Humberto Delgado (LIS, ICAO LPPT) serves Lisbon, Portugal and is a destination reached by travellers flying from across Africa. It is the based hub of TP. Our catalogue links 0 direct destinations out of LIS and 1 African origin into it, served by 2 carriers.
At a glance
1 catalogued corridor touch Lisbon (LIS / LPPT) in Portugal: 0 outbound and 1 inbound, flown by 2 carriers, with TP based here. 0 of those corridors carry a cached USD quote in our weekly fare cache; the rest are catalogued on schedule evidence alone. The mix runs 0 sectors under four hours, 0 of four to seven and 1 beyond seven.
| Attribute | Detail |
|---|---|
| IATA / ICAO | LIS / LPPT |
| City | Lisbon |
| Country | Portugal |
| Based hub carrier | TP |
| Direct destinations (catalogued) | 0 |
| Reached from (African origins) | 1 |
| Coordinates | 38.781, -9.136 |
The route mix at LIS splits into 0 short sectors under four hours, 0 medium sectors of four to seven hours and 1 long-haul sector beyond seven — a profile that tells you what the terminal is actually built around. 1 of the corridors here is flagged in our data as labour-migration or diaspora routes, where checked-baggage terms drive booking decisions more than schedule does.
Two codes, two uses. LIS is the IATA code you will see on a ticket, a baggage tag and a departure board, while LPPT is the ICAO code used in flight plans, NOTAMs and air-traffic filing. They are not interchangeable: IATA codes are reused across the world’s smaller fields and are the ones that cause mis-booking, which is why every corridor on this site is keyed on the pair of codes rather than a city name.
Airlines serving LIS
2 carriers appear on the LIS corridors covered here; for the 1 we hold details on, checked-baggage baselines are 23 kg. That list is built from the 1 corridors this site catalogues through LIS, so it is our coverage rather than the airport’s full published schedule.
These carriers operate the LIS corridors catalogued on this site. Humberto Delgado is the based hub of TP, which anchors most of its schedule and connecting bank.
| Airline | Alliance | Checked baggage | Hajj/Umrah charter |
|---|---|---|---|
| TP (TP) | — | — | No |
| TAAG Angola Airlines (DT) | - | 23 kg | No |
Diaspora and migrant-worker baggage uplift recorded against carriers here: TAAG Angola Airlines +12 kg. These are carrier promotions attached to nominated corridors and fare families — they do not follow you onto a partner’s codeshare segment, and the cheapest fare buckets are usually excluded. Confirm against your own booking class rather than the table.
One limit on this list. It is built from the corridors this site catalogues through LIS, so it is a view of the routes we cover rather than the airport’s full published schedule. A carrier serving Lisbon on a route outside our catalogue will not appear above. Where an alliance or baggage cell is blank we hold no recorded value — read that as unknown, not as zero.
Top routes into LIS
Luanda to Lisbon (LAD–LIS) heads the LIS list below, at about 14 flights a week on TP and DT.
The USD market-low column is the cheapest fare our weekly cache recorded on the corridor across all carriers.
| Route | Carriers | Freq/wk | Block (h) | Market low (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luanda (LAD) → Lisbon (LIS) | TP, DT | ~14 | ~9.0 | — |
Three corridors carry roughly 100% of the 14 weekly departures our catalogue records at LIS, which makes the airport two different places depending on which flight you hold. Dense routes absorb disruption within the day. Thin ones do not, and rebooking onto another airline needs an interline agreement rather than goodwill.
Block times across these corridors run from about 9.0 h to 9.0 h. That range is the practical reason a single connecting-time rule does not work at LIS: a short regional inbound and a long-haul outbound have very different delay profiles, and a tight self-built connection between them is where most missed onward flights on this site’s corridors happen. On separate tickets there is no protection at all.
Corridors and typical fares from LIS
0 of the 1 LIS corridors carry a cached USD quote, so most pricing here is planning-band rather than observed. Fares are quoted in USD across the whole site so corridors from different African markets stay comparable. Sector length drives the shape: 0 run under four hours, 0 four to seven and 1 beyond seven.
