Beja Airport
Beja Airport
Location
Beja Airport, located 9 km (5.6
mi) northwest of Beja, is 150 km (93 mi) away from Lisbon, 120 kilometres (75
mi) from Faro and less than 60 km (37 mi) from Spain. Beja is a city in the
Beja Municipality in the Alentejo Region, Portugal. The municipality has a
total area of 1,147.1 km2 (442.9 sq mi) and a total population of 34,970
inhabitants. The city proper has a population of 21,658.
History
An airbase was established on 21
October 1964, originally built to serve as a training facility for the West
German Air Force, due to airspace limitations within West Germany. Until 1993
it was used particularly for weapons training, and in 1987 the Portuguese Air
Force's 103 Squadron and its Lockheed T-33 and Northrop T-38 aircraft was
relocated from Montijo. After their arrival, the base started to host a mixed
array of fixed and rotary-wing trainers, as well as maritime patrol aircraft.
Along with the airports in
Lisbon, Porto, Faro, Funchal (Madeira), Porto Santo, Flores, Santa Maria, Ponta
Delgada and Horta, the airport's concessions to provide support to civil
aviation was conceded to ANA Aeroportos de Portugal on 18 December 1998, under
provisions of decree 404/98. With this concession, ANA was also provided to the
planning, development and construction of future infrastructures.
In 2011 a new civilian terminal
was built and Beja became a dual-use military-civilian airport, aiming to
attract low-cost carriers. The inaugural flight to Praia, Cape Verde, took
place on 13 April 2011. There were also charter flights to the United Kingdom.
In spite of being the only
Portuguese airport in Alentejo—the biggest Portuguese region, with an area
comparable to the size of Belgium—the airport failed to attract the attention
of low-cost carriers and has never had any scheduled regular flights. As of
September 2012, plans to reconvert it into cargo use are under discussion. It
may possibly be a logistics platform between the goods that are shipped to the
nearby Port of Sines and the whole of Europe. On September 2013, it was
announced that Aigle Azur would start seasonal flights from Paris to the
airport. As of September 2012, the future of the airport remains uncertain. The
authorities are studying the possibility of reconverting the airport to cargo
use.
While the airport has no
scheduled passenger flights, it is used by Hi Fly and its Maltese subsidiary
for parking aircraft. A related sister company is also building a new hangar at
the airport for the maintenance of both Hi Fly planes and third-party Airbus
aircraft, supplementing its operations at Humberto Delgado Airport.
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