The Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Sérgio Monteiro, said on Tuesday that the disturbances affecting the TAP in June and July are remedied, considering that the company has learned from the mistakes of this summer, that can not be repeated .
“It seemed like a good attitude: learning from mistakes that may exist from the point of view of operational planning and everything to do that next year there is a different response that existed this year,” he said, quoted by Lusa at the end of a meeting with the company president, Fernando Pinto.
The meeting, also attended by the Minister of Economy, António Pires de Lima, served in the administration of TAP submit a plan to ensure normal operation.
The plan involves strengthening of the airline’s fleet with a new medium-haul plane, which the administration wants to add more equipment over long distances. An acquisition that is, however, dependent on the approval of the Ministry of Finance.
Sérgio Monteiro assured that the government is comfortable and confident with what he heard from the president of the company, but it will keep the requirement and the “closely monitor”.
From out of the meeting was the issue of privatization of the carrier, which remains a strategic objective of the government because “TAP need capital, need to grow, to better serve the country, “said Secretary of State.
” The only reference is what the market will say. still do not know if we are able to make the decision in the short term, “said Sérgio Monteiro.
Since June, the airline, the government tried unsuccessfully to privatize even in 2012, suffered disturbances result of delayed delivery of six new aircraft operation, the period of peak demand. The last equipment arrived only now, having performed the first flight on Saturday.
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