Aviation

A strike by 81.2% of Groundforce baggage handlers who say they have not received their summer bonus salary caused mayhem at Portugal’s largest airport over the weekend. Over 650 flights to [...]

The British Government had good news for UK holidaymakers wanting to head off to the Algarve sun this summer. Quarantine will no longer be required for Brits taking holidays in Portugal, [...]

Germany has once again put Portugal on its green list of safe countries to travel to without requiring mandatory quarantine measures on return. The German authorities had removed Portugal’s safe [...]

Air France is to increase the number of seats to Portugal this summer by around 25% on 2019. It will do the same for Greece, Spain and Italy as priority leisure destinations for the airline in [...]

The baggage handling company Swissport has been in Lisbon to negotiate a possible buyout of Groundforce. Millionaire Alfredo Casimiro who owns a significant share in the Portuguese baggage [...]

Portuguese airlineTAP has a new chairman and it is not Miguel Frasquilho as had been expected. According to ECO online the new chairman of the board will be Manuel Beja (pictured) who has a wide [...]

A French high-flying executive has been tipped as the next CEO for Portuguese airline TAP. Christine Ourmières-Widener is said to be the personal favourite of Portugal’s minister of [...]

Around 10,000 British citizens left Faro airport on Saturday to get home in time for Tuesday’s deadline when Portugal is taken off the UK’s green list. The President of Algarve Tourism, João [...]

TAP recorded losses of €365 million for the first three months of the year because of the Europe-wide lockdown. €109.8 million of the net loss result had to do with net exchange differences. [...]

Portugal’s minster for infrastructures, Pedro Nuno Santos, has sent a clear message to low-cost airline Ryanair that the “government does not accept interference or lessons” from an overseas [...]