Portugália Airlines

Portugália Airlines
IATA code :	NI
ICAO code :	PGA
Call sign :	AIR PORTUGAL (by TAP; previously PORTUGALIA)
Founding:	1988
Seat:	Lisbon , Portugal
Turnstile :	Lisbon
Home airport :	Lisbon
IATA prefix code :	047 (from TAP)
Alliance :	Star Alliance (via TAP)
Frequent Flyer Program :	TAP Victoria
Fleet size:	13
Aims:	national and continental
Website:	www.portugalia-airlines.pt

Portugália Airlines , actually Portugália Companhia Portuguesa de Transportes Aereos SAA or PGA for short , from June 2016 under the brand TAP Express , is a Portuguese regional airline based in Lisbon and based at Lisbon Humberto Delgado Airport . It is a subsidiary of TAP Portugal , for which it operates flights.

history

BAe ATP from the PGA

Portugália was founded in 1988 and began operations in 1990 with a Fokker 100 . The company posted a loss of $ 12 million in the first two years, and made its first small profit in 1993. The majority owner with 84.35% was the Portuguese Espírito Santo Financial Group . In 1999 Portugália was to be sold to SAirGroup , the parent company of Swissair . Due to delays under antitrust and European law and later due to financial problems at Swissair, the final sale did not take place. A claim for damages by the Espírito Santo Financial Group in the amount of 105 million euros against the insolvency administrator of Swissair was judicially rejected in 2003.

From 2001 to 2005 Portugália was by Skytrax each year the title Best European Regional Airline (dt. Best European regional airline ) awarded. In 2004, Portugália carried its ten millionth passenger.

On November 27, 2007, the takeover of 99.836% of the Portugália shares by the country's largest airline, TAP Portugal , was agreed. As part of this agreement with Espírito Santo Financial Group, TAP also took over Portugália's six percent stake in the ground handling provider Groundforce .

In the wake of the takeover by TAP, Portugália flights are now only operated under their flight numbers and only marketed through TAP.

At the beginning of 2016 it was announced that the Portugália brand would completely disappear from the market. In the course of this, the company will be renamed TAP Portugal express and, in addition to a fleet renewal, will also have a new corporate design, which is similar to that of the parent company, but with the express logo added.

Destinations

Within Portugal, Portugália Airlines flies to Madeira , Lisbon , Porto Santo , Faro , São Miguel , Pico , Terceira , Faial and Porto on behalf of and on behalf of TAP . Destinations across Europe include Brussels , Paris , Luxembourg and London . Portugália Airlines also used to fly to Germany and Switzerland, for example Cologne / Bonn and Basel-Mulhouse .

fleet

Current fleet

As of March 2018, the Portugália Airlines fleet consists of 13 aircraft with an average age of 6.3 years:

Aircraft type	active	ordered	Remarks	Seats ( Business / Economy )
Embraer 190	09			106 (- / 106)
Embraer 195	04th			118 (- / 118)
total	13

Former aircraft types

In addition, Portugália Airlines used the following aircraft types in the past:

• ATR 42
• ATR 72
• BAe ATP
• Embraer ERJ 145
• Fokker 100
• Saab 2000

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : Portugalia Airlines  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Data about the airline Portugália Airlines (TAP Regional) in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
• Portugália Airlines website (English and Portuguese)
• Web presence of the parent company TAP Portugal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} TAP starts airlift between Lisbon and Porto , accessed on February 3, 2016
2. ↑ primusverlag.ch - TAP takes over Portugália , accessed on November 7, 2006.
3. ↑ Planespotters - Portugália Airlines fleet accessed on March 24, 2018
4. ↑ portugalia-airlines.pt - Fleet (English) accessed on January 11, 2018
5. ↑ airfleets.net - PGA Portugalia Airlines (English), accessed on July 28, 2017