Airlines

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 [...]

The airline group SATA’s public transport air service between mainland Portugal and the islands of the Azores – subsidised for local residents – is losing around €12 million per [...]

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, [...]

Portugal’s airports management concession company ANA – a subsidiary of France’s VINCI Airports – enjoyed record revenues of around €1.4Bn in 2025, increasing the company’s [...]

Straight-talking Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary has received a back-handed rebuttal from Portugal’s Minister of Infrastructures Miguel Pinto Luz after he said that Portugal’s government were [...]

The CEO of Ryanair, Michael O’Leary, has accused Portugal’s government of limiting the growth capacity of Lisbon’s Humberto Delgado Airport to protect TAP during its privatisation process. [...]

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 [...]

The number of passengers passing through Portugal’s airports was up 5% in November like-for-like on 2024 to 5 million. This is according to Portugal’s National Statistics Institute (INE) which [...]

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. [...]