Portugália Airlines is an enterprise that operates in the commercial aviation market in Portugal and in other countries, being established in 1988 and started its first flight in July 1990, with a connection from Lisboa to Porto, on the same day that began the route Lisbon-Faro.
In Portugal, the enterprise makes travels between the destinations of Lisbon, Porto, Faro, the archipelago of Açores and of Madeira. From June 1992, it began its international expansion, with the realization of regular flights to Cologne, Turin and Strasbourg.
With the full liberalization of the European airspace in January 1993, Portugália Airlines continued its expansion, adding in the years that followed in its route map, the cities of Madrid, Brussels Mulhouse / Basel, Hannover and Stuttgart. In April 1997, the enterprise inaugurated seven new destinations of the Iberian Peninsula and in the United Kingdom, which are, Barcelona, Bilbao, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Valencia, Palma de Mallorca and Manchester.
Between 1998 and 1999, there was the enterprise expansion in the French market with the opening of five destinations to Nice, Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux and Toulouse. Also in 1999, following a code-share agreement with the Moroccan Company Regional Air Lines, it was added the route from Casablanca, having been constituted as the first non-European destination of the enterprise.
In mid-2007, Portugalia Airlines, integrated the Group TAP and took a new business model, leaving to work independently in the regional market and to work through the logic of the Group, through the rental of aircraft to TAP.
Despite the existing contractual relationship between the two enterprises, Portugália Airlines is an independent enterprise of TAP, keeping independent legal identities in the same Group.
PGA – Portugália Airlines
Aeroporto de Lisboa
Rua C – Edifício 70
1749-078 Lisboa Portugal
Telephone- + (351) 21 842 55 00
Fax- + (351) 21 842 56 25
E-mail geral- comunicacao@pga.pt
