The Portuguese airline TAP announced that its data up to June indicate that it transported a total of 7.58 million passengers in the first half of this year, 30.2% more than in the same period of the previous year.
The company highlights the robust growth of intercontinental flights, especially on routes to Brazil, North America and Africa, where the airline transported 2.17 million passengers from January to June, which represents an increase of 31.1% over the same period of the previous year.
On these intercontinental routes, TAP has already managed to increase the number of passengers transported by 14.7% compared to the same six months of the pre-pandemic period, 2019, thus demonstrating the company’s solid recovery.
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On continental routes (flights in Europe, including mainland Portugal and its islands), TAP transported a total of 5.41 million passengers in the first half of 2023, an annual increase of 29.8%, but still 10% below the period before the pandemic.
The traffic indicators for the first half now revealed by the airline are also very positive in terms of the average occupancy rate, which was 80.2%, 5.5 percentage points higher than in 2022 and already half a percentage point higher than the period before the pandemic.
