Lisbon Airport › Arrivals
Every flight to Lisbon Airport arrives at Terminal 1, whichever airline operates the flight.
The arrivals board for Lisbon Airport shows flight number, origin, scheduled and expected time and the current status in real time, which helps anyone timing a pick-up, because flights from the United Kingdom and Ireland also pass through passport control before the baggage hall.
Flight data is supplied by a third party and may differ from the official displays in the terminal.
The board for Lisbon Airport uses a handful of status messages: scheduled means no change, estimated gives the updated time, landed appears when the aircraft touches down, and delayed or cancelled speak for themselves. After landing, passengers need a while longer to reach the arrivals hall of Terminal 1, because bags have to be delivered and travellers from outside the Schengen area pass through border control. British passport holders are registered in the European Entry/Exit System, which records a facial image and fingerprints, and the operator of Lisbon Airport warns that passport control can take more time as a result.
One flight can appear under two numbers when airlines sell seats on each other's services, which is common on TAP Air Portugal routes. If you cannot find a flight number on the board for Lisbon Airport, search by the origin or destination and the scheduled time instead. With a single runway in use, late-evening arrivals at Lisbon Airport are often pushed back, so check the board again before leaving for the terminal.
Anyone meeting a passenger at Lisbon Airport should watch the status rather than the scheduled time and add the wait for passport control and luggage; all arrivals come out at Terminal 1.
Stopping at the departures kerbside of Lisbon Airport is free for ten minutes only; for a longer wait use car park P2 at the Arrivals level.
Onward travellers to Sintra or the Algarve can ride the metro from Lisbon Airport to Gare do Oriente in about 10 minutes; a single ticket costs €1.90 plus €0.50 for the reusable card.
The metro from Lisbon Airport stops running at 01:00, so after a late landing plan on a fixed-fare taxi, €20 or €23 at night, or a pre-booked transfer.
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