TAP Air Portugal was founded as a division of Portugal's Civil Aviation Department under the name Transportes Aéreos Portugueses on 14 March 1945, and started operations on 19 September 1946, initially serving the Lisbon–Madrid route using the Douglas DC-3. A year later, the carrier added a route to Angola and Mozambique, at the time claimed to be the world's longest route operated with a Douglas DC-3, having 13 intermediate stops.
In 1957, the airline deployed Super Constellations on the Lisbon–London and Lisbon–Paris sectors, yet operations of the type date back to , when these aircraft started flying the route that linked Portugal with Portuguese Angola and Portuguese Mozambique. By , the carrier's network consisted of the long-haul Lisbon–Kano–Leopoldville–Luanda–Lourenço Marques route, as well as medium- and short-haul routes radiating from Lisbon and serving Casablanca, London, Madrid, Paris and Tangier, and a single domestic flight between Lisbon and Porto. On 1 November 1962, the airline started services between Lisbon and London, flying the route using the Sud Aviation Caravelle, taking over the services that had been operated by British European Airways on behalf of the company.
, TAP Portugal was the European airline with the most destinations in Brazil (10), being the leader in terms of passengers transported between this country and Europe, in comparison with their European counterparts, as well as with the Brazilian ones. As of August 2012, the airline was the third largest to serve Latin America by number of passengers; , the carrier shifted to the fourth place in the Europe-Latin America sector. Data from the latest financial report, corresponding to the fiscal year 2012, showed that the airline had its main source of traffic in Europe, and their most important long-haul market was South America.
Apart from Brazil, the countries with the most destinations served by the carrier are Spain (7), France (6) and Germany (5). TAP Portugal also flies to other 25 international destinations in Europe, 15 in Africa, in the United States and one more in Latin America (Caracas). At the end of 2013, TAP announced its plan to start flying to additional destinations in Europe during 2014 (Nantes, Hannover, Tallinn, Gothenburg, Belgrade and Saint Petersburg), whose schedule was announced before 31 March 2014. , the number of destinations in Brazil served by the carrier increased to 12 with the addition of Belém and Manaus to the route network. During , TAP Portugal launched services to Belgrade, Bogotá, Gothenburg, Hanover, Nantes, Oviedo, Panama City, Saint Petersburg and Tallinn.
List TAP Air Portugal's route network included 84 destinations in 35 countries, . Following is a list of destinations the airline flies to according to its scheduled services. It also includes cities served by the airline's subsidiaries Portugália and TAP Express, as well as terminated destinations.
CountryCityAirportNotesRefsAlgeriaAlgiersHouari Boumediene Airport AngolaLuandaDr. António Agostinho Neto International Airport Quatro de Fevereiro AirportArgentinaBuenos AiresMinistro Pistarini International AirportAustriaViennaVienna International Airport BelgiumBrusselsBrussels Airport BrazilBelémVal de Cans International Airport Belo HorizonteTancredo Neves International Airport BrasíliaBrasília International Airport CampinasViracopos International AirportCuritibaAfonso Pena International Airport FlorianópolisHercilio Luz International Airport FortalezaPinto Martins – Fortaleza International Airport MaceióMaceió International Airport ManausEduardo Gomes International Airport NatalGreater Natal International Airport Porto AlegreSalgado Filho International Airport RecifeRecife/Guararapes–Gilberto Freyre International Airport Rio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro/Galeão International Airport SalvadorDeputado Luís Eduardo Magalhães International Airport São Luís Marechal Cunha Machado International AirportSão PauloSão Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport CanadaMontrealMontréal–Trudeau International Airport TorontoToronto Pearson International Airport Cape VerdeBoa VistaAristides Pereira International Airport PraiaNelson Mandela International Airport SalAmílcar Cabral International Airport São VicenteCesária Évora Airport ColombiaBogotáEl Dorado International AirportCroatiaDubrovnikDubrovnik AirportCubaVaraderoJuan Gualberto Gómez AirportCuraçaoWillemstadHato International AirportCzech RepublicPragueVáclav Havel Airport Prague Democratic Republic of the