New Lisbon Airport

The current site for the development of a new Lisbon Airport Lisbon Airport (Portuguese: Novo Aeroporto de Lisboa, NAL) to serve the Center and South of Portugal is New Lisbon Airport (Portuguese: Novo Aeroporto de Lisboa, NAL).
By the year 2017, it was supposed to replace or supplement the current Portela Airport.
Following a series of setbacks, the government declared in 2018 that the project will be revived.
The airport is expected to be finished in 2022.

After years of debate and public engagement about whether to build a new Lisbon airport in Rio Frio or Ota, a new location in Alcochete was offered and won because it was more accessible due to surrounding good infrastructure, such as the Vasco da Gama Bridge.
On May 8, 2008, the Portuguese Government confirmed Alcochete as the building site for the future Lisbon Airport.
The project is expected to cost €3 billion (roughly US$4.5 billion). Construction began in late 2010, however Prime Minister José Sócrates put the project on hold in May 2010 due to the financial crisis.
The greenfield airport planned for the 2000s was to have four runways and serve more than 50 million passengers per year.
Following the cancellation of the new airport project, a plan was proposed to maintain the present airport operational while also converting the pre-existing Naval Air Base in Montijo into a low-cost carrier hub.
Pedro Marques, Minister of Planning and Infrastructure, indicated at an IATA meeting in Madrid in November 2018 that Montijo airport would open in 2022.