Thursday, December 1, 2016

TAP is now beginning to compete with the euroAtlantic flights between Lisbon and Bissau – PressTur

The recovery by TAP-line-Bissau was communicated by the company to travel agencies the Portuguese in the mid – August a information in which it was advanced that they were expected to take two flights night per week, Thursdays and Saturdays.

THE flight of today, in the Airbus A320, departed from the Lisbon at 22h34, according to the information on the website of the ANA, which thus indicates a a delay of approximately 45 minutes in relation to the time advertised.

THE information in August to travel agents Portuguese specified that the departures from Lisbon are at 21h50, with the arrival planned to Bissau in the early hours of the next day, at 2h00. In the reverse direction, the flights out of Bissau at 2h50 and the arrival in Lisbon is scheduled for the 6h40.

THE same information indicated also that the rates were already available in the GDS, referring to the fact that prices round began in 411 euros (to read more click: TAP resume flights to Bissau 1 December with prices round trip from 411 euros).

THE TAP suspended its flights from/to Bissau from 10 December 2013, “in the wake of the departure in forced the airport of Bissau 74 passengers with false documents”.

THE company still hired flights to Senegal Airlines to transport passengers between Lisbon and Dakar, “taking into account the period of the year of this occurrence,” but at the end of December ceased this contract and the TAP has stopped these calls, announcing that “the realization, in the future, flights of the TAP between Lisbon and Bissau will be reassessed when there are no guarantees that allow the realization of flights in normal conditions of security.”

However, who came up to operate flights between Lisbon and Bissau was the euroAtlantic Tomaz Metello and the Pestana Group, from 14 November 2014, the second indicated then, in the framework of an “agreement between the Government of Guinea-Bissau, through the Secretary of State for Transport and the the Portuguese company”.

Data from the Lisbon Airport to the PressTUR had access show that in November 2014, with half a month’s operation, 536 passengers flew from/to Guinea-Bissau, and in the following month, that number had risen to 1.068.

THE year 2014 ended with 1.605 passengers on flights to/from Bissau, very far from the 26.231 that they had used these flights in 2013.

In the year 2015, however, the number of passengers on flights between Lisbon and Bissau, have already not stayed away from 2013, to achieve the 22.585, and this year, the trend was in the direction of be exceeded the numbers of 2013, a time that at the end of October already observed 21.238 passengers, with an increase of 15.8% compared with the same period of 2015.

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