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Portuguese airline TAP is to stop routes in and out of London City airport “because of Brexit”. The airline, still partly owned by the government, has also decided to suspend flights to ‘certain [...]

Airbus has admitted that its new 330neo models- snapped up by TAP for long-haul flights – ‘have a problem’. More to the point, the ‘green’ planes showcased for being “more efficient and [...]

An investigation has opened into the unusually high number of cases of TAP flight crews and even passengers reporting that they have started to feel very unwell on long-haul flights in the [...]

Another much-loved pet has boarded a TAP flight and been loaded into the hold only to emerge dead. Heartbroken Brazilian owner Flaviany Gondim has written over social media: “TAP has no respect [...]

National airline TAP is taking on low cost rivals Ryanair and Easyjet by dropping short- and long-haul prices from its base at Lisbon airport by an average of 34%. The new ‘discount service’ will [...]

A TAP flight carrying 149 passengers from Lisbon to Copenhagen was intercepted by a French fighter plane over Nantes on Friday “due to its failure to respond to messages from air traffic [...]

All flights between Lisbon and Brussels have been cancelled today in the wake of a new round of terror attacks in the Belgian capital that have killed and seriously injured dozens of people. Just [...]

Portuguese airlines – SATA and TAP – have been rated among the worst in the industry by online legal service and mobile app AirHelp. Rating “the saints and sinners of the global airline [...]

Following the government’s so-called wrestling back of TAP from private ‘control’, criticisms are coming in from all quarters. There is even the new attack that far from recovering State control, [...]

A new controversy has emerged as TAP’s privatisation is reversed. Diogo de Lacerda Machado – a businessman named as one of the government’s appointments to TAP’s new board – is [...]