Covid-19. Lisbon Terminal 2 reopens on Thursday
In partnership with the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF), five border control 'egates' will be available for passengers of legal age with electronic European passports or Portuguese citizen cards.
Terminal 2 at Lisbon Airport, with operations suspended since 30 March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, will reopen next Thursday, ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal announced on Monday.
“With the increase in traffic, although reduced compared to 2019 figures, ANA Aeroportos de Portugal has decided to proceed with the reopening of T2 [terminal 2] on 1 July,” the company said in a statement.
Terminal 2 suspended operations on 30 March 2020, since at the beginning of the crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, commercial flights from this terminal were relocated to terminal 1, and the “space was used solely for special flights to support the NHS and humanitarian flights.
In a statement released today, ANA informs passengers that “check-in and boarding for flights booked from 04:00 on 1 July, through Blue Air, EasyJet, Norwegian, Transavia and Ryanair will be carried out at T2, so they should go to this terminal”.
Passengers with flights booked with Wizzair “should check with the airline as to which terminal they should board”.
ANA added that during the period when this terminal had no commercial activity due to the pandemic, the company “had the conducted improvements and modernization […], namely the expansion of the Non-Schengen departure area, the reformulation and expansion of sanitary facilities and the creation of a new waiting area”.
In partnership with the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF), five border control ‘egates’ will be available for passengers of legal age with electronic European passports or Portuguese citizen cards, ANA said.
National airports received 739,000 passengers in April, 86% less than in the same month in 2019, but higher than in April 2020, when the pandemic stopped traffic at airports, INE revealed on 21 June.
