THE TAP will start flying to Toronto, Canada, Las Palmas and Alicante, in Spain, Stuttgart in Germany, Bucharest in Romania, and Budapest, Hungary, from June 10, announced this Tuesday the president, Fernando Pinto.
at A meeting with journalists, Fernando Pinto announced six of the 11 new routes that had been advanced for 2017, being five with destination to Europe and one to Canada, with the launch of target in Toronto, you have five frequencies weekly.
The new destinations in Spain, Las Palmas and Alicante, will have one daily flight, and Stuttgart in Germany, will have two daily flights. To Bucharest, in Romania, and Budapest, in Hungary, the TAP will start the connections to the 01 of July, with six frequencies a week to the first target and seven frequencies to the second.
In October, Fernando Pinto had announced the launch of 11 new routes in 2017, of which seven are in Europe, three in Africa and one in North America.
This Tuesday, in a meeting with journalists in Lisbon, the president of TAP, has announced that the company will strengthen the operation to Madrid (from Porto), Manchester, Moscow, Dusseldorf and Faro, “and this increase of the offer include, in brief, even more news”.
“this is a huge growth, revealing that the country’s national carrier, with the means at its disposal currently, is confident in the future. Indeed, only in the month of July 2017, the TAP will have a total of more 1.176 flights than in the same month of 2016, which corresponds to an increase of more 272.878 places available,” said Fernando Pinto.
In the same meeting, Fernando Pinto recalled that this growth to 2017 the following is the “a 2016 of intense activity and change in the TAP’, which highlighted the order of the new fleet (53 airplanes of medium and long course) that will begin to arrive at the end of 2017, the purchase of two A330 (to serve US), and “the’retrofit’ [interior renovation] of 48 planes”, currently in operation.
The responsible person also stressed that the strengthening of the operation “will not be like in 2014″, when, he admitted, the company recorded “immense delays” and cancellations of flights due to delay of delivery of aircraft and training of pilots. Now, “we already have the fleet planned,” he said.
this year, the TAP has replaced Portugalia (PGA) by the brand new commercial TAP Express, created an air bridge between Lisbon and Porto, made the launch of the Program ‘Stopover’, adopted “a new and more aggressive tariff policy” and stressed the importance of the North Atlantic with the release of the lines of Boston and New York -JFK.
strategic Changes that the person in charge has ensured they will be cases of success, bringing “more growth, more passengers, to TAP”, the numbers that promised to submit soon.
In Portugal, in addition to the launch of the air-bridge between Lisbon and Porto and the increase in frequencies for the Madeira and the Azores, the company increases now offer between Lisbon and Faro, passing from three to four daily frequencies, which corresponds to an increase of 33%, and that signals, according to the responsible, “the intent of new growth since the demand justifies this”.
So, the fleet of the TAP will be enhanced in 2017, with the entry into operation of a new aircraft long-haul (A330), two medium range (A320F), and four (Embraer) that will be included in the regional fleet of TAP Express, going from a total of 80 to 87 aircraft.
Asked about the provenance of these aircraft, Fernando Pinto said TAP is negotiating the strengthening of the fleet to operate new routes, adding that “three are in the final process of negotiation and there is still over another”.
“We are still examining on the market. Come from other companies,” he said. Asked if may come from the airline in Blue, owned by David Neeleman, a shareholder of TAP, said: “Probably not. Does not have available”.
This reinforcement fleet will be done through “a ‘lease’ [rental] temporary, two-year”, until the arrival of the first aircraft of the contract with Airbus.
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