Illustration: Luís de Camões Airport Observatory (original work). Not to scale; not the airport design.

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Long-term passenger capacity
Status: Target / forecast
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Strategic demand scenario for 2050
Status: Target / forecast
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Aircraft stands
Status: Officially proposed
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Airbus A380 — a Code F aircraft
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Chart: passenger capacity scenarios
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Chart: Lisbon airport passengers and planned capacity
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Passengers at national airports up 39.3% in 2021, but less than half of 2019 (INE)
INE preliminary data: Lisbon airport handled 12.2 million passengers in 2021, up 31.2% on 2020 and down 61.0% on 2019.
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Passengers at Portuguese airports up almost 19% in 2023 (INE)
INE preliminary data: Lisbon airport handled 33.6 million passengers in 2023 (49.8% of the national total), up 19.1% on 2022 and 7.9% on 2019.
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Passengers at national airports up 4% to more than 70 million in 2024 (INE)
INE preliminary data: Lisbon airport handled 35.1 million passengers in 2024 (49.8% of the national total), up 4.3% on 2023.
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Portugal’s airports saw 72.5 million passengers in 2025
VINCI Airports traffic data: Lisbon's Humberto Delgado Airport handled 36.1 million passengers in 2025, up 2.9% on 2024.