TAP Portugal

Not Verified | Appalling, if not fraudulent, customer service. Like other people have described here, I have spent hours on numerous support calls trying to get my refund for a too late cancelled flight in June. My letter which by European law has to be answered within two weeks has been ignored to date. On the phone they keep promising to deal with it “next week”, and nothing happens every single time. This seems like a deliberate scheme. I really do usually not wish with the worst for others, but with such poor customer service (I did deal with other airlines that handled this difficult situation much better and more professionally) over many months I do think maybe it is for the better if some airlines go out of business and get replaced by better competitors and services.

✅ Trip Verified | Check-in in business class was quick, the attendant asks for proof of the RT-PCR test with a negative result for COVID-19, as well as the residence / citizenship card in Portugal or European passport.  And he warned us that we would have to present the negative test voucher again at the boarding gate. Economy class boarding is done through a gate and business class boarding is done through another gate, next to each other. We had to show again the negative test for COVID-19. The business class was packed. The lavatories / toilets at the front of the plane are forbidden to passengers, they can only be used by the crew. The TAP business class on this A330/900 aircraft has a 1-2-1 configuration. There were 3 hot options for dinner: a pasta, a fish and chicken. Starter and dessert are the same, regardless of the hot dish option. The armchair reclines completely, but the space available for the legs tapers from the knee down  (I am 1.82 m, so you can have a reference). There was no turbulence, or, if there was, it was very little. The landing was 40 minutes in advance! We hired a reception service at Lisbon airport. The attendant welcomes you at the door of the plane, gives you priority for the control of the negative test of COVID-19 as well as, also for priority, for passport control. Then accompany you to the conveyor belt, to collect luggage and, finally, to transport to the residence / hotel.

✅ Trip Verified | I'm extremely disappointed with TAP. I booked with them because I trusted them but I was wrong. I had a flight booked with them from Porto to Heathrow, they decided to change it and do Porto-Lisbon-Heathrow. And then just before we get into the plane they decide that we needed to leave our hand luggage with them because the flight was full, I told them about my flight connection asked them if they could take priority in people that were doing connection and they just did not care and said that I couldn't take my bag with me and that my bag would go straight to London. I arrived in London but my bag and the bags from around fifteen more people that did the connection didn't arrive, this is not an acceptable service for a company like TAP. Very disappointed with the company, just hope that they actually find my bag and bring it without anything missing.

✅ Trip Verified | Please read this and beware. Purchased economy tickets but due to covid restrictions was unable to travel. Ok it was only £350 for 2 tickets but their response was unbelievable. Hours in call queues, on 3 separate occasions received 3 different replies, customer care don't have a clue what the policies are and change depending on who you talk to. Basically my options were £50 refund, if you wait 3 month or flight change costing £100 each in charges. I will never fly TAP again.

✅ Trip Verified | Unjust and insulting refund of 15% of a ticket that was unusable due to worldwide pandemic. Contacted TAP in person, via mail, via Facebook, via Twitter, via Skype, via their website, repeatedly over the last many months, without a reply apart from standard texts. I received the same answer as via the various email communications of before (those that were answered), that I should have read the terms and conditions - something that is clearly and reasonably not applicable during a worldwide pandemic. Because of emergency COVID measures worldwide beyond my reasonable control I am unable to get a visa to travel from the USA to Europe. The refund offered was 80USD out of 570USD, 14 percent!

✅ Trip Verified | Probably I faced the worse customer experience in the World. My flight has been cancelled, I got absolutly no notification, after doing the PCR test, for 100 euros, printing the boarding pass, paying 2 taxis, get to the airport to be told that my flight has been cancelled, I got absolutely no alternative no possibilities specially that i was doing a transit in Lisbon and the first flight has not been cancelled, it was the second one, I asked for a possibility to book another flight from Lisbon and nothing, and even worse I was told to call the customer service to ask for having my money back! I called the center and they gave me another number. I called the other number and got no response its always busy. I feel upset, disappointed and with no right as customer.

✅ Trip Verified | This airline made me miss my vacation to Paris twice and used covid-19 restriction as an excuse even though I had all valid documents to get on board. I was issued a third flight in replacement of my second purchased flight for December. This ticket was issued to me by the Manager of TAP AIR PORTUGAL at Dulles airport in Washington DC. Now in December, I am getting ready to fly and call them to make sure that I have all the necessary documents, the representative says that there is no flight schedule with my name. I have attached the forwarded copy of the ticket that was issued to me by the manager on site. But they are telling me to reach out to the travel agency when I had no transaction made with the travel agency for my December 24th flight. This company is the most professionally inept, employees are clueless and arrogant. This is my second vacation that I am now going to miss because of their lack of professionalism . Don't waste your time riding on with this airline, they are cheap but it comes at a vey high price!

✅ Trip Verified | This airline changed my flight by several days, wouldn't let me cancel and receive a refund outright, and I have been waiting for my partial refund for over two months. Completely unacceptable, and borderline unlawful. Beware of giving any money to this airline as they clearly do not follow moral business practices and they see no problem with stealing people's money.

✅ Trip Verified | Waiting 3 months for my refund for flights that were cancelled by TAP. It was completely understandable that there was a delay in issuing refunds in March and April this year. However, we have all now been living with Covid for 9 months and one would image that the volume of airline refunds has very much diminished. Back in September, Tap cancelled my flights from Barcelona to Cancun due to depart in January 2021. I asked for a refund at that point instead of a voucher and was told it would be processed promptly. Long story short, after several follow ups, I'm still waiting. I was told on the call today that they had no information and to simply wait a little longer. When Covid is over I hope everyone remembers how bad Customer Service to TAP Portugal really is.

✅ Trip Verified | One of the most uncomfortable flights of my life. I have flown Ryanair, easyjet and other low cost airlines but I can never remember being quite so uncomfortable on any flight before. It's truly depressing that an airline would invest in new equipment and do such a bad job. I think it was not just the pitch but the design of the seats, seats are quite hard, very upright and really tight legroom. I could not get comfortable in any position, I am 1.86m which is tall but not huge, there were some passengers much taller than me, I cannot imagine what the 125 minutes were like for them. No free snack, not a complaint, its the norm I guess these days but still should be noted. Plane was new, well presented, staff we nice. Really everything was ok except I felt like i was being tortured in that seat. Its not fit for purpose and now would only consider flying TAP if I felt the cost of paying for an exit seat or comfort class seat was worth it. The flight was so uncomfortable that I would not have to reconsider flying with TAP long haul as I would know their short haul product is waiting for me in Lisbon. Simply awful.