CongoKinshasaN'djili AirportDenmarkCopenhagenCopenhagen Airport Dominican RepublicPunta CanaPunta Cana International AirportEstoniaTallinnTallinn AirportFinlandHelsinkiHelsinki Airport FranceBordeauxBordeaux–Mérignac Airport LyonLyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport MarseilleMarseille Provence Airport NantesNantes Atlantique Airport NiceNice Côte d'Azur Airport ParisCharles de Gaulle AirportOrly Airport ToulouseToulouse–Blagnac Airport GambiaBanjulBanjul International Airport GermanyBerlinBerlin Brandenburg Airport Berlin Schönefeld Airportairliners.de - "TAP switches airports in Berlin" (German) 2 September 2016Berlin Tegel AirportCologneCologne Bonn AirportDüsseldorfDüsseldorf Airport FrankfurtFrankfurt Airport HamburgHamburg Airport HanoverHannover AirportMunichMunich Airport StuttgartStuttgart Airport GhanaAccraAccra International Airport GreeceAthensAthens International Airport GuineaConakryAhmed Sékou Touré International AirportGuinea-BissauBissauOsvaldo Vieira International Airport HungaryBudapestBudapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport IrelandDublinDublin Airport IsraelTel AvivBen Gurion AirportItalyBolognaBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport FlorenceFlorence Airport TAP Portugal begin new service to Florence from June 2018MilanMilan Linate AirportMilan Malpensa Airport NaplesNaples International Airport RomeRome Fiumicino Airport TurinTurin AirportVeniceVenice Marco Polo Airport Ivory CoastAbidjanFélix-Houphouët-Boigny International Airport LuxembourgLuxembourgLuxembourg Airport MaliBamakoBamako–Sénou International AirportMexicoCancúnCancún International Airport MacauMacauMacau International AirportMoroccoAgadirAgadir–Al Massira AirportCasablancaMohammed V International Airport MarrakeshMarrakesh Menara Airport OujdaAngads Airport TangerTangier Ibn Battouta Airport MozambiqueMaputoMaputo International Airport BeiraBeira AirportNetherlandsAmsterdamAmsterdam Airport Schiphol NigeriaKanoMallam Aminu Kano International AirportNorwayOsloOslo Fornebu AirportOslo Gardermoen Airport PanamaPanama CityTocumen International AirportPolandWarsawWarsaw Chopin Airport PortugalFaroFaro Airport FunchalMadeira AirportHortaHorta AirportLisbonLisbon AirportPicoPico AirportPonta DelgadaJoão Paulo II Airport PortoPorto AirportPorto SantoPorto Santo AirportSanta Maria IslandSanta Maria AirportTerceiraLajes Field Republic of the CongoBrazzavilleMaya-Maya AirportRomaniaBucharestBucharest Henri Coandă International AirportRussiaMoscowDomodedovo International AirportSaint PetersburgPulkovo AirportSão Tomé and PríncipeSão ToméSão Tomé International Airport SenegalDakarBlaise Diagne International Airport Léopold Sédar Senghor International AirportSerbiaBelgradeBelgrade Nikola Tesla AirportSouth AfricaCape TownCape Town International Airport JohannesburgO. R. Tambo International AirportSpainA CoruñaA Coruña AirportAlicanteAlicante–Elche Miguel Hernández Airport AsturiasAsturias Airport BarcelonaJosep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat Airport BilbaoBilbao Airport FuerteventuraFuerteventura Airport IbizaIbiza Airport Las PalmasGran Canaria Airport MadridAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport MahónMenorca AirportMálagaMálaga Airport OviedoOviedo AirportPalma de MallorcaPalma de Mallorca AirportSantiago de CompostelaSantiago–Rosalía de Castro Airport SevilleSeville Airport ValenciaValencia Airport VigoVigo–Peinador AirportSwedenGothenburgGöteborg Landvetter AirportStockholmStockholm Arlanda Airport SwitzerlandFranceGermanyBaselMulhouseFreiburgEuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg SwitzerlandGenevaGeneva Airport ZurichZurich Airport ThailandBangkokDon Mueang International AirportTunisiaDjerbaDjerba–Zarzis International AirportMonastirMonastir Habib Bourguiba International AirportUnited KingdomLondonLondon City AirportGatwick Airport Heathrow Airport ManchesterManchester Airport Newcastle upon TyneNewcastle AirportUnited StatesBostonLogan International Airport ChicagoO'Hare International Airport Los AngelesLos Angeles International AirportMiamiMiami International Airport New York CityJohn F. Kennedy International Airport NewarkNewark Liberty International Airport OrlandoOrlando International Airport San FranciscoSan Francisco International Airport Washington, D.C.Washington Dulles International Airport VenezuelaCaracasSimón Bolívar International Airport ZimbabweHarareRobert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport
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