Portugal's TAP starts to restore flights to London, Paris

Portugal’s flag carrier TAP resumed some of its international operations on Thursday with a flight to London as lockdown measures imposed to combat the spread of the coronavirus are slowly being lifted in the tourism-dependent country. A flight to London Heathrow took off at around 3 p.m. (1400 GMT) according to the Lisbon airport departures webpage, and the British airport listed it as due to land at 1645 GMT. There is another flight from Lisbon to Heathrow scheduled for Sunday, according to TAP’s website that also showed a scheduled flight to Sao Paulo in Brazil on May 14. TAP is expected to operate a flight from Lisbon to Paris on Friday morning, the Lisbon airport website showed. A plan shared on TAP’s website on May 5 but later deleted had revealed flights from Lisbon to London and Paris would take place twice a week until the end of May.<br/>