TAP begins flights to Brasilia

On July 19, TAP will begin operating five flights a week between Lisbon and Brasilia, making it the first airline company to secure direct international flights to the federal capital of Brazil.

With this new route, TAP will now begin flying to a destination undergoing a phase of substantial growth taking on its role already as the largest air-traffic distribution platform in Brazil after Sao Paulo, thus enabling better connections to the north and west of the country.

TAP also received the “green light” from Brazilian authorities to increase supply on its other routes, starting to offer another five Lisbon – Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon – Sao Paulo flights a week.

On this last route, TAP recently received authorization for another two flights a week, one is already up and running and the other is to begin on July 18.

With the new flights, TAP now operates a total of 60 flights a week between Portugal and Brazil, strengthening its absolute leadership in passenger and cargo transportation between Europe and Brazil.

With this reinforcement to its operations, TAP offers daily fights to Fortaleza, Recife and Salvador plus five flights a week to Natal and Brasilia. Rio de Janeiro receives 12 flights a week via the Company from Lisbon plus three from Porto. TAP operates 11 flights to Sao Paulo from Lisbon and three from Porto.

At the end of last year, TAP operated 48 flights a week to Brazil, having transported 846,151 passengers in total on these routes, 20.3 percent more than in 2005.