Like announced at the beginning of the yearWith the delivery of two new Airbus A330s scheduled for next June, bringing the number of long-haul aircraft owned by the airline to 20, TAP Portugal will be able to strengthen its American catalogue. The Portuguese carrier has just clarified its ambitions by making official the launch of new daily flights to New York-JFK and Boston-Logan. Service to Boston will begin on 11 June 2016, with a 2.25pm take-off from Lisbon and a 5pm arrival. Return flights will leave Boston at 7.45pm and arrive in Lisbon at 7.20am the following day. Daily flights to New York will begin on 1 July, leaving Lisbon at 5pm and arriving at JFK at 8pm. The return flight will leave New York at 11.30pm, landing in Lisbon the following day at 11.30am.
" I congratulate TAP Portugal and welcome them back to JFK, where we recently recorded a record number of passengers for 2015, with a total of 30 million international travellers. "says Thomas L. Bosco, Director of the Airport Aviation Authority. " I hope that our friends at TAP Portugal, who have always been excellent partners of Newark Liberty International Airport, will enjoy the same success in launching their new flights from Lisbon to JFK - the first gateway to the United States. "he adds.
In all, TAP is adding 30 weekly flights to its US schedule, and intends to ". make the Lisbon hub (...) the preferred gateway to Europe for North American travellers" .
