The Porto municipality says TAP ended the “strategic” last night flight Lisbon / Porto, which leads to the north passengers who arrive in Lisbon between 19:30 and 22:00. TAP submits that the flight remains, performing only ten minutes later than the current one.
“This flight, operated by the TAP, with Airbus A319 and A320 aircraft, had place at 22:35 and traveled systematically crowded “, underlines the council said in a statement sent to Lusa.
the Portuguese airline, which recently announced an ‘air bridge’ between Lisbon and Porto from March, date it will discontinue several flights of average European course from Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport, “not publicly announced the abandonment of strategic flight TAP”.
the Port House says that “it is already impossible schedule flights April this flight “, which have been discontinued, noting that the carrier” did not even have flights in the afternoon between Lisbon and Porto, limited to the airlift carried out with reconditioned aircraft Azul Brazilian company. “
This adds the municipality, “require that passengers of more than 20 flights that come from Europe to Lisbon, between 19:30 and 22:00, are left without connecting flight to Porto and have to sleep in Lisbon since the last flight between the two cities becomes 20:00 “.
” Even this flight will be capable of only 68 passengers, it will be operated in the ATR 72, propeller aircraft the service of the White company, that the TAP call TAP Express, but most are of the planes that Blue has not underutilized in Brazil, “reads the statement.
” Given that the flight of 22:35, quietly discontinued by TAP from March, traveling always full, accrued-about 45 thousand passengers per year. These passengers, stemmed from Europe to the port, will now be forced to spend the night in Lisbon and directly subtracted from an overnight stay in the port, “he says.
To these” add up over tens of thousands “to be thanks to the same fate, since “only 68 of them will fit on the penultimate and last flights in ATR propeller operated under the symbol TAP Express, but in fact, are flights White with Blue aircraft (at 19:00 “.
according to the data collected by the Council of Porto in Airbus, which so far linked Lisbon to Porto,” and 20:00) fit at least 124 passengers, in the case of the A319 – 100 the smaller plane TAP “.
air carrier Reaction
Contacted by TSF, the press office of TAP says that from 27 March comes into force the so-called summer time in which the flight of 22h35 going to be done at 22.45 at the connection between the two cities is assured. TAP also argues that the planes that will be used will be suitable to the demand can be ATR, for 70 people, or Airbus, for more passengers.
also according to TAP, the times relating to this flight, are not yet available on the online page of the company.
on the issue of the continuation, or not, this flight from October, the date on which it becomes in effect the “winter time”, the company says it is a matter to be decided when the calendar is in preparation.
President of the Port House has criticized the TAP strategy to Porto, defending the need for the Government to give air carrier orders to restore international connections which the company announced want to suspend from Francisco Sá Carneiro airport.
in a press conference held on Monday, Rui Moreira argued that, with the state owning 50% of the carrier, TAP must provide a “public service” and that ” the public service must be provided throughout the territory. “
the Prime Minister, António Costa, said Saturday that the agreement to reverse the privatization of TAP leaves the Government with scope to intervene on maintenance of a base in Porto.
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