TAP

The CEO of Portuguese airline TAP says the European Entry/Exit System poses one of the greatest challenges to the company’s operation at Portugal’s airports and could lead to failures to keep [...]

TAP has now sent the signed contract for the sale of its 49.9% stake in SPdH — Serviços Portugueses de Handling (formerly Groundforce) to Menzies Aviation, to the Court of Auditors. According to [...]

The CEO of Lufthansa, Carsten Spohr, reiterated the company’s interest in purchasing a significant share of Portugal’s national carrier TAP Air Portugal yesterday. “We have already expressed our [...]

The Union of Civil Aviation Pilots of Portugal (SPAC) has warned Portugal’s government of the risk of job losses should Lufthansa win the part-privatisation bid for the airline. In a letter sent [...]

TAP is more exposed to rising fuel prices than several European counterparts, with an average coverage of 40% for 2026, lower than that observed in groups such as Air France-KLM, Lufthansa and [...]

TAP, like most airlines, is sensitive to fluctuations in fuel prices. For this reason, it has implemented hedging strategies, and this year it decided to reinforce this “insurance.” [...]

Lufthansa will not change its price offer after the government decided to maintain the schedule defined at the start of the TAP privatization process. With the conflict in the Middle East still [...]

The Brazilian airline Azul, which is attempting to claw back a €188 million loan in the form of a bond given to TAP a decade ago, is using the legal argument that the Portuguese airline’s [...]

The aviation industry is facing the biggest crisis since the Covid-19 pandemic, due to the rise in jet fuel costs, directly driven by the conflict in the Middle East. The price of a barrel of [...]

Portugal’s Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, made clear this week that the part-privatisation of State airline TAP will not go ahead if the airline group that wins the bid fails to invest in all [...]