TAP launches direct flights between Lisbon and Turin

With the launch of the new route to Turin, in summer 2012 TAP will be operating a total of 93 flights per week between Portugal and Italy, offering direct flights to five cities in the country.

Currently TAP flies between Lisbon and Rome (28 flights per week), Milan (26 flights per week), Venice and Bologna (7 flights per week). TAP also operates flights to Italy from Porto with one daily flight to Rome and two daily flights to Milan.

Between January and November 2011, TAP transported a total of 764,000 passengers between Portugal and Italy which represented a growth of 12.8% in relation to the same period of the previous year.

The announcement of the new flight to Turin follows closely on the announcement that TAP will also be inaugurating direct flights to Berlin in summer 2012. These two new destinations will further strengthen TAP's European network, which in 2010 accounted for 58 percent of the airline's total passenger numbers, a percentage that between January and October this year had already increased to 59.4% of the total.