PM to address nation over decision on location of new Lisbon airport
Alcochete finally agreed upon After well over half a century of delays, mind-changing and embarrassing false starts, Portugal’s AD government has decided that Lisbon’s new airport will be located at
APA vetoes renewal of ‘environmental impact declaration’ for Montijo airport
Years of opposition appears to have finally paid off: APA (the Portuguese environment agency) has announced that it will not be ‘renewing’ the expired environmental impact declaration ‘won’ by the
Commission for new Lisbon airport tries (yet again) for political consensus
Challenges future government (and opposition) “not to waste taxpayers’ money” The Independent Technical Commission (CTI) for Lisbon’s new airport is trying again for political consensus. It has recommended that the
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
Work on Montijo airport could begin in April 2021
The chairman of the Portuguese airports management company ANA, José Luís Arnaut, said last week that works on the project for a new Lisbon secondary international airport on the south
Montijo airport: hope at last for anti-campaigners who say plan is utter madness
Hope has come at last for the myriad campaigners fighting plans for a new airport at Montijo Air Base (on the south bank of the Tejo below Lisbon). The consequences
Montijo airport study probed for “falsification of documents, abuse of power and corruption”
After all the dissenting voices pointing to corruption, Sábado online has confirmed that PJ police are investigating the ‘green light’ given by government agencies ANA and the ICNF to a
Montijo airport: government to take advantage of sector’s nosedive to ‘develop and improve project’
The Council of Ministers agreed last week to ‘take advantage’ of the time it’s going to take the airline industry to get back on its feet and ‘develop and improve
New threat looms over Montijo following April Fool’s ‘hoax’
Following the embarrassing April Fool’s hoax which announced the shelving of controversial plans to site a busy passenger terminal in Montijo – alongside one of southern Europe’s most important birding
Hoax email announces ‘cancellation of Montijo airport’
Wednesday saw the announcement in various onlines that so many people have been waiting (and praying) for: ‘plans for a new passenger terminal at Montijo airbase have been cancelled’. Only