Lisbon Humberto Delgado Airport
Lisbon · Portugal · Europe/Lisbon
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Airport HistoryEst. 1942
Lisbon's airport opened on 15 October 1942 at Portela, during World War II, when neutral Portugal — and Lisbon in particular — served as one of the last open gateways out of occupied Europe for refugees, alongside the nearby Cabo Ruivo seaplane base used for transatlantic Pan Am Clipper flights. Long known simply as Portela Airport, it was renamed in 2016 for Humberto Delgado, an air force general and opposition presidential candidate against Portugal's Estado Novo dictatorship. Operated first by the state company ANA Aeroportos de Portugal and, since 2013, by France's Vinci Airports under a 50-year concession, the airport has become one of Europe's most congested, prompting long-running plans for a replacement facility. It remains on essentially the same site it opened on more than 80 years ago.
The airport opened on 15 October 1942, operating alongside the nearby Cabo Ruivo seaplane base, which handled transatlantic Clipper flights and fed passengers onto continental connections.
Air France operated the airport's first jet aircraft service using a Caravelle, marking Lisbon's entry into the jet age.
Runway 02/20 opened, allowing aircraft to fly nonstop transatlantic routes from Lisbon for the first time.
TWA became the first airline to operate the Boeing 747 into Lisbon, bringing wide-body jet capacity to the airport.
French infrastructure group Vinci Airports won the competitive privatization tender for ANA Aeroportos de Portugal, taking over airport operations under a 50-year concession (completed in 2013); the same year, an underground Metro station opened at the airport.
On 15 May 2016 the airport was officially renamed after Humberto Delgado, the Portuguese air force general and 1958 presidential candidate who opposed the Estado Novo regime.
Compiled from Wikipedia and Portuguese travel/aviation sources; the 2034 replacement-airport timeline is a forward-looking plan and should be treated as subject to change, not a settled fact.