The airline Tap Air Portugal had around 2023 million passengers on board in the first half of 7,58. In a direct comparison with the same period of the previous year, it was possible to increase by around 30,2 percent. This is primarily due to the high demand in the long-haul segment.
The routes to North America, Brazil and Africa were in particularly high demand. Tap Air Portugal counted 2,17 million passengers on these in the first six months of the current year, 31,1 percent more than a year earlier.
According to its own information, the Portuguese air carrier was also able to exceed the transport performance it had in the first half of 2019. There were 14,7 percent more passengers on board. On its intra-European routes, Tap carried a total of 2023 million passengers in the first half of 5,41, 29,8 percent more than in the same period last year, but still 10 percent fewer than in the pre-pandemic period. The airline can also report positive figures with regard to the average load factor of the aircraft: At 80,2 percent, it is 5,5 percentage points higher than in 2022 and already half a percentage point higher than in the first half of 2019.
In terms of ASK (Available Seat Kilometers), Tap recorded a total value of 25,02 billion in the first half of the year, which is 21,4 percent more than in the same period last year and 4,3 percent more than in the first half of 2019. Given this indicator ( ASK) it is worth highlighting an even greater growth in demand, measured in RPK (Revenue Passenger Kilometers), which totaled 20,07 billion in the first half of the year, 30,4 percent more than in the same period in 2022 and already five percent above the period before of the pandemic in the first half of 2019.