About TAP Portugal  

TAP Portugal joined World Aviation Systems in December 1997 and is represented throughout Australia.

TAP is a Portuguese airline market leader, which celebrated its 60th anniversary on March 14th of 2005; the date on which it also became part of the Star Alliance, the largest global alliance of airlines in the world.

With its Hub in Lisbon - a privileged access platform to Europe – at the crossroads with other Continents, the Company currently flies to 43 destinations, throughout 25 countries in Africa and North and South America; a region in which TAP stands out as being the leading operational European transportation company to Brazil; closest serviced destination port to Australia is Johannesburg.

TAP operates the largest number of connections between Portugal and Spain, with flights between Lisbon and Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Corunna, Malaga, Pamplona and Seville and between Porto, Madrid and Barcelona; 12 flights a day between Portugal and Italy

TAP proudly stands as the leading European carrier in operation in Brazil; with direct operations now to seven gateways: Sao Paulo; Rio de Janeiro; Salvador; Recife, Fortaleza; Natal, Brasilia and opening up of its route from Lisbon to Belo Horizonte in 2008 on February 11.With this new connection to the capital of Minas Gerais State, TAP now offers 65 flights a week to a total of eight Brazilian cities.

Continuing a strategic direction whose priority is Client expectation satisfaction, TAP continuously seeks to provide its clients with the best and easiest solutions for their trips, continuously adding additional value to the product they offer.

With this objective, the Company also establishes the best of partnerships, on land and in the air; offering, thus, an increased number of destinations served in code-share with similar companies, in addition to a diversified group of advantages and associated fringe benefits.

TAP intends to turn itself into, ever more, a reference airline on the international scene, taking advantage of business opportunities of markets in which it competes and differentiating itself with its operational efficiency and quality of service. The Company aims to build, at every moment the best choice for its client’s trips, as well as to assure its Shareholders with the most adequate levels of profitability and its employees with the best conditions of professional development.

TAP check-in online is available for departures from Continental Portugal, Madeira, The Azores, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Brussels Amsterdam, London, Rome, Milan, Venice, Bologna, Oslo, Luanda, Stockholm & Copenhagen to the entire TAP network (except for the USA). Check-in online can be made from between 24 hours in advance and 90 minutes (five hours in Luanda) prior to flight departure, for passengers with an electronic ticket and a confirmed reservation on flights operated by TAP.

Passengers with stowed luggage who have used check-in online should proceed to the respective ticket boarding desk within the time limit for baggage drop-off (information provided when processing their check-in online and shown on the respective boarding card). Check-in online is available on the http://www.flytap.com/  with immediate boarding card printout.

Additionally, TAP also offers passengers with confirmed flights and no luggage TAP Tele check-in; available 24hrs before flights to Schengen (45 mins before boarding) & Non Schengen Destinations, Africa, Brazil & Venezuela (60 mins before boarding) & to the USA (2 hours before boarding).