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The four TAP routes created at the Porto airport “are currently a loss,” Minister Pedro Nuno Santos said. The mayor of Porto reacts saying that “this is good news”. “Stop”, suggests Rui Moreira, so Lisbon stays with TAP “without prejudice to Porto” and for the country “TAP stops costing us money.”
“Apparently, it is the four routes from Porto that are hurting TAP. The routes from Lisbon will generate profits.” This is how Rui Moreira begins reacting to the statements of the Minister of Infrastructure and Housing. Pedro Nuno Santos said, on Thursday, in a hearing at the Committee on Economy, Innovation, Public Works and Housing, that the four routes created at the Porto airport, to Amsterdam, Milan, Zurich and Ponta Delgada have “46% of capacity on average “and are” currently a loss to TAP. “
In a “post” on the social network Facebook, under the title “The good news of TAP”, Rui Moreira is assertive: “The new Lisbon / Bilbao route must be a ‘must’ in terms of profitability and very important for a strategy national. Visits to the Basque Gugenheim is ‘top’ ”.
The mayor of Porto explains why “it is good news”: “If it is the four routes of Porto that cause losses, stop them. But please incorporate TAP in Carris or the very profitable Soflusa. To find a solution.”
And he adds: “For Lisbon it’s great: staying with TAP, which, without prejudice to Porto, is no longer a waste. For the rest of the country – for the province in which we are happily included – it is wonderful, because TAP is leaving to cost us money “.
In Thursday’s hearing in parliament, Pedro Nuno Santos also revealed that the strengthening of the TAP Express / Portugalia fleet is being studied, to operate, from Porto and Faro, to other airports in Europe, in “point-to-point connections”. period “, in order to try to make TAP” more competitive “, that is, against” low cost “airlines.
In the future, “we want a sustainable TAP that can maintain its strategy as a ‘hub’ and reinforce it from point to point,” added the minister, highlighting that it is being evaluated whether it is possible to combine the two strategies.
Pedro Nuno Santos also guaranteed that he has “a good relationship with the regional government of Madeira” and highlighted the role of TAP in flights to the islands, highlighting that “if it was easy to make lower prices in relation to the autonomous communities, there were more Business”. To do”.
The minister also rejected that it is possible to support the entire aviation sector, taking into account the high values involved.
Regarding the company’s restructuring plan, which is being prepared by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), the official stressed that the final decision rests with the shareholders and that this work is advisory.
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