan for new Lisbon airport blocked, government pushes for solution Reuters.
  7. Catarina Demony (March 2, 2021), Plan for new Lisbon airport blocked, government pushes for solution Reuters.
  8. "News for Airlines, Airports and the Aviation Industry | CAPA".
  9. "Ryanair's Eddie Wilson: " You've got to give people confidence"".
  10. "Ryanair unveils 24 new routes for summer 2022".
  11. "Ryanair unveils 24 new routes for summer 2022".
  12. "Ryanair börjar flyga London-örebro - Örebro airport".
  13. "Ryanair unveils 24 new routes for summer 2022".
  14. "12 routes, 2 aircraft and 36 weekly flights: Ryanair to open Zagreb base!". CroatianAviation. 30 March 2021. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
  15. "Ryanair unveils 24 new routes for summer 2022".
  16. Weekly, Travel. "Ryanair raises UK summer capacity to Greece". Travel Weekly.
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