Flexibility
Sustainability
Ambition
Project for new airport in Santarém region.
Project for new airport in Santarém region.
The Magellan 500 Project for construction of an airport in the Santarém region has been set up and developed over 3 years by a consortium of private Portuguese business interests in collaboration with local bodies.
Validated and designed with extensive input from leading international specialist companies, and support from a prestigious law firm, the project has been conceived with Sustainability and Flexibility as the top priorities.
Council of Ministers Resolution no. 89/2022, of 29 September 2022, included Magellan 500 - “a private enterprise initiative promoted outside the existing concession” – in two of the five alternative strategic options of the Strategic Assessment for increasing airport capacity in the Lisbon region.
On November 29, 2022, at Fundação Oriente, CES- Conselho Económico e Social and the newspaper Público promoted the conference “NEW AIRPORT: time to decide”, in which the Magellan 500 Project was one of the guests.
Watch the first public presentation of the project, here.
With a location sited between two of the country's main transport infrastructures, the A1 motorway and the Northern Railway Line, Magellan 500 offers superb connectivity.
Around 30 minutes from Lisbon, a time that compares favourably with major city airports and 45 minutes from Coimbra.
Located at a motorway and rail hub that places more than 4 million people in Portugal within just over an hour of Magellan 500. Promoting economic development and territorial cohesion, including in inland regions.
As part of the research for this project over the past 3 years, with Portugal emerging from the pandemic, we have developed traffic forecasts for the Lisbon region, in conjunction with a specialised international firm. The findings are consistent with the forecasts for growth in commercial aviation.
INITIAL RUNWAY AND TERMINAL
Phase 1
1 runway
10 Million Passengers/year
TERMINAL EXPANSION
Phase 2
1 runway
10-20 Million Passengers/year
TERMINAL EXPANSION
Phase 2B
1 runway
20-32 Million Passengers/year
NEW RUNWAY AND ADDITIONAL TERMINAL
Phase 3
2 runways
32-55 Million Passengers/year
ADDITIONAL SATELLITE TERMINALS
Phase 4
2 runways
55-75 Million Passengers/year
NEW RUNWAY AND ADDITIONAL SATELLITE TERMINALS
Phase 5
3 runways
75-100 Million Passengers/year
PEOPLE AND NATURE
Fauna - nature
Location and layout responsive to environmental criteria and protected remote areas
Noise
Small population affected by noise
Future sustainable aviation
Sustainable fuel, electric, hydrogen
Transparency
Proactive sharing with NGOs and environmental organisations
EMISSIONS
ICAO - International Civil Aviation ORG
2050 - Reduce emissions by 50% in relation to 2005 levels
EU Aviation Green Deal: 60% reduction in emissions by 2050
