Tap Air Portugal grows in Italy: flurry of flights to Rome and Florence in 2024
We will have to wait until at least the end of the year to understand the privatization path that will bring Tap Air Portugal's dowry to [...]
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We will have to wait until at least the end of the year to figure out the privatization path that will bring Tap Air Portugal dowry to one of Europe's three major groups (Lufthansa, Iag and Air France-Klm, with the latter in pole position) strengthening European air transport consolidations.
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In the meantime, however, the Portuguese airline has already announced its plans for summer 2024, which include growth important about Italy And the expansion of intercontinental routes. to Brazil.
Italy land of conquest?
In early September, in fact, airlines usually begin to communicate and launch flights for the following summer and, in many cases, this period becomes one of the juiciest for buy tickets for next year.
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Just for summer 2024, therefore, Italy is considered by Tap to be the main European market where to grow with More flights loaded than in past years.
It will be uncertainty about the future of Ita Airways, will it be the tricolor airline's poverty of direct connections to South America, or perhaps the onslaught of Star Alliance (an alliance afferent to Tap and Lufthansa) to what was a Skyteam dominance (an alliance that Ita only temporarily inherited from Alitalia and is led by Delta, Air France, and KLM).
The fact of the matter is that in Tap's network, Rome Fiumicino will see a significant increase, with the addition of a daily flight from Lisbon, bringing the offer to five daily operations to and from the capital, totaling 35 weekly connections in summer.
Also the Lisbon-Florence will grow with weekly frequencies increasing from eight to ten.
The expansion on Brazil
On intercontinental flights, however, Tap plans to expand into Brazil, with an increase of eleven weekly frequencies, reaching a total of 91 weekly departures from Portugal.
The Portuguese airline is already a leader-thanks to its geographic location-on Europe-Brazil routes and offers free stopover in Lisbon to passengers traveling to and from the Americas.
Flights on Recife will have three more weekly frequencies, increasing from seven to 10; those on Rio de Janeiro will increase from ten to twelve flights. Other cities, such as São Paulo, Belém, Brasília, Natal/Maceio, Porto Alegre and Salvador will all benefit from a additional weekly flight.
More frequencies for North America
Finally, also on the long haul, Tap will step up its operations in Africa and North America. In Maputo, Mozambique, service will be expanded to four weekly flights from the current three.
North America, Toronto will see an increase to 13 flights weekly, while San Francisco will increase from five to six flights during the summer peak.
