TAM, TAP Announce Partnership

TAM and TAP Portugal, a Star Alliance member, are executing today a Memorandum of Agreement establishing a comprehensive alliance that comprises several areas, taking advantage of the synergies arising from their respective networks, products and services in the routes connecting Brazil and Portugal.

By next July, the companies will implement a codeshare, which will translate into a significant increase of flight options for passengers, as well as into the linkage of the companies’ mileage programs, TAM’s Fidelidade and TAP’s Victoria.

For TAM, the agreement will allow the commercialization of TAP’s flights operated between Brazil and Portugal (Lisbon, Porto, Faro and Funchal), strengthening TAM’s position in the international market with
European Leisure passengers traveling mainly to the northeastern Brazil.

On the other hand, for TAP, it will involve domestic destinations operated by TAM to several Brazilian capitals and cities such as Belem, Manaus, Sao Luiz, Ilheus, Porto Seguro, Campo Grande, Cuiaba, Aracaju, Vitoria, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Goiania, Florianopolis, Joao Pessoa, Maceio, Navegantes, Porto Alegre and Foz do Iguacu, among others, in addition to cities in South America (Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile).

TAM and TAP also intend to extend cooperation to other international routes operated by both companies from their hubs, subject to the authorization of the involved countries.