Portugal’s airline TAP is back to 2019 levels in terms of flight operations but is facing a summer of discontent as pilot unions threaten strikes. Unions representing the airline’s pilots are [...]
Unions representing pilots at Portugal’s national airline carrier TAP Portugal are threatening to strike over a series of pay cuts which the airline says it vital for its survival and viability. [...]
Portugal’s airline TAP is to reduce the cuts to its pilots’ salaries by around 10%. The company has decided to update the minimum guaranteed salary of €1,330 to €1,410, backdating it to January, [...]
The Portuguese Government, through its tourism bureau Turismo de Portugal, appears to have backtracked on statements said to have been made by its president that Portugal’s northern region should [...]
In the first week of April, TAP used only 1,868 of the 2,520 slots it has available to fly, leaving around 700 slots unused (or 100 empty per day). It cancelled 40 flights and yet left 100 slots [...]
Portugal’s state-owned airline TAP has posted a record €1.599,1Bn loss for 2021. The loss which exceeded the €1.230Bn in 2020 was nevertheless below the €1.750Bn factored in for the airline’s [...]
The legal director of Portugal’s state-owned airline TAP, Stéphanie Silva has resigned her post. The wife of ex-Lisbon mayor and newly appointed finance minister Fernando Medina, had headed the [...]
Ryanair has announced that it will appeal against a decision by the European Commission to allow TAP to relinquish just 18 takeoff and landing slots at Lisbon’s Humberto Delgado [...]
Ryanair, the Portuguese charter airline euroAtlantic Airways, and the Porto Commercial Association all tried to get the European Directorate-General of Competition to reject TAP’s restructuring [...]
A TAP Portugal executive has handed in her notice at the airline to “pursue new projects”. Alexandra Reis says she has decided to “close this chapter of my professional career and embrace fresh [...]
