- IATA
- LIS
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- LPPT
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1942
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 9.3M
- in 2020
History & name
Lisbon Humberto Delgado Airport opened in 1942 and is named after Lisbon and the Portuguese politician Humberto Delgado (1906-1965). Operated by ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal, it lies just 6 km from Lisbon and handled 9.3 million passengers in 2020 on a single 3,810 m runway.
Named afterHumberto Delgado — Portuguese politician (1906-1965)
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Lisbon Humberto Delgado Airport
- Serves
- Lisbon, Portugal
- City centre
- 6 km from Lisbon
- Opened
- 1942
- Operator
- ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal
- Passengers
- 9.3 million in 2020
- Runways
- 1 runway, 3,810 m
- Elevation
- 374 ft (114 m)
- Website
- lisbonairport.pt ↗
Where it sits
38.8°N, 9.1°W puts LIS in the northern hemisphere, 4,312 km from the equator and 5,695 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 195th most northerly, which makes it the 467th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 38.8°S, 170.9°E — 344 km from Nelson (NSN) in New Zealand, which is about as close to a true antipodal airport pair as this table gets.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Faro - Gago Coutinho (FAO), 221 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from LIS
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Rio de Janeiro, at 7,715 km.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | LHR | 1,564 km | 2h 27m |
| New York | JFK | 5,404 km | 7h 13m |
| Rio de Janeiro | GIG | 7,715 km | 10h 05m |
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
What you won’t find: terminal maps, airline lists, shops or live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that guessed at those would be worse than one that leaves them out.
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