Most LIS corridors here serve diaspora and long-haul family travellers. The mix is 1 long-haul route (over 7 h). 1 are labour-migration or diaspora corridors where extra-baggage allowances matter. As rough planning ranges (editorial estimates, not observed fares): intra-Africa $400–900, Gulf hubs $500–1,200, long-haul $800–2,200; each per-route guide below shows the cached fare with the date it was found.
The shape of the fare curve follows the sector length. The 0 short corridors under four hours from LIS price like regional traffic and move mostly with the day of the week; the 1 long-haul corridor beyond seven hours move with season and school holidays, and can double between the cheapest and dearest month in our own cache. Mixing the two on one average would be meaningless, which is why every corridor page carries its own floor.
Direct flights to LIS — 1 route
1 catalogued route is listed below for LIS, reaching 1 country, led by Angola. Our catalogue records 0 departure and 1 arrival corridor at LIS, each linking to a corridor guide with carriers, frequency, block time and any cached fare. The list is this site’s catalogue, not the airport’s timetable.
Each link opens a corridor guide rather than a booking form: carriers, an estimated weekly frequency, scheduled block time, the great-circle distance used that sets an EU261 or UK261 band where either applies, and whatever the fare cache holds. That is deliberate — the useful decision on a corridor is usually which routing and which carrier, and only then which price.
What you are looking at is our coverage of Lisbon, not its published schedule. Corridors enter the catalogue on audience relevance — diaspora, pilgrimage, intra-Africa and business demand — which means a seasonal or thin regional service can operate here without appearing above. Absence from this list is an editorial boundary, not a claim that a route does not exist.
Hub airlines based at LIS
1 carrier bases an operation at Lisbon (LIS): TP (TP), on 1 catalogued corridor. A based carrier is where the airport’s recovery capacity lives. Across the 1 corridors catalogued at LIS, a based operation is what makes a same-day recovery realistic; an outstation carrier usually has one rotation and no local engineering.
TP
Hub status is operational, not marketing. A carrier that bases aircraft and crew at LIS builds connecting banks around it, holds spare capacity there, and can usually re-crew or swap metal the same day. The same airline at an outstation typically has one rotation and no local engineering, so an identical technical fault produces a two-hour delay at the hub and an overnight at the outstation.
It also shapes price. The based carrier usually sets the fare level on corridors out of Lisbon and competitors price against it, which is why a hub airport is rarely the cheapest place to originate on its own home routes. Where our cache shows an unusually low floor at LIS, it is normally a competing carrier buying share rather than the hub carrier discounting.
FAQ
5 questions below answer what travellers ask most often about this page’s subject, drawn from the same route, carrier, airport and fare data as everything above. Where a figure is missing from our data, the answer says so rather than estimating.
How is LIS airport connected? LIS (Lisbon) is reachable on 1 direct route in our catalogue — see the full route list above.
What are the IATA and ICAO codes for LIS airport? The IATA code is LIS and the ICAO code is LPPT. The airport serves Lisbon, Portugal.
Which airlines are based at LIS? Hub carriers at LIS: TP.
How can I check fares and schedules for routes through LIS? Each route in the list above links to a guide with live USD fares, weekly frequency and the airlines that operate it.
Which airlines fly from LIS? Carriers on LIS corridors catalogued here: TP, TAAG Angola Airlines. See the airlines table above for alliance and baggage.
How current are these numbers? Routes, carriers and airports are this site’s own reference data, revised from time to time; fares come from a weekly snapshot of Travelpayouts cached fares, with a weekly history log behind it. Each page states its own last-updated date.
Related
- Flights to Portugal — country landing page: 1 catalogued corridor from African airports, carriers, visa row and the USD fare floor we have on file.
Corridor pages carry the per-route detail — carriers, weekly frequency, scheduled block time, great-circle distance and whatever the fare cache holds. Airport pages carry the full catalogued route list at that field, the based hub carriers and the compensation regime of the country it sits in. Carrier pages carry the baggage baseline, alliance and the network as this catalogue records it.