TAP Portugal Introduces Scheduled Long-Haul Links to Porto Alegre

TAP Portugal is to launch flights between Lisbon and Porto Alegre, its tenth destination in Brazil. In the process it will become the first long-haul international carrier to introduce scheduled services to the capital city of the southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul. The four times weekly link will open on June 12, but frequencies are expected to drop to three times weekly during the Northern Winter schedules from late October. TAP Portugal already accounts for more than a quarter of the total weekly seats available between Europe and Brazil with 63 weekly flights to Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Campinas, Fortaleza, Natal, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Sao Paulo. Traffic at Porto Alegre is currently dominated by domestic connections although international flights are also provided to Argentina, Guyana and Uruguay.

Schedule:

TP163 LIS0940 – 1655POA 332 x245
TP162 POA1925 – 1005+1LIS 332 16
TP160 POA2140 – 1220+1LIS 332 37

Schedule Source: Airline Route