Contingency plan sets out to contain strike threatening Portuguese airports
Union warns two-day strike will cause ‘major disruption’ at all Portuguese airports With Sttamp, the Portuguese Transport Workers’ Union, predicting “major disruption” for all Portuguese airports due to the strike
Government increases pressure on ANA airports authority
Gives ANA 120 days to submit Lisbon airport upgrade plans The government has given the country’s airports manager, ANA, 120 days to present projects to fulfil specific development obligations at
Lisbon airport sees 34 million passengers in 2023
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
Airports authority fails to sound-proof homes
Noise pollution over Lisbon flightpaths “off the scale” ANA airports authority has not just failed in a pledge to start soundproofing over 500 homes and 23 ‘sensitive buildings’ over flightpaths
Airports authority sues finance minister for “inertia”
Portugal’s finance minister João Leão risks becoming the first minister in this country to be tried for damages caused by doing absolutely nothing. This is the bottom line of a
Portugal’s airport baggage-handling chaos: ANA to revoke Groundforce licence
After the nightmare weekend in which 650 flights (the majority in and out of Lisbon) were cancelled due to a strike by baggage handlers employed by Groundforce, ANA airports authority
Thousands of passengers in limbo as Groundforce workers strike, causing ‘hundreds of cancellations’
Thousands of airline passengers have been left in limbo as the first few hours of a strike by Groundforce baggage-handlers saw the cancellation of over 180 flights. Indeed, the number
Aviation regulator ‘completely rejects’ Montijo airport project: is this the end of a rotten plan?
Aviation regulator ANAC has announced its ‘complete rejection’ of the request for prior viability assessment to build ‘the future Montijo airport’, south of Lisbon. This has been a project vociferously
Portuguese airports register 4.4% increase in flights in 2019
Portugal’s airport traffic control towers registered a 4.4% increase in flights in 2019, with the most significant spikes in air traffic movement happening in Cascais (+22.6%), Ponta Delgada (+6.6%) and
Lisbon airport expansion will bring 50 million visitors a year
Years of procrastination were brought to a halt last Tuesday when the government signed a €1.3 billion expansion deal with ANA airports authority that paves the way to the country