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TAP Air Portugal
- IATA/ICAO Code:
- TP/TAP
- Airline Sort:
- Full Service Service
- Hub(s):
- Lisbon Airport
- Yr Based:
- 1945
- Alliance:
- Star Alliance
- CEO:
- Christine Ourmières-Widener
- Nation:
- Portugal
TAP Air Portugal reopened its Premium Lounge at Lisbon’s Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS) on December 18th, with a renovation that hopes to offer passengers with a refreshed, comfy and enjoyable setting within the new 850m2 (9150ft) area.
Picture: TAP Air Portugal
The most recent renovation of the lounge ensures that 320 passengers can sit back and chill out in expanded seating areas with a spread of crops and open areas with contemporary, inviting colours. Funding by TAP is one more step within the rejuvenation of the airline, which is focussed on enhancing the client’s expertise.
Entry to the lounge is out there for TAP’s Miles&Go Gold and Star Alliance Gold members plus passengers flying in enterprise class on Star Alliance-operated flights.
Portuguese aptitude on provide
Passengers passing by way of the lounge will take pleasure in a spread of cold and warm dishes with Portuguese aptitude. As anticipated the lounge will cater to all dietary necessities with a collection of gluten-free, lactose-free, vegetarian, and vegan choices. Scorching dishes at the moment are additionally again on the menu, after a brief break in the course of the renovation.
Picture: TAP Air Portugal
TAP continues to be the bridge to Brazil
TAP Air Portugal has by far essentially the most connections to Brazil from Europe, restoring its full pre-pandemic route map to the South American nation by April this 12 months.
Connecting Europe to Brazil, TAP operates to 11 cities from Lisbon, flying to São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belém, Belo Horizonte, BrasÃlia, Fortaleza, Natal, Maceió, Porto Alegre, Recife, and Salvador. The airline additionally connects Porto’s Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO) with São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Over the European summer time season, TAP Air Portugal carried half one million passengers between Brazil and Portugal, which counts for 97% of all passengers between Brazil and Europe.
The airline operates these routes utilizing its vary of Airbus A321neo, A330-200, and A330-900 plane.
An all-Airbus fleet
Presently, the airline boasts a fleet of 76 lively plane, with ten extra on order. The airline operates a spread of:
- 5 Airbus A319-100
- 15 Airbus A320-200
- 11 Airbus A320-neo, with an additional 4 on order
- Three Airbus A321-200
- Ten Airbus A321LR, with an additional two on order
- Ten Airbus A321neo, with an additional two on order
- Three Airbus A330-200
- 19 Airbus A330-900, with an additional two on order
TAP Air Portugal was the launch buyer of the A330neo, of which ten had been immediately ordered, and the remainder had been leased.
Along with these plane, the airline does have constitution operations operated by White Airways, which operates six ATR72s, and Portugália, which operates for the TAP Specific, the place Embraer E190s and E195s join regional and area of interest routes.
