{"id":196144,"date":"2025-04-06T02:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/16-daily-south-america-tap-air-portugal-buy\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T02:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T16:00:15","slug":"up-to-16-daily-flights-to-south-america-why-europes-airlines-want-to-buy-tap-air-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=196144","title":{"rendered":"Up To 16 Daily Flights To South America: Why Europe&#8217;s Airlines Want To Buy TAP Air Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255379\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/tap-air-portugal\/\"  >TAP Air Portugal<\/a><\/span> is seemingly the next target for Europe&#8217;s larger airline groups, namely Lufthansa, Air France-KLM and the International Airlines Group (IAG). The reasons may not be immediately clear: the Portuguese flag carrier does not have a particularly strong presence in the European domestic market, at least compared to its possible buyers, and offers very little to complement existing long-haul networks to high-yielding North American destinations. Instead, several reasons explain why TAP might be of value to new European airlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lufthansa, Air France-KLM, and IAG have all expressed interest in TAP Air Portugal. Here&#8217;s one main reason why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1132,396,13240,1950,734,688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-france-klm","category-aircraft","category-commercial-aviation","category-international-airlines-group","category-lufthansa","category-tap-air-portugal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196146,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196144\/revisions\/196146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}