TAP Air Portugal will return to pre-pandemic flight levels in summer 2023 by operating 17 additional flights to the Americas.
The airline said it was raising capacity “in line with customer demand”, which will see an additional 10 flights per week operated to the US.
TAP will operate 14 flights per week to Boston, 10 to Miami and Washington, and five to Chicago and San Francisco.
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It will also operate an additional six weekly flights to Brazil, with 20 flights to Sào Paulo, seven to Belo Horizonte, six to Salvador and Brasília, and four to Belém.
TAP said it also wants to improve connectivity between Portugal and Venezuela, and will increase flights from Lisbon to Caracas from two per week to three.
The airline said the growth in transatlantic flights from Lisbon is “critical”, adding it has “further plans” for its Porto hub “in the pipeline”.