TAP starts daily flights from Lisbon to New York

TAP Portugal, one of the world’s favourite airlines has begun daily flights from Lisbon to New York – John F. Kennedy (JFK), one of the U.S.' busiest airports, with the most international traffic. It is also the home airport for JetBlue Airways.  

A release from the airline said “As recently announced, TAP and the North America-based JetBlue have recently established commercial ties, which include a code-share allowing TAP to provide Customers with convenient flight options to as many as 34 U.S. destinations, with seamless connections through JetBlue’s operations in New York – JFK and  Boston Logan”.

It said the inauguration of this new route to New York-JFK which begun from July 1, this year, along with last month's start of operations to Boston, on June 11, allowed TAP to offer enhanced services to customers, with direct flights from Portugal to four major gateways within the USA: Boston, Miami, New York-JFK, and Newark, which also have direct services departing from both Lisbon and Porto.

“In addition to the increase of the number of flights to the USA and the inauguration of those two new destinations, TAP now offers Customers on the Boston and JFK route a new Executive Class cabin with  20 full-flat seats from Stelia Solstys, plus new slim-line Zim EC01 seats in the other cabins, now with a 34’’ seat pitch in Economy Plus and a 31” pitch in Economy”, the release said.  

According to the release “Passengers will also enjoy the most advanced audio and visual systems using the most up-to-date Panasonic EX-3 in-flight individual on-demand entertainment system”.