Aviation

Plans for Lisbon’s new international airport have stalled because of a mixture of incompetence and a lack of political will from political parties to come together and make it happen. This is the [...]

TAP will lose 12 slots at Lisbon’s Humberto Delgado International Airport, double the number contained in the original offer, but less than the 20 feared. However, the airline, which has to [...]

Both August and September were a disaster for national airline TAP in terms of passenger numbers flying to and from Porto. Not only were there less passengers, down 70% overall from January to [...]

The company which manages Portugal’s airports, ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal (Vinci Group) has warned that if the latest plan to build an airport at Montijo is rejected by local authorities, [...]

TAP is likely to retain its status as a hub for South America, Europe and Africa but faces the number of slots and the times it blocks those slots reduced following pressure from low-cost [...]

The president of euroAtlantic airways, a small schedule and non-Schedule Portuguese International Airline, believes that the EU Commission will not accept TAP’s restructuring plan in its present [...]

The Government is still waiting for the green light from Brussels to inject around €536 million of capital into the national carrier TAP that was promised for 2021. It is authorisation for the [...]

Passenger numbers at Portuguese airports have risen 2.3% like-for-like on 2020 to 15.2 million to September according to Vinci which owns ANA-Aeroportos de Portugal. However, the group revealed [...]

The Ministries of Finance and Economy, Housing and Infrastructure announced on Friday that that TAP CFO João Weber Gameiro has tendered his resignation. Under applicable laws in Portugal, it [...]

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 [...]