Lisbon Humberto Delgado Airport guide

Humberto Delgado Airport opened on 15 October 1942, during the Second World War, on a site that benefited from Portugal's wartime neutrality. It carries the ICAO code LPPT and is named after Humberto Delgado, an air force general and opposition politician who challenged the Estado Novo regime in the 1958 presidential election. The Portuguese state owns the airport; ANA Aeroportos de Portugal operates it under a concession held by Vinci Airports that runs from 2012 to 2062.

TAP Air Portugal operates its main hub here, Ryanair and easyJet both run substantial low-cost operations, and Azores Airlines uses Lisbon as a focus city for onward flights to the Azores and Madeira. The airport handled 36.1 million passengers in 2025, up 2.9% on the previous year, across roughly 227,000 aircraft movements. A single runway, 3,705 metres long, carries all traffic; a shorter second runway has been closed to flight operations.

The airport sits inside Lisbon's built-up area, in the Portela de Sacavém district of neighbouring Loures municipality, rather than on the city's edge. That proximity keeps road transfers into central Lisbon short, but it also limits room for runway expansion, a constraint that has driven Portugal's long-running debate over a second airport for the Lisbon area.