Lisbon Airport Celebrates 75 Years

This increase will be 4.5 million passengers more than in 2016. In the last four years, Lisbon Airport grew 7.2 million passengers, while in the previous eight years the increase was 4.6 million.

The continuous passenger records that have been achieved year after year have resulted in a huge contribution to the city of Lisbon, which also lives the best tourist years ever, at a time when the tourism sector is one of the main pillars of our economic development. In Lisbon this fact is strongly linked to the performance of Lisbon Airport, since 95% of tourists arrive in the Portuguese capital by plane.

In order to leverage the exponential traffic growth that has been registered, ANA Aeroportos de Portugal and VINCI Airports have been investing continuously in improvements in infrastructure, which have allowed to generate efficiencies with the consequent capacity increases.

In a short future, more investments have already been planned, which should be available as early as the IATA summer of 2018. This is the case for the duplication of shipping channels for all Schengen ports in Terminal 1 that do not yet have this facility. But also the creation of two new non-Schengen boarding gates, or the ongoing installation of automatic lines in the security control, which will significantly increase passenger processing and the quality of the service provided. The planned investment also includes the renovation of the check-in area.

These investments anticipate the need for capacity in the different airport systems that will result from the availability of more airspace by the responsible entities.

But it is not only the anniversary and the history of the past and present of the Airport Humberto Delgado that is being celebrated in the ceremony taking place today, November 13, in the terminal of arrivals of the airport and that counts on the presences of the Minister of Planning and Infrastructures, Pedro Marques, the Mayor of Lisbon, Fernando Medina, the CEO of VINCI Concessions and President of VINCI Airports, Nicolas Notebaert and the CEO of ANA Aeroportos de Portugal, Carlos Lacerda.

The future is also in the line. In order to leverage the future of the airport capacity of the Lisbon region, ANA Aeroportos de Portugal and VINCI Airports have once again defended the creation of a new civil airport in Montijo. The proposal of ANA Aeroportos de Portugal and VINCI Airports will now be evaluated.

In his speech, Nicolas Notebaert, CEO of VINCI Concessions and President of VINCI Airports, said that "a new airport in Montijo is the best solution for the country, for the city of Lisbon as well as the metropolitan region of Lisbon and mainly for the south of this area, the best solution for passengers and for airlines", adding that "it is the solution that allows a timely response and minimization of passenger loss in view of the expected growth of air traffic, besides allowing to be concluded earlier, for predicting an existing infrastructure that can be used. It is also the least demanding solution in the need for additional accessibility development. "

Carlos Lacerda, Chief Executive Officer of ANA Aeroportos de Portugal, confirmed that "we have already delivered a proposal to increase Lisbon airport capacity through Humberto Delgado Airport and a new airport in Montijo" and explained that "the next steps involve a work of deepening and detailing the various dimensions of the proposal" adding that "it is only the first step of what we know will be a joint effort between all entities involved, which will continue with total commitment and with the positive attitude we have felt so far in the solution, targeting the objectives of the region and the country. "

Visit the video of the logo of the 75th birthday at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrnptRDL6xA

Visit the video with images of Lisbon Airport 1942-2017 at: https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=G0ejD8dku8Q