Beja: Coronavirus "converts" in Terminal car from Lisbon airport.
Lack of aircraft parking space, because of the pandemic Coronavirus, “converts” Civil Terminal as “option” from Lisbon airport.
The airline TAP Air Portugal and Venezuela Star chose the Civil Aviation Terminal Beja (TCBeja), to park four aircraft, three of which the Portuguese flag, to make room at Lisbon Airport, compared to uncertainties in the COVID-19.
One of TAP aircraft parked in TCBeja board is A330neo, baptized with the CS-TUI name Afonso Henriques, the 100th aircraft of the Portuguese airline, whose first official flight took place in 13 August 2019, connecting Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, Galeao Airport.
In addition to the aircraft of TAP and Star, They are also planes Hi Fly, which has its base in the TCBeja parking and maintenance, where to is no longer the Airbus A380, the largest aircraft in the world passengers was chartered by the Government of France to remove citizens from various countries of Europe, including Portuguese, in Cinha and Vietnam, when "broke" the coronavirus of the crisis in the first Asian countries.
In addition to the regular use of the Hi Fly, in 24 May 2014, the TCBeja was used as a "parking lot" for many aircraft from Madrid, with Real fans and Athletic, who attended the final of the Champions League which is played in Lisbon and whose aircraft were "diverted" to the Alentejo infrastructure.
In 2019, Sporting and for two times and Benfica by a, used the Civil Terminal on his return and played abroad games. The Beja airport, results from the civil use of air base 11 and cost 33 million, and began operating the 13 April 2011, a flight between Beja and Cape Verde.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
