Aviation

The German airline group Lufthansa has delivered its Manifestation of Interest in buying up to 45% of national carrier TAP to Portuguese State companies holding Parpública just two days shy of [...]

Portugal’s Civil Aviation Pilots Union (SPAC) has approved a privatisation agreement with the consortium Newtour/MS Aviation by 75% of the votes. “Pilots have done everything within their reach [...]

Airline group Air France-KLM is to formally make a Manifestation of Interest in buying a sizable share in Portugal’s airline TAP after having studied the Terms of Sale. The news comes straight [...]

The Brazilian airline Azul, which is owned by airline mogul David Neeleman, has called for a top-down investigation into the now defunct shell company TAP SGPS to work out why the company is [...]

Text: Chris Graeme; Photo: ANA Reports have to been coming in from travellers flying out of Lisbon to non-Schengen destinations that queues and waiting times at passport control are so long that [...]

The CEO of TAP, Luís Rodrigues, says the times of the airline standing “proudly alone” are over and “soon we’ll be integrated into an aviation giant”. Luís Rodrigues made his comments at the [...]

Airline conglomerate IAG believes its offer for TAP is more attractive than that of Lufthansa and Air France-KLM. According to an interview by EL Pais with Luís Gallego, CEO of IAG (British [...]

The airline consortium Air France-KLM has delivered its interest to buy a share in TAP to the Portuguese public holding that controls public companies, Parpública, but investment of 49% in the [...]

The Terms of Sale to guide aviation investors in the 49.9% sale of Portugal’s national carrier TAP have been made public. The brochure has 11 terms that any airline group bidding for the [...]

The Portuguese construction giants Teixeira Duarte and Ferreira Construção have formed a consortium to build the new Lufthansa Technik aircraft maintenance unit in Santa Maria da Feira’s Lusopark [...]