1,000 TAP flights in February

TAP performed 1,000 flights in February, one third of the number in January, which compares with the more than 10,000 flights operated in February 2020, before the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. “For the fourth consecutive month, the number of flights has declined, with February experiencing a deepest drop, with only 1,077 flights taking place, a third of the number of flights in January. Both figures are very distant from the more than 10,000 flights / month operated in January and February 2019 and 2020”, says the executive president of TAP, Ramiro Sequeira. In its internal newsletter, the airline said that “in February the downward trend in terms of number of flights and capacity (ASK - Available seat kilometre) was accentuated, compared to February 2020, pre-pandemic”, with a 89% reduction in the number of flights and 92% in capacity“, due to the worsening of restrictive measures, by all regions of the world, as a way of containing the pandemic”. This downward trend is also visible in the evolution of the number of flights over the past few months, said TAP.<br/>