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I follow a Travel Portugal Facebook group, and there have been numerous pictures and posts about huge crowds and multi hour waits to clear immigration when leaving the Lisbon airport for months now.I see this was on your US Embassy website. As a Canadian, I will be arriving in AMS first before transferring to a flight to Lisbon. Just curious if there are any other reliable, and up-to-date sites we should be monitoring?
I don't know if this helps or not, but the border service has just allowed Canadians and Americans to join the automated gates for passport control at Lisboa Airport...Further information tothe posts regarding delays at Lisbon Airport for arrivals from non Schengen countries
Alert: U.S. Embassy (Lisbon, Portugal) (June 13, 2022)
Location: Lisbon’s Humberto Delgado International Airport
Event: Significant Delays at Passport Control for Arriving Passengers
Unscheduled strikes by inspectors from the Portuguese Immigration and Border Service (SEF) at Lisbon’s Humberto Delgado International Airport, and other staffing issues, have caused delays of four hours or more for passengers arriving from outside of the Schengen area (including from the United States) to clear passport control.
Those arriving in Portugal should prepare for long waits. Food or water may not be available in the airport’s non-Schengen arrival hall.
Interesting. Don’t know if it may become permanent. I Think at LHR, USA, Canadians, Australians, New Zealand and a few more nations can can use egates along with EU folks..I don't know if this helps or not, but the border service has just allowed Canadians and Americans to join the automated gates for passport control at Lisboa Airport...
Passengers off US, Canada flights can use e-gates at Lisbon airport
Measures are announced after long queues and hours of waiting have been recorded by passengers arriving in Lisbon off flights from outside the European Union.econews.pt
Bom caminho!
If you first entered the Schengen area in Amsterdam, then you would be in the Schengen zone… so you won’t need to pass another border/immigration check in Lisbon. You will still have to queue/wait for your luggage if you have any checked luggage, I don’t know what the situation is with luggage handling.I see this was on your US Embassy website. As a Canadian, I will be arriving in AMS first before transferring to a flight to Lisbon. Just curious if there are any other reliable, and up-to-date sites we should be monitoring?
I hope this is a bit of a "one-off" bad weekend. Heathrow, in UK, also seems to have had a particularly awful couple of days. It sounds as if many European airports are having problems with shortages of staff right now just as everyone starts travelling for their summer holidays.More people need to be warned about Lisbon airport. 5+ hours trapped, like sardines. Never fly into Lisbon again. There were 3X more people administering first aid than 2-3 people checking non-EU/EEC passports, and many times more security and airport staff herding us into the bottle neck. Never again.
This may sound like a daft question but what time of day did you arrive? We are scheduled to arrive there at 19:30 in 6 weeks time. I'm hoping that in the evening there is less traffic through the airport!!More people need to be warned about Lisbon airport. 5+ hours trapped, like sardines. Never fly into Lisbon again. There were 3X more people administering first aid than 2-3 people checking non-EU/EEC passports, and many times more security and airport staff herding us into the bottle neck. Never again.
19:30 should not be as bad, I don't think. Keep in mind that everyone in Portugal has a usually leisurely lunch between 1300 and 1500 (somewhat of an exaggeration but not much). So arrivals anytime between 12:00 or so (getting you to immigration by about 12:30, by which time they're thinking about lunch) till about 16:00 (clearing the backlog that may have occurred through lunch, during which they are more likely to be short-staffed) will be slower.This may sound like a daft question but what time of day did you arrive? We are scheduled to arrive there at 19:30 in 6 weeks time. I'm hoping that in the evening there is less traffic through the airport!!
This might help a bit, just to see when the highest density of non-EU flights are arriving. Keep in mind that this will also include South America (with significant number of flights from Brazil), Africa (with flights from Portuguese-related countries Mozambique, Angola and others), and the rest of the world...also the UK (England, Scotland) since Brexit...I see this was on your US Embassy website. As a Canadian, I will be arriving in AMS first before transferring to a flight to Lisbon. Just curious if there are any other reliable, and up-to-date sites we should be monitoring?
Duh.... Forgot about that. Thank you. It's been soooooooo long......If you first entered the Schengen area in Amsterdam, then you would be in the Schengen zone… so you won’t need to pass another border/immigration check in Lisbon. You will still have to queue/wait for your luggage if you have any checked luggage, I don’t know what the situation is with luggage handling.
More people need to be warned about Lisbon airport. 5+ hours trapped, like sardines. Never fly into Lisbon again. There were 3X more people administering first aid than 2-3 people checking non-EU/EEC passports, and many times more security and airport staff herding us into the bottle neck. Never again.
Once fully completed by 2025, the airport will have six sets of runways (eight in total), 16 taxiways, and a total annual passenger capacity of 150 million passengers. If fully expanded to a capacity of 200 million,
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