TAP

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 [...]

The Brazilian airline Azul has filed a lawsuit against the Portuguese airline TAP, demanding payment of around €189 million. This case has arisen because of the non-payment of a bond loan signed [...]

The airline three groups running for the purchase of Portuguese airline TAP must present non-binding proposals by April 2 but they want guarantees on their side, especially regarding the value [...]

The Lufthansa group says it is committed to winning a competition launched by the Portuguese State which is selling national airline TAP and is offering several sweeteners or offsets to [...]

A former CEO of TAP Air Portugal says that customs taxes and tariffs have caused more disruptions for airlines than the global conflicts over the past year. Brazilian executive Antonoaldo Neves, [...]

Lisbon’s Court of Appeal has confirmed that a lawsuit filed by the former TAP CEO Christine Ourmières-Widener, against the airline over unfair dismissal will be heard in a civil court, rejecting [...]

The former CEO of TAP, Christine Ourmières Widener was dismissed from her job because former Prime Minister, António Costa’s “political survival” was at stake she alleges. She has used the phone [...]

Following the January 2 deadline to present intentions to compete in the TAP part-privatisation race, Europe’s three largest airline groups Air France-KLM, IAG and Lufthansa now have April 2 to [...]

Lufthansa, IAG and Air France-KLM will pass to the second round in the TAP part-privatisation plan, delivering non-binding bids for the Portuguese national carrier at the end of this week. [...]

Unions representing SPdH/Menzies workers (formerly Groundforce) have called off a strike scheduled for December 31 after signing government-backed agreements with the company’s shareholders. In a [...]