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Lisboa Airport
Airport Directory » Portugal » Lisbon » Lisboa AirportLisbon Portela Airport, also known as Lisbon Airport (IATA: LIS, ICAO: LPPT), is turn up within the town of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. In Portuguese, it is named Aeroporto de Lisboa, Aeroporto da Portela, or Aeroporto da Portela de Sacavém. It takes its name from the neighbor parish (freguesia) of Portela, also known as Portela de Sacavém.
The airport is the independent international gateway to Portugal and a major European hub. It is 1 of the biggest airports in Southern Europe. The airport has 2 independent landing track, capable of adapting large-size aircraft such as the Boeing 747. During World War II, as the neutral airport was open to both German and British air hose, it was a hub for smuggling mortals into, out of and all around Europe. As such, it was to a great extent supervised by both Axis and Allied undercover agents. In 2007, the airport dealt 13 392 059 riders and 82 879 metric ton of freight. The airport is the briny base-hub of TAP Portugal. The airport is run by State-owned corporation ANA Aeroportos de Portugal.
The airport was opened on 15 October, 1942, with 4 1,000 m landing track. It rapidly spread out, with continued landing track and a new depot. It also spread out its parkland installations to let more aircraft motilities (110 437 in 2002).It has 6 jetways.
Replacement
The airport is currently totally border by urban development, being 1 of the few airports in Europe turn up inside a leading town. This has directed to a national argument on whether to hold the present place or to make a new airport, where this last option was taken. Initially, Ota, a small town 50 kilometre northward of Lisbon, was taken as 1 of the locations for the new airport. In 2007 an independent survey organised by the Portuguese Industry Confederation (CIP) proposed Alcochete as an alternative place (see Alcochete Airport). In Alcochete a armed forces grooming installation now busies the location, but the armed forces held to give up the place furnished they is able to conveyance their installation to a different area . A 2nd government-contracted survey guided by the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (LNEC) reason out in late 2007 that Alcochete was the most good place.
The Selection of Alcochete was denoted in January 10, 2008, more than 35 yr after the 1st capacity increase surveys were started. Portuguese chancellor José Sócrates denoted that Alcochete was the preliminary pick, to be nail down after public consultation.. The place of Alcochete as the building location of the future Lisbon Airport was support by the Portuguese Government on eight May 2008
Interim solution
In November 2006, the corporation functioning the airport, ANA Aeroportos de Portugal, denoted an enlargement programme for some airport building, in say to react to current rider traffic growing tendencies and full capacity use of the airport, until the new Lisbon international airport is complete in 2017.
This program regards the building of Terminal two (reasoned and operational since August 2007) and enlargement of the current independent depot, with new boarding entrances, new airbridges and new parkland places and a more efficient use of now being building and a new subway (subway) station. The programme should be finished 2010.
Currently, Terminal two is used for domestic regular voyages (including Madeira and Azores) while the independent construction (currently designated as Terminal one) functions all international regular and charter voyages. The use of Terminal two as a low cost depot was bring up to in the mass media, but no existent determination was do (it shall be hard to explicate unless different fees were bear down for depot one and 2, not now the example).
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