New Airport

Portugal’s Confederation of Tourism says Portugal has lost over €2Bn because of a lack of airport capacity at Lisbon’s Humberto Delgado International Airport. Forbes reports that the Confederação [...]

Portugal’s government announced this week that it has selected a former army shooting range site at Alcochete on the South bank of the River Tagus, some 45km from Lisbon, as the location for the [...]

Alcochete and Vendas Novas are the two preferred options for the new Lisbon international airport but the Independent Technical Commission has added Santarém as a possible option. The Independent [...]

The company that manages Portugal’s airports, ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal, says that the arguments from the Portuguese environment agency APA not to extend an environmental impact [...]

Hot headed Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary said this week that the Portuguese government needed to pull its finger out and get on with building the new Lisbon airport at Montijo. Announcing 14 new [...]

Ryanair’s Chief Commercial Officer Jason McGuinness has dismissed any idea that Lisbon’s new airport could become an international hub as “ridiculous”. According to an exclusive from the online [...]

The company that operates Portugal’s airports, ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal, says it is “extremely concerned” at suppositions made by the Independent Technical Commission (CTI) appointed by [...]

The period of public consultation into the preliminary report on Lisbon’s new international airport ends today. (Friday, January 26) The report was drawn up by the Independent Technical [...]

The Sino-Portuguese multinational construction company Mota-Engil has sold its business in Poland to the Hungarian construction giant Duna Aszfalt1 for €90 million. The deal is expected to be [...]

If there were ever a concrete argument for a new Lisbon international airport the latest figures for passenger footfall at Humberto Delgado was it. Humberto Delgado airport will hit a new high in [...]