Aviation

The Portuguese government’s Council of Ministers has given the green light to the Terms of Sale prospect that dictate the terms and conditions of the 49.9% sale of State-owned airline TAP to [...]

The official receivers for Siavilo – formerly TAP SGPS – has asked Lisbon’s commercial court (Tribunal Judicial da Comarca de Lisboa) to reserve the largest audition room in the court [...]

Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has ratified a decree-law that will pave the way for the part-privatisation of Portugal’s State-run airline TAP. On the President of the Republic’s [...]

The large international airline groups looking to acquire a minority share in Portugal’s airline TAP seem to be showing caution in advancing according to the business daily Negócios. IAG, [...]

Works aimed at improving the operability of Lisbon’s Humberto Delgado Airport which had begun at the start of the year are proceeding apace. The project, headed by ANA – Aeroportos de [...]

Menzies baggage handlers have scheduled four-day strikes at Lisbon airport over all weekends throughout August. A situation only made worse on Saturday as a bomb hoax, which together with the [...]

TAP SA requested that the insolvency of Siavilo, formerly TAP SGPS, to be decided urgently at a court of justice on July 10 after informing the government of the same decision.   Currently, as [...]

The Regional Government of the Azores (PSD/CDS-PP/PPM) admitted on Thursday that the privatisation process of Azores Airlines – a SATA Group company – could be completed by September [...]

The future of TAP is back on the agenda in Portugal’s parliament this week as the airline’s part-privatization kicks off. Portugal’s Minister of Infrastructures, Miguel Pinto Luz, told MPs that [...]

In a bid to maximise the price and attractiveness of TAP, 49% of which is to be put up for sale to large airline conglomerations next year, the Portuguese government is to provide €500 million in [...]