Posted on 18 February 2021.
TAP Air Portugal has announced the suspension of 93% of its international operations, effective February 18 to March 30, above the 73% reduction previously forecast.
TAP chairman of the Board of Directors, Miguel Frasquilho and the chairman of the Executive Committee, Ramiro Sequeira, informed that, given the new COVID’19 travel restrictions and “a further drop in demand,” TAP decided “to suspend 93% of the total of its operation.” As a result, TAP anticipates to lay off 458 pilots.
It was also stated that TAP will maintain most domestic flights such as connections between Lisbon, Porto, Madeira and the Azores, and destinations with large Portuguese communities.
Health Minister-designate, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu
Minister-designate of Health, Kweku Agyeman-Manu, has revealed that a lot of Western countries among others, are chasing Ghana for nurses.
The Health Minister in President Nana Akufo-Addo’s first term made the revelation during his vetting by the Appointments Committee of Parliament on Wednesday, 10 February 2021 after a member of the committee, Mr James Agalga, demanded to know why Ghana, despite not having enough health professionals, exported some nurses to Trinidad & Tobago as well as Barbados.
“I will say bilateral relations for diplomacy, just like we receive Chinese and other foreigners, I believe our President stretched his hand to also help our neighbours who needed some support. That is the significant thing”, Mr Agyeman-Manu mentioned as the primary reason.
MIAMI – The new generation of Airbus A321LR aircraft started off the new year with some fancy flying by Azores Airlines (S4). There airline’s craft completed a record nine-hour, 49-minute flight between Lisbon Humberto Delgado Airport in Portugal (LIS) and Bogotá El Dorado International Airport (BOG) in Colombia.
That flight entered the record books as the longest flight duration operated by the an A321LR in commercial operation. The return flight from Bogotá to Lisbon took 9 hours and 20 minutes, thus becoming the second-longest such flight.
On Friday, the airline confirmed the record with a Twitter message that said,“SATA Azores Airlines is happy to confirm that it has performed the longest flight duration ever recorded in the Airbus A321LR Neo fleet! A 09H49M direct flight between Lisbon and Bogotá. This achievement proved how versatile and efficient can be the airline’s new aircraft.”
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By David Kaminski-Morrow2020-12-14T12:53:00+00:00
Azorean carrier SATA Air Acores is facing the prospect of substantial restructuring after European regulators declared that a previous government’s capital injections to the company amounted to illegal state aid.
The Portuguese archipelago’s secretary for finance, Joaquim Bastos e Silva, has disclosed during a legislative assembly that nearly €73 million ($89 million) in support – put in place during 2017-20 – breached European Union rules, because prior approval was not obtained.
“SATA must return this huge amount to the [regional community] and this has to be done before any negotiations about urgent restructuring,” he says.
The European Commission had approved, in August, an urgent rescue package for SATA including €133 million in liquidity support.