TAP

The curse of Portugal’s publicly owned airline TAP has returned to claim yet another victim – João Galamba, the Minister of Infrastructure who lasted just four months in the job. The [...]

The Portuguese Government hopes to start the ball rolling for the sale of national airline TAP before the end of the summer. The Council of Ministers have given a mandate to Parpública – [...]

Top brass members of TAP may have received around €1.2 million in bonuses and €19 million in salaries through the provision of services to Atlantic Gateway at the time that Brazilian-American [...]

The US ratings agency Moody’s has raised the rating of Portuguese State-run airline TAP in the wake of its CEO Christine Ourmières-Widener having returned the airline from a loss to a [...]

The CEO of TAP, Christine Ourmières-Widener said at a hearing on Tuesday that she was “just a scapegoat” over the €500,000 compensation case involving former director Alexandra Reis, and has [...]

Portugal’s national carrier TAP has posted a profit of €65.6 million and revenues of €3.5Bn for 2022; a record result five years after the airline was taken back into state control. TAP’s [...]

An ex-legal director of TAP who joined the airline in May 2018 on a salary of €9,500 a month, was awarded a bonus of €19,570 in 2019; a year in which the company posted a €118 million loss. [...]

After sprucing up its fleet of aircraft with 53 new Airbus NEO planes, the national carrier is about to spice up its on-board menus. The company which is never far from the headlines has [...]

Brazilian-American airline mogul David Neeleman, who is at the centre of a controversy over the way he financed a leasing deal for 53 Airbus aircraft when he was the main shareholder of TAP, has [...]

The decision to ask a former TAP director to hand back most of a €500,000 ‘Golden Handshake’ and which was followed by the dismissal of its CEO, could be about to cost the company even dearer. [...]