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TAP Air Portugal in a nutshell
TAP Air Portugal is the national flag carrier of Portugal. They are based and have their main hub at Lisbon LIS Airport, but also operate many routes from nearby Porto OPO Airport. They were founded in 1945 and have been part of the Star Alliance since 2005. They currently operate a fleet of just under 100 aircraft, mostly Airbus.
The acronym TAP stands for Transportes Aéreos Portugueses.
TAP offers convenient connections to mainland and island Portugal and North Africa. In recent years, it has also increased its connections to the United States and Latin America.
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Ala
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Please does anyone know how big the change in flight time has to be for me to cancel and get a refund? TAP has been pushing my departure back in increments of about 10-15 minutes, but they never even inform me by email (I always find out randomly when I look at my booking), nor do they want to confirm it in any way. I'd quite like to cancel the whole thing.
Eda Novak
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5h and more
Seconds since the air crash at Křivoklát. The Portuguese Airbus was only a few hundred metres above the ground - Zdopravy.cz
Storm in a glass of water.
Without adding to the drama, it seems to me that this is an interesting incident, which doesn't happen very often in Prague at a relatively simple landing airport (???).
I've read a couple of statements from various pilots that they haven't had to use the terrain warning system in practice their whole career (probably common in the simulator, but we're talking about quite normal operations).
Great that it works and that the extra crew managed to react and pick it up. But some previous chain of errors was probably there and the extra one was enough (maybe a late reaction or some confusion or a really big hill in front of them, which we don't have much of in the Czech Republic near landing corridors ??)....
For me, proof that those modern planes really work and can correct human errors or contribute a lot to it (interesting that the system probably doesn't start lifting the plane itself and waits to see if the pilot really lifts it? Wouldn't it be safer to lift it automatically without delay?) It must be a hell of a stress for the pilot, and every extra second of communication and other misunderstandings between pilots can be crucial.
Well, just imagine how such traffic pilots work. Nowadays it's all automation and they bite the bullet. Same planes, same routes, day after day... depression, addictions, self-harm, suicidal thoughts.
Yeah, Jirmus could tell the story. He dozed off for a while, and when he woke up, there were fighter jets all around him.