{"id":121474,"date":"2017-11-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/tap-portugal-intends-to-introduce-daily-flights-on-the-bucharest-lisbon-route\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T12:02:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T10:02:28","slug":"tap-portugal-intends-to-introduce-daily-flights-on-the-bucharest-lisbon-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/tap-portugal-intends-to-introduce-daily-flights-on-the-bucharest-lisbon-route\/","title":{"rendered":"TAP Portugal intends to introduce daily flights on the Bucharest-Lisbon route"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Portuguese national airline TAP Portugal intends to introduce daily flights on the Bucharest-Lisbon route. Until March 31, the airline has 6 flights per week scheduled, stated Claudia Stroescu, sales manager for Romania.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>TAP Portugal expects a load factor of 90%, with 150 passengers per flight. Starting in November, the company will operate using only its own aircraft.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In September, the company recorded a record level of 1.38 million passengers, an increase of 19% compared to other years when 220,000 passengers were recorded. The Portuguese airline&#8217;s passenger load factor was 86.8%, up by 1.4%.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The largest absolute increase in passenger numbers was again on European routes, with 147,000 passengers, 21.1% higher than in September 2016.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Regarding flight occupancy, the fullest planes are on Brazilian routes, with 92.3% of seats occupied, an increase of 5.5% compared to the previous year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the first nine months of this year, the airline transported 10.64 million passengers, an increase of 23.6% compared to the first nine months of last year, equivalent to over 2 million passengers.<\/div>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>How many flights will TAP Portugal operate between Bucharest and Lisbon?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TAP Portugal plans to increase its frequency to daily flights, up from the current schedule of six flights per week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the expected occupancy rate for these flights?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The airline anticipates a load factor of 90%, averaging approximately 150 passengers per flight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which routes are currently the most popular for TAP Portugal?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Routes to Brazil are the most occupied, with a 92.3% load factor, while European routes show the highest absolute growth in passenger numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portuguese national airline TAP Portugal intends to introduce daily flights on the Bucharest-Lisbon route. Until March 31, the airline has 6 flights per week scheduled, stated Claudia Stroescu, sales manager for Romania. TAP Portugal expects a load factor of 90%, with 150 passengers per flight. Starting in November, the company will operate using only&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":66980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2856],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-121474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conectivity"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/transport-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121474"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=121474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}