Hello everybody!
That's my trip report from Lisbon to Asturias with TAP Portugal, a Star Alliance Member, and also the TAP Portugal's Lisbon Premium Lounge. This flight were operated by White Airways with the brand of Portugalia Airline, the TAP's regional airline.
After security scanning the duty free area
Premium Lounge entrance
With some variety of sandwichs, snacks and with very very good Pastel de Nata
Beverages section
My breakfast
Part of lounge lower floor
Lounge upper floor
FIDS
View of stand 114, gate 14
F-GRHY - Airbus A319-111 - Air France
CS-TRV - ATR-42-600 - PGA - Portugalia Airlines, TP1075 arriving from Malaga at 11h20
The stands with an Air France and a Sata Airbus
The terminal
Gate 12
CS-TJE - Airbus A321-211 - TAP Portugal
D-AIRU - Airbus A321-131 - Lufthansa
TAP's big boys: A330 + A340, an Embraer E-Jets from Montenegro Airlines and also 2 Boeings from EuroAtlantic
Boarding the plane at 11:52
Pushing-back from stand 105 at 11:57
Taxing to rwy 03 via A and M
The cabin from seat 5A
G-EZDV - Airbus A319-111 - easyJet at stand 208
Holding Point M5, before entering at runway 03 for take-off
Lining-up
Rolling-out
Airborne at 12h06 (6 minutes late than STD)
Tagus River
Ota Air Base
Santarém air strip and Santarém City
The snack box
With a delicious sandwich and water
Up Magazine and Safety card
70th TAP birthday
Lavatory
Descending to Asturias
Touch down on runway 11 at 14:35 (10 min earlier than STA)
Disembarking
EC-KLT - Airbus A320-216 - Vueling Airlines
The arrivals hall
The bus to Oviedo with TAP Portugal ad
Thank you for reading
Thank you for sharing this report!
A rare domestic flight aboard TP that is inter-Iberian Peninsula, I'm always surprised by how small their route map is for domestic flights.
I find the seating colors in the TP Lounge to be a little but too busy for my taste (never been in person, so just judging on pictures), but the overall ambiance doesn't seem bad.
It's cool to see a rare ATR-42, it's normally always ATR-72s. This plane looks really new, how old was it? I've never see such a nice paint job on a tuboprop, I'd expect it to be almost black with all the soot from engines. Cabin is probably tight, but it looks very nice.
The snack box for a route of this length is very good; it's nice to at least get a sandwich during a lunchtime flight.
Great aerial photography during this flight, you got to see everything from beaches to mountains to farmland.
OVD doesn't look so nice.
TP reports recently have been looking very strong, which is a good sign that they are revitalizing.
Hi!
Thank you very much for your comment. Unfortunately there aren't so many reports in this routes but TAP flies from Lisbon to A Coruna, Asturias, Bilbao, Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Malaga and Seville. Spain is a very important market for TAP, mostly for connecting flights to Brazil and Europe. The aircraft operanting this route were leased by TAP to White Airways, a Portuguese Charter Airline and delivered at 26/Nov/2014. The cabin is a bit tight but it's a small flight and I think that it's enough. I've also opportunity to talk with the flight crew and they said that it's a very reliable aircraft. As turbo prop it takes more 15 min comparing with jet aircrafts (and a bit noisier too) but spent less fuel (The aircraft spent +/- 1000kg for a 400mi route). The catering is also very good for this type of flight.
I really enjoy the TAP Premium Lounge because had a very relaxing and calm environment comparing with other but it's a bit small. When you visit taste the very good Pasteis de Nata and also very good portuguese wines.
TAP is making a big effort to erase the memories of last Summer and trying to winning back their customers.
OVD is a very small airport and recives +/- 10 flights.
Thanks to sharing this FR ;)