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TAP Portugal is the flag carrier of Portugal headquartered at Lisbon Portela Airport which is also TAP Portugal's hub airport. The destinations which TAP Portugal fly to and from include Lisbon, Luanda, Recife, Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, Funchal, Casablanca, Faro, Sao Paulo, Fortaleza, Algiers, Amsterdam, A Coruna, Accra, Belem, Belo Horizonte, Asturias, Dakar, Dusseldorf, Faro, Copenhagen and many others. TAP is a member of Star Alliance and operates 2,000 flights a week to 88 destinations in 38 countries across the world.

TAP has codeshare agreements with several carriers including Aegean Airlines, airBaltic, Air Canada, Air China, Air New Zealand, Emirates, Ethiad Airways, Avianca, LOT Polish Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Thai Airways, Turkish Airlines, Ukraine International and United Airlines. 

TAP Portugal operates a loyalty programme called Victoria to reward regular travellers. Victoria clients can enjoy many benefits when travelling with TAP, in the Star Alliance netowrk and with TAP's other partner airlines. Passengers are rewarded as miles are points you can win, accumulate and then use an alternative currency to purchase flights. 

TAP Portugal entitles its passengers in Economy Class 1 piece of hand baggage of up to 8kg and for Executive Class 2 pieces with a total combined weight of 16kg. Gold Victoria Members or Star Alliance Gold Member are entitled to 1 additional piece of checked baggage with maximum weight of 32 kg and Silver members are entitled to additional 1 piece of up to 15 kg.  

In June 2015, TAP Portugal was semi-privatised and became majority-owned by the Atlantic Gateway Consortium, owner of Azul Airlines who purchased 61% of the carrier from the government of Portugal. TAP Portugal is currently owned by Portuguese state (50%), Atlantic Gateway Consortium (45%) and staff and employees of TAP (5%). TAP Portugal's fleet is wide-ranging and consists of many aircraft including Airbus A330-200, Embraer 145, Airbus A319-100 and Airbuss A320-200. In February 2017, TAP Portugal announced it had begun to restructure its business, starting with mutually agreed staff terminations in support and non-operation roles. The airline will, at the same time, hire an additional 200 operational staff in terms of flight and cabin crew, mechanics, and sales and training. As at December 6, 2016, TAP Portugal is 61% owned by Atlantic Gateway, with the Portuguese government holding a 39% share through its holding company Parpública. There is an agreement in place for the Portuguese government to increase its stake to 50%. Hainan Airlines has a 25% interest in TAP through its stake in Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras, which is owned by Atlantic Gateway.

In March 2017, TAP Portugal announced it had posted a full-year net profit of €34 million for 2016, marking its return to profitability. Revenue for the year fell €156 million to €2.2 billion, but operating costs dropped by €227 million to €2 billion, triggering the bottom line turnaround. The Portuguese flag carrier said the positive result was driven by “strong investment” from its new shareholders, Atlantic Gateway Group, including revamping of regional airline Portugalia to become of TAP Express, a complete renewal of its regional fleet and the creation of a shuttle service between Lisbon and Porto. During the year, TAP also upgraded the interiors of its Airbus fleet, added new routes to Boston and New York JFK and boosted frequencies to New York Newark, more than doubling its US flights. In 2016, TAP carried a record 11.7 million passengers, marking a 400,000 improvement on 2015, despite cutting available seats by 3%. 

In March 2017, TAP Portugal unveiled the first of seven retrofitted A330s. The 25 new fully-flat business class seats transform into a 1.93-metre long bed, and feature “individual reading lights, tables with storage space, supports for bottles, USB slots and individual electrical sockets”. In economy, seats have been recovered in a green and grey upholstery, and a new economy plus section has been created offering “more space and seats that recline further”. The airline already operates an A330 aircraft with retrofitted business class product on its routes from Lisbon to Boston and New York JFK, which launched last summer.

In March 2017, TAP Portugal announced it was investing more than $73 million in a new onboard cabin for the airline's A330 fleet. Seven A330s will be retrofitted by the end of the year. The first A330 to be completed, named João Gonçalves Zarco, has commenced flying between the U.S. and Lisbon this week. This A330 upgrade program represents TAP’s commitment to improving comfort and improving its onboard product for passengers in all classes, bringing the cabins into line with that of the A330neo, which will soon be joining the fleet. TAP’s proud Portuguese identity is recognizable through the aircraft interior, thanks to partnerships with Portuguese companies such as Almadesign, which selected the materials and developed the finishing, and with Couro Azul, which supplied the leather used in the Executive class seats. In Executive Class, the changes are even more pronounced, with 25 new fully-flat reclining chairs that are more than six feet long when fully reclined. TAP has powered up its new business class chairs to include USB slots and individual electrical sockets, connections for headphones, individual reading lights, tables with storage space, and supports for bottles. 

In March 2017, TAP Portugal announced that from July 2017 it plans to add service to Lome in Togo. TAP Portugal plans to operate 2 weekly Lisbon - Accra - Rome - Lisbon route and 2 weekly in opposite direction. An Airubus A320 aircraft will operate this route. 

In April 2017, TAP Portugal announced it had taken delivery of its maiden A330-300 following the arrival in Lisbon from Singapore via Dublin. They will collectively replace A330-200s CS-TOS and CS-TOT which are to be returned to lessor Deucalion Aviation Funds in due course. With the -300s addition and the removal of the two -200s, TAP's widebody fleet will consist of three A330-300s, fourteen A330-200s, and four A340-300s.

In April 2017, TAP Portugal announced it is set to commence commercial EMB-195 operations later this year. The Portuguese carrier is expected to take delivery of four aircraft of the type during the current half of year for onward placement with its Portugália Airlines unit. Operating under its TAP Express brand, the Embraer Regional Jets will be deployed on flights from Lyon St. Exupéry and Marseilles from May 18 onwards. Thereafter, according to Airline Route, services will include Dusseldorf, Toulouse Blagnac, Nantes, Marrakech, Bordeaux, Madrid Barajas, Barcelona El Prat, Nice, Las Palmas, Stuttgart Echterdingen, Manchester Int'l, Cologne/Bonn, Algiers, London Gatwick, Faro.

Airbus A319-100

Airbus A330-200

Airbus A320-200

Airbus A340-300

ATR 42-600

 
Embraer ERJ-145 

Lisbon Portela Airport 

HUB Airport

Lisbon Portela Airport is an international airport located in the city of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Lisbon Portela Airport is the main hub of TAP Portugal and its subsidiary Portugalia, a focus city airport for easyJet, Ryanair and SATA International. The airport has two runaways and can handle nearly 20 million passengers ever year. Other airlines which fly to and from Lisbon Portela Airport include Aer Lingus, Air Europa, Air Transat, easyJet, British Airlines, Emirates, Iberia, SATA International, TACV, Transaero Airlines, Turkish Airlines and Wizz Air.