Aaron S.
Yelp
Lisbon Airport (Humberto Delgado Airport) is the largest airport in Portugal, it's remarkably close to the city centre and takes around 20 minutes on the Red Line of the Lisbon Metro.
It's divided across two terminals, with low-cost airlines using Terminal 2 when departing Lisbon, although all airlines use Terminal 1 for arrivals - I did find this a little confusing as my airline ticket didn't say much, and they don't make it clear how to get to Terminal 2, I ended up having to ask a police officer who informed me the only way to get to Terminal 2 was via shuttle bus.
The main entrance to the Airport seemed rather pleasant, as I was visiting just before Christmas, there was a large Christmas tree and it seemed pleasant and modern, the vast contradiction when entering Terminal 2 was highly noticeable. Terminal 2 just seemed like a god-awful run down Airport from a third-world country, it felt so basic, it was like I'd gone back in time by a couple of decades.
The queues were poorly managed throughout the Airport including at check-in and security, with no bag-drop machines which you see at the larger airports. I did have to wait quite a while just to check my bags.
Terminal 2 is basically two large halls, one to check in your bags, and one after security while you wait to head to your gate.
After security, the Airport didn't have much at all going on, there was a McDonald's, a Nespresso-branded counter serving coffee, a Heineken-branded counter serving beer, but little else. The Duty-Free was small, and there wasn't any generic store selling bottled drinks, snacks and travel essentials.
There was a lack of seating and outlets throughout the Terminal too, in both the general area and the food area, I even struggled to get a seat anywhere in the evening, while waiting for my delayed night flight, so I'd hate to imagine what it'd be like in the peak period of the day.
The Airport also had a lack of announcements which didn't fill me with confidence when my flight was delayed, and more updates would have been appreciated.
2* - Lisbon is such a beautiful city but the Airport doesn't meet that, it isn't practical for a city the size of Lisbon and the passenger numbers it gets. Lisbon Airport alone gets more than double the number of passengers of Porto, the country's second busiest airport.