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TAP Portugal posts a $20.6 million profit in 2012

TAP Portugal (Lisbon) posted a $20.6 million profit in 2012.

The airline issued the following financial statement:

With a profit of 15.9 million euros in 2012, this was well above the 3.1 million in 2011, TAP SA achieved positive results for the fourth consecutive year.ย ย 

In 2012, total debt was reduced from 1042 TAP million to 862 million, which represents an improvement of 21%.ย Note also that the total debt, which in 2011 represented 46% of total income and gains, fell to 35% in 2012.

Obtaining a positive net income for the fourth year was made possible by the company’s growth, which reached 4.4% with over 10,186 million passengers, surpassing for the first time in its history the barrier of 10 million.

Total revenues in financial year 2012 amounted to 2,429 million euros, showing an increase of 6.9% compared to 2273 million in the previous year, highlighting the Maintenance Assistance (Third Party) with an improvement of 23% and ticket revenues with a growth of 6.7%.

Operating costs, excluding fuel, stood at 1,422 million euros, 4.8% more than the 1,357 recorded in 2011.ย The fuel bill, whose cost has not stopped growing since 2008, had in 2012 an additional 93 million euros, up 13% compared to 2011.

The positive results of TAP reflect the continuing effort to improve efficiency, achieved through productivity gains and decreased consumption.

Operating results were also positive at 43.4 million euros, 5.6% better than the 41.1 recorded in 2011.

While increasing the supply (PKO) 4.1%, the national airline increased demand (PKU) of 4.8%, which allowed also improve the load factor of 76.3% in 2011 to the 76.8 percent in 2012.

Copyright Photo: Dave Glendinning.ย Airbus A320-214 CS-TNP (msn 2178) in the Star Alliance livery taxies to the runway at London (Heathrow).

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TAP Portugal to launch a new route to Bucharest

TAP Portugal (Lisbon) has announced new serviceย between Lisbon and Bucharest will start on June 30 with three flights per week to the Romanian capital.

Flights will depart from Lisbon on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 11:10 pm (2310) arriving in Bucharest at 5:10 am (0510). The Bucharest-Lisbon return flights will depart on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays at 6:00 am (0600) arriving in Lisbon at 8:25 am (0825). The new route will operate with Airbus A319s.

The announcement of the new flights to Bucharest follows TAP’s earlier announcements that it will be launching two other new European routes in 2012, to Berlin (June 5) and Turin (June 3).

With these three new routes already launched this year, TAP will be flying to a total of 51 European destinations in 22 countries, thereby continuing to consolidate its European network, a sector which flew 5.79 million passengers in 2011, an increase of 9.3 percent over the previous year.

The flag carrier will suspend the Lisbon-Athens route for the winter season starting on October 28.

Copyright Photo: Pepscl.

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TAP Portugal to launch two new routes in June

TAP Portugal (Lisbon) will start nonstop Lisbon-Berlin (Brandenburg) service on June 5, 2012 as well as Lisbon-Turin on June 3, 2012 per Airline Route. Both new routes will be flown with Airbus A319s.

Copyright Photo: Pepscl.

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Portuguese prime minister urges Lufthansa to consider buying TAP Portugal

TAP Portugal (Lisbon) is facing an uncertain future. British Airways and IAG are considering adding TAP Portugal to their group. Now the Portuguese prime minister is urging profitable Lufthansa to take a close look at the flag carrier.

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Copyright Photo: Rolf Wallner.

IAG swings to a first half profit, wants to merge TAP

IAG (International Airlines Group) (British Airways and Iberia) (London) swung to a first half profit.

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In other news, CEO Willie Walsh wants to acquire and merge TAP Portugal (Lisbon) with IAG according to this report by Bloomberg.

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Copyright Photo: Gilbert Hechema.

Is the IAG planning a bid for TAP Portugal?

The International Airlines Group (IAG) (British Airways and Iberia) (London) is planning abid for TAP Portugal (Lisbon) according to a report by the Sunday Times.

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TAP Portugal posts a $86 million net profit in 2010

TAP Portugal (Lisbon) posted a $86 million net profit for 2010 according to the Associated Press.

In addition, the company will add Miami and the Lisbon-Miami route starting on June 6.

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TAP Portugal’s pilots call off their strike

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TAP Portugal’s (Lisbon) pilots have called off a planned six-day strike after agreeing to a pay and productivity deal with the state-owned airline’s management.

Read the full report from Business Week:

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9EKU4GG0.htm

TAP Portugal’s A320 CS-TMW loses radio contact

TAP Portugalโ€™s (Lisbon) Airbus A320-214 CS-TMW (msn 1667) operating a flight between Lisbon and Copenhagen lost radio contact over Belgium last weekend for approximately 30 minutes. NATO (Luftwaffe) fighter jets were displaced.

Copyright Photo: Bruce Drum.

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