TAP to increase prices for international flights, due to ‘green fuel’
TAP has admitted that it will start charging passengers “an environmental levy”, which will increase the price of tickets for international flights, from January. The objective is to cover “the
Hamsters ‘running amok’ ground TAP plane in Azores
Airbus 320 ‘stranded’ as 132 hamsters have to be recaptured A TAP Airbus 320 was unable to take off from Ponta Delgada airport in the Azores for four days because of
TAP reprivatization to kick off in 2025 – government
Portugal’s minister of infrastructure and housing, Miguel Pinto Luz, has said in parliament today that the reprivatisation of TAP will be going ahead next year – adding that the airline’s
TAP will shrink if Lufthansa buys it, warns Ryanair boss
Germans good at “extracting maximum price from people”, says Eddie Wilson Ryanair CEO, Eddie Wilson has warned that every airline that Lufthansa buys will be smaller in a few years
Attorney General’s Office confirms TAP privatisation report in hands of criminal investigators
Unholy row blows up (again) over TAP privatisation An unholy row has blown up for the nth time over the last-minute privatisation of flagship airline TAP. The deal was done
PS Socialists seize on new report suggesting irregularities in TAP’s 2015 privatisation
A new report by audit authority IGF casts further doubts over the regularity of TAP’s privatisation deal – approved by the breath-takingly short lived PSD government of 2015. As a
Lufthansa wants 20% stake in TAP
The government met yesterday with Germna airline Lufthansa’s executive president Carsten Spohr who is “interested in buying 20% of TAP”. The meeting, involving finance minister Joaquim Miranda Sarmento and Infrastructures
Flag carrier TAP ends first half of year with €400,000 profit
Profit down 98.3% year-on-year Portugal’s ‘flag carrier airline’ TAP (long destined for reprivatisation) ended the first half this year with a positive net profit of €400,000 – down from €22.9
TAP privatisation: “There will be news in September”
“Our strategy is to focus flights on the West (US, Canada and Latin America)” – TAP boss Luís Rodrigues The privatisation process for state-owned Portuguese airline TAP will be relaunched
TAP Airbus forced to make emergency landing in Porto
Loses altitude – but no damage or injuries reported The ‘official story’ today about a TAP Airbus 320 forced to make an emergency landing at Porto’s Francisco Sá Carneiro airport