Flying from Porto or Faro is set to rise five times faster than Lisbon in 2027
ANA has put a 2027 tariff proposal to the airlines: 0.67% more in Lisbon, worth roughly ten cents a passenger, against average rises of 3.77% in Porto and 3.79% in Faro. The regulator still has to approve it.
The regulated charges paid to use Lisbon, Porto and Faro airports are set to rise from 1 January 2027. The proposal comes from ANA, has been put to the airlines, and still has to clear the national civil aviation authority, ANAC, before it means anything.
What makes it worth reading is the gap between the three. In Lisbon, once the concession contract’s estimate-correction mechanisms are applied, the proposed increase is 0.67% on 2026, roughly ten cents per passenger. In Porto the proposed average rise reaches 3.77%, and in Faro 3.79%.
The structure changes too, not just the number
ANA also wants to redraw how the charges are built. On passenger processing, several components that currently appear separately would be folded into a single passenger boarding support services charge. There are proposed changes to landing and aircraft parking charges as well.
These are billed to airlines rather than to you at the check-in desk. But they feed the cost per seat each carrier works out when deciding where to base aircraft and what to charge for a ticket, which is why any proposed rise gets this much noise from the operators.
The backdrop
Portuguese airports have come off consecutive years of record passenger traffic, with Lisbon running close to the limit of what its runways and stands can absorb. The network is not growing evenly, though: Ryanair has already announced fewer winter flights in Portugal, an adjustment the airline pinned on airport costs.
The consultation follows Decree-Law 254/2012, as amended by Decree-Law 108/2013, and ends with a decision from ANAC, the civil aviation regulator. Until that lands, the 2026 table of regulated charges ANA publishes is still the one in force, landing, passenger and parking charges included. Until then the only settled thing is the proposal itself. If it survives intact, flying out of Porto and Faro gets proportionally dearer than flying out of Lisbon, which inverts what most passengers assume about which Portuguese airport is the expensive one.
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