TAP Portugal carried more than 1mln Italian passengers in 2023
In 2023, TAP carried a total of 15.9 million passengers, 2.1 million more than the previous year, equivalent [...]
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In 2023, TAP carried a total of 15.9 million passengers, 2.1 million more than the previous year, equivalent to a growth of 15.2%. On its six Italian routes, the carrier surpassed the 1 million passenger threshold with more than 1.1 million passengers carried, registering an increase of 31.8% over 2022. This means that for every 15 passengers on board the Portuguese flag carrier, one holds an Italian passport.
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All segments of TAP's network showed growth over 2022. However, compared to 2019, the last full year before the pandemic, TAP has not yet fully recovered the traffic levels it held on routes in mainland Portugal, Europe, and Africa, registering, in terms of total numbers, -7 % compared to the total number of passengers carried in 2019, before the pandemic.
It is important to note that the restructuring plan defined by the European Commission. and to which TAP will be subject until 2025 require it to operate fewer aircraft and fewer slots at Lisbon Airport than in 2019.
Globally, the load factor of TAP flights was 80.8%, 0.8 percentage points (p.p.) higher than in 2022 and already up 0.7% p.p. compared to 2019, the last pre-pandemic year. RPK (Revenue Passenger Kilometer, an indicator of aviation productivity) is up 16% over 2022 and 1.4% over 2019. TAP's performance on all long-haul routes records a total of 4.6 million passengers carried, which is 15.1% more than in 2022, and 9.8% more than in 2019.
The business cabin of TAP's A330
On the routes of the United States and Canada TAP carried 1.46 million passengers, 18.4% more than in 2022 and 39.5% more than in 2019. On routes to Brazil, the total number of passengers carried was over 1.9 million, 20.3% more than in 2022 and 8.4% more than in 2019. On routes to the autonomous regions of the Azores and Madeira, TAP carried 1.5 million passengers last year, which is 13.2% more than in 2022 and 5.7% more than in 2019.
