TAP Portugal review by Leonid

During whole summer season starting with May TAP was cancelling several inside EU flights per day. This is with tickets for these flights sold, passengers in the airport standing at the boarding gates ready to board. Some days 2 flights per day, some - 4 (like on August 3rd when we were supposed to fly Lisbon - Frankfurt), on 20th of October they cancelled 20. "Technical reason" is the explanation. Conversation is about hundreds of flights involving thousands of passengers. They give everyone boarding passes for the next days thus making remaining flights more packed and correspondingly save on fuel, airport fees and crews for flights they cancel. They give accommodation in lousy hotel in Lisbon (fact that they can put everyone into same hotel confirms these cancellations were pre-planned and agreement with hotel was made beforehand). But they don't pay compensations of euro 400 - 600 per passenger they are bound to pay due to EU-legislation. I am sure TAP calls it "business optimization". While everywhere else it is called dishonest business practices and people are going to prison for doing things like this. There is no more dishonest and disgusting airline than TAP. Stay away, if you can.