First it was Ryanair’s Michael O’ Leary who sharply criticised the EU’s decision to consider allowing the Portuguese State to bail out TAP with €2Bn of tax payer funding. Now the director of [...]

Portugal’s national carrier TAP is to review its contract with the airline JetBlue which is owned by David Neeleman. The contract was signed when the Brazilian entrepreneur was TAP’s main private [...]

The president of the Porto Trade Association has called on the setting up of a new airline which will reflect the growing importance of Porto and the North and better serve the region’s business [...]

The Irish low-cost airline Ryanair says it will contest the financial aspect of a top-to-bottom restructuring plan for Portgual’s national carrier TAP in response to a European Commission [...]

The deadline for national carrier TAP to repay the Portuguese State a €1.2Bn loan which expired today, has now been extended until the end of the year. The loan had been granted on the back of a [...]

The Portuguese national carrier TAP recorded losses of €493.1 million in the first half of 2021 – an like-for-like improvement of €88.8 million. This was according to the airline’s results [...]

The Irish low-cost airline Ryanair announced on Tuesday that it would launch 26 new routes from Lisbon, Porto and Faro to destinations like Malta, Palermo and Agadir from November. It will be the [...]

Portugal’s national carrier TAP has accepted to abandon around a dozen flight slots at Lisbon international airport. It has done so at the insistence of the government in order to meet new [...]

The International ratings agency Standard & Poor has warned this week that Portugal’s airline is running the risk of running out of cash with which to operate its flights. But while the [...]

The United States has once again put Portugal on its list of countries to where it is inadvisable to travel. It has placed Portugal on the “very high risk” category because of the rising numbers [...]