São Paulo – Portuguese airline TAP announced yesterday (3) that it should inaugurate a direct flight between Lisbon and Algiers, the Algerian capital, with three flights a week. The aircraft operated should be an Embraer for 45 passengers. TAP is the European airline that has the largest number of flights to Brazil.
According to information supplied by the company, return trips to the Algerian capital should take place on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. In June, the company should also start flying from Lisbon to Marrakesh, in Morocco, on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays. TAP already flies to Casablanca, with 13 options a week.
The company plans to expand its presence on the African continent. According to the organisation, with the routes to be inaugurated in June, 11 cities in nine countries in Africa will be serviced with 58 flights a week.
The company informed that Africa was the only region to which the company has constantly increased the number of passengers transported since 2001, rising from 236,000 passengers to 541,000. Last year, according to TAP, there was 6.4% expansion in passenger traffic to the continent, and the only area to which there was growth in 2009.
TAP also flies to Sal and Praia, in Cape Verde, Dakar, in Senegal, Luanda, in Angola, Maputo, in Mozambique and Johannesburg, in South Africa, as well as Guinea Bissau and São Tomé & Príncipe.
*Translated by Mark Ament
