TAP Portugal

✅ Trip Verified | Lisbon to London. This is my 4th flight and the last - thank god. Both times at Lisbon airport, the staff at the gate are very unpleasant to deal with. Just now I was waiting, the check in pressure me to check my hand luggage. Even though I told them that this is not the first time. Avoid

Not Verified | London to Lisbon. A330 doing a short euro routing in business class and the seats were fine for a 2hr hop to Lisbon but I'd not want to do a long haul overnight flight, seats were way too narrow for me. No entertainment on screens at all, not even route map, crew told me that TAP are not allowed to have any IFE on European routes? Major problem was booking economy flights (not cheap) then purchasing specific seats, purchasing baggage and then bidding for a business class upgrade on the TAP website. Bids both outbound and inbound were accepted but whereas TAP provide for free seat reservations and baggage in Executive Class, they refused to give me a refund for either seats or baggage after my upgrade bids were accepted - they said I could transfer my seat reservation fees to another TAP flight within 12 months. TAP relied on rather vague general terms and conditions, stating that the fare rules of the class you purchased apply even in the event of an upgrade, to refuse a refund. Pretty poor since those T&C's generally relate to itinerary changes/cancellations/pax changes etc. Seems TAP are happy to accept lots of paid add ons to a basic fare and then refuse to accept that the bid for a successful upgrade should cancel all of this out and a refund given. I'm not a frequent flyer with TAP and will be even less frequent after this pretty shabby experience. Once bitten, twice shy, I'd never book seats or baggage again if I was going to bid for Executive Class, but probably not on this route and I'm unlikely to want to fly with them long haul. Word of caution, TAP use the Star Alliance Lounge in LHR - lovely. The TAP lounge in Lisbon is nice, great food etc but is super crowded mid afternoon and the views of the apron are not as good as the ANA lounge next door.

Not Verified | Lisbon to Ponta Delgada. Most unhelpful airline I’ve experienced. So upset I can’t even begin to explain. Don’t fly with them if you wish to have helpful people getting you on a flight on time. Also don’t trust the “online check in”. Save your money and time and do not use this airline.

✅ Trip Verified | Lisbon to Frankfurt. Uneventful flight. As it often happens, the flight was a slightly late, but we caught up on the way. Staff were nice and food was was OK, I do miss the little juice bottles and the Portuguese "salame" cake, though! Check on was nice and swift too.

✅ Trip Verified | Berlin to Lisbon. We pre selected our business class seats on our flight and when we got on the airplane it was not set up as was selected online when selecting the seats, there were no business class seats. They had economy seats with a little more space. No special treatment at all. At check in they switched your seat assignments and then you find out why. Would never spend a dime on upgrades with this airline. No welcome drink.

✅ Trip Verified | This was an international flight and what was supposed to be a enjoyable vacation with my girlfriend turned into a nightmare within the first 24 hours. The flight was scheduled to depart from Miami on Friday and arrive in Madrid at 8.35 am, with a layover in Lisbon. According to the pilot, although we were boarded and on the plane in Miami at the correct time, we were delayed about 45 minutes because we were “waiting for a flight plan”. Mind you, the plane was originally scheduled to land in Lisbon in the morning at 5.20 am, with the connecting flight to Madrid leaving only an hour later at 6.20 am. Even without the delay, it would have been damn near impossible to get to that connecting flight before they closed the doors. We had to exit the plane outside of a gate and catch a bus to the terminal, then go through passport check and then go through another round of security. There was no way we would have been able to get through that in time to make the flight, so therefore they sold us an impossible connecting flight. Do not purchase a ticket with a connecting flight with TAP Portugal. Even 30 minutes before we arrived, we politely spoke to flight attendants about our situation and asked if people catching that flight to Madrid could exit the plane first in order to make it on time. The flight attendants were rude and replied that we would have to deal with that problem with the airport employees when we land. Once we landed, because of the delay, there was no time to get to our connecting flight and there were several others (and I mean several as in 20+) on the same plane that also missed their connecting flights, causing a chaos upon arrival of people scrambling to get flights changed. It wasn’t until 8.50 am, 3 hours after landing, that we were serviced and put on a new flight to Madrid. Let me also inform you that we had scheduled and bought a non-refundable, non-exchangable train ride from Madrid at 3.30, which cost us $200. The plan was to spend the morning in Madrid and then head to Barcelona that afternoon. The agent was able to give us a new flight to Madrid, however it was boarding when she informed us this was going to be our new flight so we had to run across the terminal to catch the flight! Before we ran to our gate, we asked the agent if our bags were going to make it and she replied “Yes they will.” We asked her if she was sure and she replied “Yes. I am working on that now.” So we get on the 9.20 flight only to get to Madrid and find out that our bags did not make it on board. Our checked bags had all of our clothing and toiletries inside so now we’re in a foreign country with nothing but the clothes on our backs and our personal items which only contained things like electronics and school work (me and my girlfriend are students). At this point my girlfriend is crying and we are only informed that our bags may get delivered to our hotel. There was no promise on when nor whether it would actually happen, leaving us anxious. Traveling with TAP Portugal has been an absolute disaster and it was my girlfriend's first time traveling overseas. Their employees were rude, the scheduling/planning was unorganized, and there seemed to be nobody willing to help our situation.

✅ Trip Verified | 27 minutes late. Was seated at the very back of the plane, no legroom at all. Flight attendant very rispidly told me to seat down, in front of all passengers, while I was trying to take a blanket as the cabin was freezing cold. There was an emergency on board and the cabin crew acted professionally.

✅ Trip Verified | Lisbon to Funchal. Chaotic bus boarding of the plane with elderly passengers entering the aircraft at the front door but being seated at the back of the plane while passengers boarding through the back were mostly seated at the front seats. Operated by an Aigle Azur aircraft.

✅ Trip Verified | Madrid - Lisbon, Porto-Lisbon-Faro and then Lisbon to Madrid. The international flights were in their A321 planes, which have non reclining seats and poor legroom. They are very punctual, the staff is nice and helpful, their pilots are excellent. Meals are under average. The domestic flights between Porto, Lisbon and Faro were with Portugalia, which is a totally different story. The flights were on Embraer E-195 planes, upholstered, reclining seats with large legroom, two abreast, great service, staff is really nice, pilots great, above average meals and snacks. The points awarded in this review are mostly good because of Portugalia.

✅ Trip Verified | Don't use this airline! I paid for a seat for my daughter to fly from Rome to Newark. She received emails to confirm her seat. She arrived at the ticketing counter and they said her seat had been canceled and we would have to repurchase the same ticket I already paid for. So basically all the money I paid for the original ticket was wasted because they wanted more than twice as much for the exact same seat we already paid for. I never received any credit or refund. The ticketing agent on the phone was rude. I asked to speak with a supervisor and was told, supervisors do not speak with customers. They expected me to pay twice as much for the same seat I already paid for. I was beside myself. I found a better airline (wasn't hard, every airline is better). Won't be booking a flight on TAP Portugal ever again!